Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy

1996 - 2025

Current editor(s): Leong Liew

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Volume 28, issue 4, 2023

The effect of gender and creativity on beauty premium on hiring decisions in Malaysia: Do male and female hirers weigh them differently? pp. 1313-1326

Kean-Siang Ch’ng and Suresh Narayanan

Bride price and household income: evidence from rural China pp. 1327-1346

Jing Li and Jun Li

Electric vehicle policy in Thailand: Limitations of product champions pp. 1347-1372

Martin Schröder

Vulnerability and the resilience against covid-19 in India pp. 1373-1391

Satya Paul

Impact of COVID-19 on ASEAN5 stock markets pp. 1392-1405

Matthew S. Yiu and Andrew Tsang

Does FDI affect environmental degradation? Examining pollution haven and pollution halo hypotheses using ARDL modelling pp. 1406-1432

Khalid Kisswani and Michel Zaitouni

Who all access private coaching in higher education and how much do they spend? Evidence from India pp. 1433-1455

Pradeep Kumar Choudhury, Amit Kumar and Angrej Singh Gill

The modern service industry agglomeration and tourism efficiency in China: regional difference and influencing mechanism pp. 1456-1475

Rui Tang and Pishi Xiu

Economic policy uncertainty and firm performance: evidence from China pp. 1476-1493

Xinge Feng, Weijie Luo and Yong Wang

The Asian economy: contemporary issues and challenges pp. 1494-1496

Mohammad Zulfan Tadjoeddin

The impact of trade with ASEAN on India’s employment in industrial sector pp. 1497-1519

Devasmita Jena and Swati Saini

The welfare effects of service trade liberalization: evidence from the Chinese movie industry pp. 1520-1539

Yihong Tang, Jing Yan and Feng Yu

Potential impacts of climate change and adaptation in agriculture on poverty: the case of Nepal pp. 1540-1559

Sudarshan Chalise and Athula Naranpanawa

Are gender differences related to non-cognitive abilities? ——Evidence from China pp. 1560-1579

Hao Li, Chun Chen and Zhi Zhang

Trade openness and horizontal agricultural income inequality in Korea: focusing on sectoral income differences pp. 1580-1600

Soo-Eun Kim and Jun Ho Seok

Volume 28, issue 3, 2023

Strongmen politics and investment flows: China’s investments in Malaysia and the Philippines pp. 813-834

Alvin Camba, Terence Gomez, Richard Khaw and Kee-Cheok Cheong

Like parents, like children? Intergenerational poverty transmission in China pp. 835-854

Fan Yang, Krishna Paudel and Yao Jiang

The real consequences of financial stress: Evidence from China pp. 855-872

C. Hueng, Ping Liu and Lirong Wang

The persistence of Chinese monopoly in Indonesia's salt business and marginalisation of local salt farmers pp. 873-893

Mohamad Zaki Mahasin, Yety Rochwulaningsih and Singgih Tri Sulistiyono

Tourism and economic growth in the Pacific region: evidence from five small island economies pp. 894-921

Ronald Kumar and Peter Josef Stauvermann

The disparities in Chinese urban and rural household savings rates pp. 922-948

Dan Yang and Tianheng Wang

On the (a)symmetric effects of real exchange rate on trade flows: new evidence from US–Vietnam trade balance at the industry level pp. 949-971

Sy-Hoa Ho, Trung-Thanh Nguyen and Nguyen To-The

Growth or innovation? The impacts analysis of FDI on performance of China’s high-tech zones pp. 972-985

Chang Yang, Jin Zeng and Zhiding Zhou

Services trade in the ASEAN region and participation in GVCs pp. 986-1006

Christopher Findlay and Hein Roelfsema

Party alternation and fiscal performance—evidence from Taiwan’s local government pp. 1007-1028

Jr-Tsung Huang, Ming-Lei Chang, Authur Jin Lin and Yu-Chien Chang

SMEs’ efficiency in a transitional economy: does innovation and public support schemes matter? pp. 1029-1060

Anh-Tuan Doan, Aila Khan, Scott Holmes and Thao Tran

Are free trade agreements an enough condition to diversify and add value to exports? The case of Chile–Korea FTA pp. 1061-1086

Felipe Muñoz, Javiera Cáceres and Dorotea López

Comparative study on infrastructure and export trade of the host country and OFDI efficiency of China pp. 1087-1116

Fang-rong Ren, Xin-ge Guan, Huai-jing Zhang, Qi Fang, Hong-cheng Si and Ze Tian

Trade-restricting impacts of non-tariff measures in Bangladesh pp. 1117-1139

Mohammad Masudur Rahman and Anna Strutt

Systemic risk and macro-financial contagion in China: financial balance sheet-based network analysis pp. 1140-1173

Lixin Sun

Does FDI enhance provincial productivity? A panel data analysis in Vietnam pp. 1174-1195

Linh Thi Dieu Huynh, Hien Hoang and Hung Ngoc Tran

Determinants of inclusive growth in ASEAN pp. 1196-1228

Victoriia Alekhina and Giovanni Ganelli

Foreign direct investment effects on the distribution of regional industrial value-added in China pp. 1229-1250

Behzad Azarhoushang, Jennifer Wu and Shahryar Zaroki

The impact of Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment on the comparative advantage of the Belt and Road countries pp. 1251-1285

Yanyan Sun, Kunling Zhang and Song Zhang

Can financial education improve consumer welfare in investment markets? Evidence from China pp. 1286-1312

