Journal of Asian Economics

1990 - 2025

Current editor(s): C. Wiemer

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2025, volume 97, articles C

Fertility and female mental health

Rui Guan, Hua Lei and Yan Zhi

Peer effect of fund trading and the risk of individual stock

Chuanglian Chen, Lin Yuting, Su Bowei and Yao Shujie

Health spending efficiency in developing Asia

Donna Faye Bajaro, Yothin Jinjarak, Yuho Myoda, Donghyun Park and Pilipinas Quising

Financing constraints and the export partnerships with RCEP: Evidence from manufacturing firms in China

Qing Peng, Zhenhao Chen and Jie Li

The impact of robot adoption on quality of export products: Evidence from Chinese industrial enterprises

Weiqing Li

High housing prices and low social integration of China’s new generation migrants in cities

Jing Li, Maohua Wu and Chining Zhao

Effect of foreign direct investment inflows on urbanization in Vietnam: Does environmental regulation matter?

Quynh Anh Do and Rohan Best

Are social norms an obstacle to honest behavior? Theory and experimental evidence

Keisaku Higashida, Yuki Higuchi, Mohammad Mosharraf Hossain, Mohammad Sujauddin, Ryo Takahashi and Kenta Tanaka

Impacts of international transport infrastructure: Evidence from Laotian households

Magnus Andersson, Kazunobu Hayakawa, Souknilanh Keola and Kenta Yamanouchi

Political connections and bias in ESG news

Pengfei Chu, Xiaojuan Hou and Guanxia Xie

The impacts of clan culture on private investment: Financing substitution and human capital accumulation

Yan Zhang, Xiaoyang Wang and Wenwen Zhang

China's labor market demand in the shadow of COVID-19: Evidence from an online job board

Xiangquan Zeng, Shuai Chu and Xuan Chen

Intelligent manufacturing and corporate human capital upgrade in China

Xiaofan Li, Qiaochu Wang, Dongmin Kong and Yunqing Tao

Housing prices and spousal age gap: Evidence from the chinese housing boom

Yixuan Cheng, Ruozhi Xu, Zhong Zhao and Xianqiang Zou

Why boys tend to engage in bullying behavior more frequently than girls? Evidence from China

Changhong Li and Xianlang Liu

Does ease of doing business promote renewable energy development? Evidence from 162 economies

Tianjian Yang, Peng Qian and Tianyi Lei

The impact of AI adoption on R&D productivity: Evidence from Chinese pharmaceutical manufacturing industry

Yifan Wu, Yiming Yuan and Xueyin Song

Enterprise digital transformation and investment efficiency: Empirical evidence from listed enterprises in China

Panting Guo, Jiefeng Bi and Mengnan Zhu

How artificial intelligence applications affect the total factor productivity of the service industry: Firm-level evidence from China

Xiaojun Wu and Yi Zhu

The cost of biodiversity protection: National Key Ecological Functional Zone and labor demand in China

Ruipeng Tan, Ke Hou and Huaqing Wu

Can overseas R&D improve domestic industry-university-research institutions’ cooperation?

Yunshi Cao, Meini Jiang and Jun Shen

Exchange rate pass-through in Nepal

Anil Lama, Birendra Bahadur Budha, K.P. Prabhesh and Sona Rana

The impact of government industrial funds on the innovation of SMEs in China

Yuxin Zhang and Yaodong Zhou

Exploring the influence of extreme heat on corporate energy efficiency

Xiaojuan Hou and Ruojun Xiang

Subways and scientists' productivity under the NSFC program: Evidence from China

Xuan Leng, Yichuan Zhang and Jiaxin He

The impact of robot adoption on firm’s OFDI: Evidence from China

Shuzhong Ma, Peng Wu and Chao Fang

2025, volume 96, articles C

Welfare and productivity of the Chinese regional economy under forced technology transfer in the post-intervention period of the Green Credit Policy

Eric Yan, Luke Okafor and Chi-Chur Chao

Electricity price cross-subsidies and enterprises’ green total factor productivity: Empirical evidence from Chinese industrial listed enterprises

Li Xie and Zhisheng Huang

The Belt and Road Initiative and China's diversifying food imports: A perspective on the "Five-pronged approach"

Jing Zhu, Xingyu Liu and Lijuan Cao

The role of education in career inheritance in China

Weiwei Wu, Maozhong Zhou, Lifeng Su and Jiangping Yang

Names with rare Chinese characters and mental ill-being

Huajun Wu, Zongping He and Ning Neil Yu

The inflationary impact of oil price shock in Korea: The role of inflation expectations

Seojin Lee and Young Min Kim

The effect of monetary, macroprudential policy, and their interaction on bank risk-taking in Indonesia

Hero Wonida and Sekar Utami Setiastuti

Economic development of land-border regions under ASEAN economic integration

Misa Okabe

Executives’ institutional reform experience, IP protection and R&D investment: Evidence from China's reform and opening up

Jieji Lai and Bin Liu

Time use among urban women in China at different income levels

Fenglian Du and Yunxia Zhao

How does the spatial agglomeration of human capital affect strategic innovation in China?

