SMU Professor of Economics Su Liangjun was featured in an article where he shared his research interests. In addition to developing new techniques in econometrics to provide a more realistic understanding of the economy, Professor Su also endeavours to remove as many assumptions as possible from econometric models so that they produce a more realistic explanation of the economy. He said that the full complexity of economics and human behaviour cannot be analysed all at once, so they have to “simplify the behaviour to fit it into models”.