Yong Zhang, Xiaomeng Lu and Jing Jian Xiao

Volume 28, issue 2, 2023

How happy are people as they work in nonprofit organizations? pp. 351-373

Li-Hsuan Huang

Estimating the superstition value: why not decomposition analysis? pp. 374-389

Hock-Eam Lim, Woei-Chyuan Wong and Nur Adiana Hiau Abdullah

The impact of public spending in education and health on human development in India pp. 390-403

Martin Ruzima and P. Veerachamy

Is the Thai government revenue-spending nexus asymmetric? pp. 404-419

Komain Jiranyakul

Winners and losers in a knowledge-based economy: investigating the policy packages for an inclusive growth based on a computable general equilibrium analysis of Korea pp. 420-456

Yeongjun Yeo, Jeong-Dong Lee and Sungmoon Jung

Drivers of FDI in small states pp. 457-483

Rosa Forte and Cristiana Neves

Food delivery application user segmentation in the mobile marketing world in China pp. 484-501

Jun (Justin) Li, Mark A. Bonn, Juan Wang and Meehee Cho

Effects of remittances on household poverty and inequality in Cambodia pp. 502-526

Vatana Chea

Does foreign investment improve domestic firm productivity? Evidence from a developing country pp. 527-557

Van T. C Ha, Mark Holmes and Gazi Hassan

The impacts of trade intensity with China on carbon emissions in belt and road countries pp. 558-577

Yan Wu, Chunlai Chen and Cong Hu

Direct and spillover effects of social insurance reform: evidence from Vietnam pp. 578-598

Van-Anh Thi Tran, Kieu-Dung Nguyen, Duc-Thanh Nguyen and Duy-Dat Nguyen

Finance-led growth hypothesis for Asia: an insight from new data pp. 599-618

Abdulkareem Alhassan, Muktar Sabi Adamu and Shuaibu Sidi Safiyanu

Local government capacity and total factor productivity growth: evidence from an Asian emerging economy pp. 619-649

Su Thanh Dinh and Canh Nguyen

Natural resource curse exists in Mongolia? Focusing on budget transparency in local governments pp. 650-663

Burmaa Tsogtochir and Soyoung Park

Industrial agglomeration and the pollution haven hypothesis: evidence from Chinese prefectures pp. 664-691

Bin Chen

Impact of imitation ability on ASEAN countries' intra-industry trade: a system GMM approach pp. 692-715

Nguyen Khanh Doanh, Huy Quang Doan and Yoon Heo

Economic agglomeration and technical efficiency of small and medium-sized enterprises: evidence from Vietnam pp. 716-737

Huynh The Nguyen

Cultural heterogeneity, acquisition experience and the performance of Chinese cross-border acquisitions pp. 738-765

Lili Kang, Fei Peng and Sajid Anwar

The effects of wage spillover from foreign firms on total factor productivity: do job characteristics matter? pp. 766-785

Dadang Ramdhan

Economic viability and underemployment in India’s unorganized manufacturing firms: evidence from nationally representative surveys pp. 786-811

Anamitra Roychowdhury

Volume 28, issue 1, 2023

In Memoriam pp. 1-1

The Editors

Drivers of export competitiveness: new evidences from the manufacturing industry in Malaysia pp. 2-32

Miao Zhang and Md Aslam Mia

Interest rate term structure and the Chinese fiscal policy: a mixed frequency term structure approach pp. 33-52

Yuhuang Shang, Xuyang Zhang and Qing Wang

Liquidity constraints and family labor participation pp. 53-74

Pengpeng Yue, Aslihan Gizem Korkmaz, Zhichao Yin and Haigang Zhou

Underestimation of financial literacy and financial market participation pp. 75-100

Huichun Huang, Junli Yuan, Guanghua Lin and Jing Chi

Regional income disparities and convergence clubs in Indonesia: new district-level evidence pp. 101-132

Harry Aginta, Anang Budi Gunawan and Carlos Mendez-Guerra

A simultaneous investigation of the environmental Kuznets curve for the agricultural and industrial sectors in China pp. 133-155

Shota Moriwaki and Masayuki Shimizu

Effect of corporate income tax on investment decisions of Indian manufacturing firms pp. 156-175

Karuppiah Sankarganesh and K.R. Shanmugam

The effects of rural education on poverty in China: a spatial econometric perspective pp. 176-198

Weilin Liu, Jingdong Li and Rong Zhao

Estimates and economic analysis of informal remittances for Pakistan pp. 199-215

Khurrum S. Mughal, Muhammad Arby, Sakkhi Babar, Saddam Ilyas and Friedrich Schneider

Currency exchange under payments dollarization: converting a source of efficiency loss into a catalyst for financial development in Cambodia pp. 216-241

Koji Kubo, Vichet Sam and Yuthan Chea

The union wage premium in a segmented labor market: new evidence from Korea pp. 242-260

Hoon Choi and Raul Ramos

The impact of symmetric and asymmetric exchange rate fluctuations on demand for money in Pakistan pp. 261-283

Abdul Hannan and Tahira Ishaq

Exploring the livelihood pattern of the floating population using the SL framework: a case study of metropolitan Dhaka, Bangladesh pp. 284-313

Tanjila Afrin and Mohammad Saeed Islam

Does corporate ownership matter for innovation? pp. 314-329

Sanghoon Lee

Impact of homestead housing on the allocation of financial assets of Chinese rural households pp. 330-349

Junhui Hu, Hongfang Han, Zhaonan Zhang and Xin Wu