Journal of Asian Economics

1990 - 2025

Current editor(s): C. Wiemer

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Do sterilized foreign exchange interventions create money? pp. 1-16: Alexey Ponomarenko
Capital controls in emerging East Asia: How do they affect investment flows? pp. 17-38: Juthathip Jongwanich
Does microcredit increase household food consumption? A study of rural Vietnam pp. 39-51: Chung Thanh Phan, Sizhong Sun, Zhang-Yue Zhou and Rabiul Beg
Agglomeration economies in Vietnam: A firm-level analysis pp. 52-64: Toshitaka Gokan, Ikuo Kuroiwa and Kentaro Nakajima
Assembly trade and technological catch-up: Evidence from electronics firms in China pp. 65-77: Ya-Pin Lyu, Hui-Lin Lin, Chih-Chin Ho and Chih-Hai Yang

Effects of bank capital on liquidity creation and business diversification: Evidence from Malaysia pp. 1-19: Moau Yong Toh
The role of power prices in structural transformation: Evidence from the Philippines pp. 20-33: Majah-Leah Ravago, Arlan Zandro Brucal, James Roumasset and Jan Carlo Punongbayan
Price convergence among Indian cities: The role of linguistic differences, topography, and aggregation pp. 34-50: Erick M. Kitenge and Akm Morshed
Modelling the real yen–dollar rate and inflation dynamics based on international parity conditions pp. 51-64: Synne S. Almaas and Takamitsu Kurita
India’s external commercial borrowing: Pulled by domestic fundamentals or pushed by global conditions? pp. 65-77: Abhisek Sur, Partha Ray and Amarendu Nandy

Financial performance and corporate governance in microfinance: Evidence from Asia pp. 1-13: Sana Iqbal, Ahmad Nawaz and Sadaf Ehsan
Monetary policy transmission through the bank lending channel in Thailand pp. 14-32: Itthipong Mahathanaseth and Loren W. Tauer
Spillovers from foreign direct investment in services: Evidence at sub-sectoral level for the Asia-Pacific pp. 33-44: Nadia Doytch and Merih Uctum
Does a financial accelerator improve forecasts during financial crises? Evidence from Japan with prediction-pooling methods pp. 45-68: Ryo Hasumi, Hirokuni Iiboshi, Tatsuyoshi Matsumae and Daisuke Nakamura
What’s in a definition? A study on the suitability of the current urban definition in India through its employment guarantee programme pp. 69-84: Vaidehi Tandel, Komal Hiranandani and Mudit Kapoor
Behavior of foreign investors in the Malaysian stock market in times of crisis: A nonlinear approach pp. 85-100: Tolga Omay and Perihan Iren

Commonality in liquidity: Evidence from India’s National Stock Exchange pp. 1-15: Gaurav Kumar and Arun Kumar Misra
Decomposing Japanese municipal bond spreads: Default and liquidity premiums in times of crisis pp. 16-28: Takahiro Hattori
Quantile relationships between standard, diffusion and jump betas across Japanese banks pp. 29-47: Biplob Chowdhury, Nagaratnam Jeyasreedharan and Mardi Dungey
Integration of ASEAN banking sector stocks pp. 48-60: Jones Odei-Mensah and Gamini Premaratne
Monetary policy transmission in systemically important economies and China’s impact pp. 61-79: Domenico Lombardi, Pierre Siklos and Xiangyou Xie

Capital structure decisions in a highly dollarized economy: Evidence from Cambodian firms pp. 1-18: Hidenobu Okuda and Daiju Aiba
Foreign currency borrowing and risk-hedging behavior: Evidence from Cambodian households pp. 19-35: Daiju Aiba, Ken Odajima and Vouthy Khou
Macroeconomic impact of Korean reunification: The role of factor market opening pp. 36-58: Weh-Sol Moon, Sung Min Mun and Jong-Kyu Lee
Job creation and destruction in Japan: Evidence from division-level employment data pp. 59-71: Yang Liu
Generals in defense of allocation: Coups and military budgets in Thailand pp. 72-78: Akihiko Kawaura

Consumption behavior of migrant households in Vietnam: Remittances, duration of stay, and the household registration system pp. 1-12: Giang Nguyen
Adjustment to negative price shocks by a commodity exporting economy: Does exchange rate flexibility resolve a balance of payments crisis? pp. 13-35: Ryota Nakatani
News and expected returns in East Asian equity markets: The RV-GARCHM model pp. 36-52: Vance Martin, Chrismin Tang and Wenying Yao
Call auction frequency and market quality: Evidence from the Taiwan Stock Exchange pp. 53-62: Mia Twu and Jianxin Wang

Over-indebtedness and its persistence in rural households in Thailand and Vietnam pp. 1-23: Bezawit Chichaibelu and Hermann Waibel
Infrastructure investment in China: A model of local government choice under land financing pp. 24-35: Shen Guo and Yingying Shi
The implications of China’s slowdown for international trade pp. 36-47: Patrick Blagrave and Esteban Vesperoni
The rise of the middle class and economic growth in ASEAN pp. 48-58: Markus Brueckner, Era Dabla-Norris, Mark Gradstein and Daniel Lederman

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

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

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