Haifeng Zhang and Ruitian Guo

Rules of Origin, Import of Inputs and Firm Innovation

Hua Zhou and Lingyu Wu

2024, volume 95, articles C

Social credit system construction and entrepreneurial activity: A quasi-natural experiment from China

Shuzhen Liang, Yongwei Ye and Feng Yun

Leaders’ capabilities and organizational efficiency: Evidence from the national taxation bureaucracy in China

Wenwen Zhang, Xin Wan and Binbin Tian

Government relocation and air pollution: Evidence from China

Shengfeng Lu, Yukun Sun, Hui Tian and Jing Wang

Does foreign direct investment affect domestic firms’ social security contributions?

Jue Tang, Liu Tian, Jin Feng, Pengzhou Zhu and Chao Han

The clan imprint within gender wage gap: Evidence from China

Yulin Liu and Wei Ran

Impact of city size on self-employment behavior: Evidence from Chinese migrants

Haoyu Hu, Wei Wang, Ge Xin and Fangjin Ye

Exploring the effect of digital transformation on firm resilience: Evidence from China

Yaozhi Xu, Liling Xu, Yaxin Shen and Zhigang Fan

Smart city construction and quality upgrading of export products: Evidence from China

Linhui Yu, Oujing Miao and Xuepeng Tang

How does digital technology affect export in services?

Nan Kong, Bingjie Wang, Yan Zhang and Nianli Zhou

How artificial intelligence affects international industrial transfer — Evidence from industrial robot application

Hongyuan Zhang, Yibing Ding, Jing Niu and Samuel Jung

Labour rights protection and export expansion: Evidence from SA8000 certification

Yuping Deng, Jinxiao Yang and Jiamei Liu

Food inflation and monetary policy in emerging economies

Janesh Sami and Keshmeer Makun

Possible development path for agricultural economic and trade cooperation in FTAAP: A numerical simulation

Yixuan Yin, Chenyue Luo, Jing Yang, Panyu Chen and Li Chunding

The haze reduction effect in china under the digital economy

Changming Wang, Hongwei Liao, Lei Zhu and Leihua He

International comparison of the impact of digital transformation on employment

Jing You, Xiangyu Xu, Deng Liao and Chen Lin

The impact of digitization in manufacturing on female employment and gender wage gap

Yunxia Wu, Lei Li and Yanyan Zheng

Inflation targeting and monetary policy response in India

Abhay Pratap Raghuvanshi and Wasim Ahmad

Cost of escaping air pollution: A way to prevent excessive expansion of industrial areas

I-Chun Tsai

The productivity spillover effect of foreign divestment: Evidence from Chinese industrial enterprises

Chunxiao Si and Changyuan Luo

Reducing farmland abandonment by raising women’s education levels: Evidence from China

Yongmin Luo, Shenqi Ding, Fuzheng Xiang and Lujun Wang

Data policy restrictions and cross-border E-commerce: Evidence from China

Shuzhong Ma, Sishi Huang and Peng Wu

Confucian culture, public education expenditure, and economic growth

Junbing Zhu

Does government-driven infrastructure boost green innovation? Evidence of new infrastructure plan in China

Fan Zhang, Feng Wang and Shujie Yao

Impact of heterogenous capabilities on export performance amid the digital transformation

Kyunam Kim and Hyuk Chung

Does increasing robot density exacerbate wealth inequality?

Nan Jia, Xueling Yan and Shule Yu

An aging population and sustainable government debt: The case of Korea

Kwangyong Park

Tax incentives and corporate digital transformation: Evidence from China’s accelerated depreciation policy

Qianbin Feng, Ying Ge and Lexin Zhao

The power of speed: High-speed railways and scientific research competitiveness in China

Ping Li, Yujing Wang, Meng Li and Haoyu Gao

How to guide venture capital to startups? Evidence from China's Science and Technology Innovation Board

Ruigang Bi, Zonglai Kou and Min Zhou

From ancient philosophy to modern governance: Confucian culture shaping low-carbon corporate transformation in China’s listed companies

Li Wang, Siyan Chen, Yanan Wang and Yuhan Wu

Flattening of government hierarchies and growth of farmers’ income

Caiquan Bai, Yan Zhang, Chao Wang, Qihang Xue and Chen Feng

Transport development performance with hazard-inducing variables: A frontier-based shadow pricing approach

Ruoyu He, Ruxue Dong, Ruiqi Zhu, Z.Y. Shen, Tomas Baležentis and Lixin Cui

A tale of two markets—would housing appreciation prompt insurance participation? Evidence from China’s urban elderly

Jiajun Han

Off-farm employment, farmland transfer and agricultural investment behavior: A study of joint decision-making among North China Plain farmers

Mingjun Xu, Changling Chen and Jinhua Xie

Mechanism and simulation of intensive use of urban inefficient land based on evolutionary game theory

Ze Han, Xiangzheng Deng, Zhihui Li and Xiankai Huang

Labor union effects on wage dispersion: Evidence from panel data of Japanese listed companies

Takashi Saito, Tsukasa Matsuura and Hisashi Okamoto

Does parental migration matter in access to academic high schools for left-behind children in China?

Qundi Feng and Ling Yang

The low carbon transformation of cities and corporate investment efficiency: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment

Zixuan Zhang, Zhenyu Ge and Shuhan Liu

Cross-border personnel mobility and bilateral value chain linkages: Evidence from visa liberalization in China

Shuqin Ma, Fuyao Ren, Fan Feng and Kuo Feng

Can development zones reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions of enterprises? Evidence from China

Lihua Zhang, Xinyu Chen and Zheng Xu

The information externality of public firms’ employment in the municipal corporate bond market in China

Hongling Han, Yidan Mao and Qiang Liu