Journal of Asian Economics

1990 - 2025

Current editor(s): C. Wiemer

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2018, volume 55, articles C

Introduction: Trade, Industrialization, and Structural Reform in Southeast Asia pp. 1-3

Tomoo Kikuchi

The effects of Mega-Regional Trade Agreements on Vietnam pp. 4-19

Tomoo Kikuchi, Kensuke Yanagida and Huong Vo

The welfare and sectoral adjustment effects of mega-regional trade agreements on ASEAN countries pp. 20-32

Hiro Lee and Ken Itakura

Trade efficiency, free trade agreements and rules of origin pp. 33-41

Thang Doan and Yuqing Xing

State-owned enterprise reform in Vietnam: A dynamic CGE analysis pp. 42-57

Peter Minor, Terrie Walmsley and Anna Strutt

Investigating ASEAN’s electronic and labor-Intensive exports pp. 58-70

Willem Thorbecke

Internationalization and the growth of Vietnamese micro, small, and medium sized enterprises: Evidence from panel quantile regressions pp. 71-83

Trinh Long and Ha Doan

China’s belt and road initiative: A preliminary quantitative assessment pp. 84-92

Fan Zhai

2018, volume 54, articles C

Oil price fluctuations and the small open economies of Southeast Asia: An analysis using vector autoregression with block exogeneity pp. 1-21

Tuan Khai Vu and Hayato Nakata

Asia-Pacific regional integration index: Construction, interpretation, and comparison pp. 22-38

Hyeon-seung Huh and Cyn-Young Park

China’s rapid growth and real exchange rate appreciation: Measuring the Balassa-Samuelson effect pp. 39-52

Hiroyuki Imai

Diffusion of development initiatives in a southern Lao community: An agent based evaluation pp. 53-68

Andrea Chareunsy

Speculative activity and returns volatility of Chinese agricultural commodity futures pp. 69-91

Martin T. Bohl, Pierre Siklos and Claudia Wellenreuther

2017, volume 53, articles C

Fiscal and social costs of recovery programs for an earthquake disaster in northern Taiwan pp. 1-17

Michael Huang and Nobuhiro Hosoe

Public sector enterprise disinvestment in India: Efficiency gains in a political context pp. 18-36

Ritika Jain

Does Money Have a Role in Monetary Policy for Price Stability under Inflation Targeting in Thailand? pp. 37-55

Akhand Hossain and Popkarn Arwatchanakarn

Japan’s quantitative monetary easing policy: Effect on the level and volatility of yield spreads pp. 56-66

Kunihiro Hanabusa

2017, volume 52, articles C

The development of manufacturing: Unintended consequence pp. 1-11

Richard Grabowski and Sharmistha Self

The poverty implications of alternative tax reforms: Results from a numerical application to Pakistan pp. 12-31

Andrew Feltenstein, Carolina Mejia, David Newhouse and Gohar Sedrakyan

The long and short of commodity tails and their relationship to Asian equity markets pp. 32-44

Robert Powell, Duc H. Vo, Thach Pham and Abhay K. Singh

Can firms with political connections borrow more than those without? Evidence from firm-level data for Indonesia pp. 45-55

Jiangtao Fu, Daichi Shimamoto and Yasuyuki Todo

The origin of FDI and domestic firms’ productivity—Evidence from Vietnam pp. 56-76

Bin Ni, Mariana Spatareanu, Vlad Manole, Tsunehiro Otsuki and Hiroyuki Yamada

2017, volume 51, articles C

Effects of foreign and domestic economic policy uncertainty shocks on South Korea pp. 1-11

Chak Hung Jack Cheng

Re-examining foreign direct investment, exports, and economic growth in asian economies using a bootstrap ARDL test for cointegration pp. 12-22

Soo Khoon Goh, Chung Yan Sam and Robert McNown

Drivers of India’s current account deficits, with implications for ameliorating them pp. 23-32

Bhavesh Garg and K.P. Prabheesh

Business reforms and total factor productivity in Vietnamese manufacturing pp. 33-42

Huong Quynh Nguyen

2017, volume 50, articles C

Trade credit behavior of Korean small and medium sized enterprises during the 1997 financial crisis pp. 1-13

Junghwan Hyun

United States-China two-way direct investment: Opportunities and challenges pp. 14-26

David Dollar

How will financial liberalization change the Chinese economy? Lessons from middle-income countries pp. 27-45

Yiping Huang and Yang Ji

The internal dynamic of Indian economic growth pp. 46-61

Pulapre Balakrishnan, Mausumi Das and M. Parameswaran

Nonlinear dependence in exchange rate returns: How do emerging Asian currencies compare with major currencies? pp. 62-72

Muammer Wali, Felix Chan and Meher Manzur

2017, volume 49, articles C

An impact evaluation of investment in infrastructure: The case of a railway connection in Uzbekistan pp. 1-11

Naoyuki Yoshino and Umid Abidhadjaev

China's investment and rate of return on capital revisited pp. 12-25

Ya Tang, Jianguo Xu and Xun Zhang

The role of infrastructure in China’s regional economic growth pp. 26-41

Yingying Shi, Shen Guo and Puyang Sun

Remittances, social security, and the crowding-out effect: Evidence from Vietnam pp. 42-59

Hai Anh La and Ying Xu

Monetary policy transmission in Bangladesh: Exploring the lending channel pp. 60-80

Sadia Afrin

2017, volume 48, articles C

Editorial: Trade, growth and economic inequality in the Asia-Pacific region pp. 1-5

Theresa Greaney and Baybars Karacaovali

Economic growth and income inequality in the Asia-Pacific region: A comparative study of China, Japan, South Korea, and the United States pp. 6-22

Yiwen Yang and Theresa Greaney

Industrialization and poverty reduction in East Asia: Internal labor movements matter pp. 23-37

Fukunari Kimura and Mateus Silva Chang

International trade and within-sector wage inequality: The case of South Korea pp. 38-47

Siwook Lee

Wage inequality dynamics and trade exposure in South Korea pp. 48-65

Baybars Karacaovali and Chrysostomos Tabakis

Upstreamness, exports, and wage inequality: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing data pp. 66-74

Bo Chen

ICT, offshoring, and the demand for part-time workers: The case of Japanese manufacturing pp. 75-86

Kozo Kiyota and Sawako Maruyama

Foreign direct investment and temporary workers in Japan pp. 87-99

Ayumu Tanaka

Import competition from and offshoring to low-income countries: Implications for employment and wages at U.S. domestic manufacturers pp. 100-119

Fariha Kamal and Mary E. Lovely

Multinational enterprises and regional inequality in China pp. 120-133

Theresa Greaney and Yao Li

FDI and inequality in Vietnam: An approach with census data pp. 134-147

John McLaren and Myunghwan Yoo

Pollution control and foreign firms’ exit behavior in China pp. 148-159

Theresa Greaney, Yao Li and Dongmei Tu

2016, volume 47, articles C

Challenges to small and medium-size businesses in Myanmar: What are they and how do we know? pp. 1-22

Arie Kapteyn and Saw Htay Wah

The determinants of tax morale in Pakistan pp. 23-34

Musharraf R. Cyan, Antonios Koumpias and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

Staple food price instability and structural change: Indonesian experience pp. 35-44

Richard Grabowski and Sharmistha Self

Branch expansion and banking efficiency in Sri Lanka’s post‐conflict era pp. 45-57

Bolanda Hewa Thilakaweera, Charles Harvie and Amir Arjomandi

The impact of exports to China on Latin American growth pp. 58-66

Andre Vianna