Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy

1996 - 2025

Current editor(s): Leong Liew

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Volume 25, issue 4, 2020

Price premium or price discount for locally produced food products? A temporal analysis for Hawaii pp. 591-610

Yiwen Yang and PingSun Leung

Universal basic education and the vulnerability to poverty: evidence from compulsory education in rural China pp. 611-633

Yuping Yang and Xiaodong Guo

Growing (un)equal: fiscal policy and income inequality in China and BRIC+ pp. 634-653

Serhan Cevik and Carolina Correa-Caro

Understanding asset holdings of Vietnamese households pp. 654-674

Vy Thao Nguyen and Maria Sagrario Floro

Exchange rate risk and commodity trade between U.S. and India: an asymmetry analysis pp. 675-695

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Sujata Saha

Chinese Muslim’s choice of halal products: evidence from stated preference data pp. 696-717

Meenchee Hong, Sizhong Sun, Rabiul Beg and Zhang-Yue Zhou

Impact of the positive list system (PLS) on the banana market in Korea pp. 718-732

Jun Ho Seok and GwanSeon Kim

Residential electricity demand in Taiwan: the effects of urbanization and energy poverty pp. 733-756

Yu-Wen Su

Financial sector policies and current account imbalances: cross country evidence pp. 757-782

Xun Wang

Volume 25, issue 3, 2020

A measure of income mobility based on transition matrices and application to China and the United States pp. 389-401

Satya Paul

International treaties and foreign direct investment: an empirical analysis of effects of bilateral investment treaties on South Korea's FDI pp. 402-417

Heon Joo Jung and Eun Mi Kim

Spatial structures of manufacturing clusters in Thailand, Cambodia and Lao People’s Democratic Republic pp. 418-446

Toshitaka Gokan, Ikuo Kuroiwa, Nuttawut Laksanapanyakul and Yasushi Ueki

Energy and economic growth in developing Asian economies pp. 447-471

Muhammad Azam

Revisiting the Lewisian turning point in Taiwan pp. 472-500

Chia-Yu Hung and Hung-Lin Tao

Dynamics of public debt sustainability in major Indian states pp. 501-518

P. S. Renjith and K.R. Shanmugam

Efficiency of trade credit and bank finance: an ethnic minority area in China pp. 519-544

Go Yano and Maho Shiraishi

Habitus of informality in small scale society agrifood chains – filling the knowledge gap using a socio-culturally focused value chain analysis tool pp. 545-570

Kim P. Bryceson and Anne Ross

The effect of intergovernmental transfers on infrastructure spending in Indonesia pp. 571-590

Adiwan F. Aritenang

Volume 25, issue 2, 2020

Migration decisions and destination choices pp. 197-226

Madhav Regmi, Krishna Paudel and Keshav Bhattarai

Can the government enhance the happiness of entrepreneurs?: evidence from China pp. 227-249

Li Xiong, Tingting Wu, Yulan Li and Hao Chen

Investigation of the time-dependent dynamics between government revenue and expenditure in China: a wavelet approach pp. 250-269

Hyunjoo Kim Karlsson

Various financial regulation effects on the lending market: evidence from Korea pp. 270-288

Ji-Yong Seo

Business cycle co-movements and transmission channels: evidence from China pp. 289-306

Huifang Cheng, Lijun Cen, Yu Wang and Hongyi Li

Urban agglomeration and job search behavior: evidence from China pp. 307-325

Jiafeng Zong, Zongjian Lin, Man Guo and Liang Zhou

Evolution of the specialization of China’s exports according to their technological content pp. 326-347

Ana Salvador, Eduardo Fernández-Huerga and Ana Pardo

Does the matrilineality make a difference? Land, kinship and women's empowerment in Bobonaro district, Timor-Leste pp. 348-370

Vanda Jesus Santos Narciso and Pedro Damião Sousa Henriques

The effect of National Health Insurance on private health expenditure in Taiwan: crowd in or crowd out? pp. 371-385

Yung-hsiang Ying and Koyin Chang

Shoe dog pp. 386-387

Paul Vandenberg

Volume 25, issue 1, 2020

Technical efficiency of banking institutions in a Pacific Island Country: a distance function stochastic frontier analysis* pp. 1-15

Parmendra Sharma, Savaira Manoa, Seci Taleniwesi and Hong Son Nghiem

The political economy of foreign investment and industrial development: the Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand in comparative perspective pp. 16-39

Manuel F. Montes and Jerome Patrick Cruz

Corporate governance and listing location of Chinese firms: the bonding theory revisited pp. 40-61

Li Xian Liu and Jun Li

Impacts of minimum wages on employment and unemployment in Indonesia pp. 62-78

Tifani Siregar

Gender inequality of job security: veiling glass ceiling in Korea pp. 79-98

Hanna Jung and Joonmo Cho

The labor market impact of relative body weight in Taiwan–a semiparametric analysis pp. 99-123

Teng-Yuan Hu, Dong-Long Lin, Meng-Shiuh Chang and Ya-Tang Hsu

Economic analysis of development policies with reference to large-scale water control infrastructures and rural intensification in the Mekong River Delta: a case study from Vietnam pp. 124-155

Yen Dan Tong and Harry Clarke

Determinants of China’s arms exports: a political economy perspective pp. 156-174

Chih-Hai Yang

Shadow economy and income inequality: new empirical evidence from Asian developing countries pp. 175-192

Cong Minh Huynh and Tan Loi Nguyen

Industrial policy in developing countries: failing markets, weak states pp. 193-194

Paul Vandenberg

The fourth industrial revolution pp. 194-196

Paul Vandenberg

Volume 24, issue 4, 2019

The Chinese economy: past, present and future outlook pp. 481-483

Jing Li, Guanghua Wan and Jing Wang

The deep determinants of economic development in China—a provincial perspective pp. 484-514

Linda Glawe and Helmut Wagner

FDI inflow and financial costs of local firms pp. 515-529

Yu Wu, Xiao Li, Yan Zhang and Kai Li

Does the type of investor matter? An analysis of fixed-asset investments in rural China pp. 530-555

Lingli Xiao, Jing Li and Jing Wang

Housing wealth appreciation and consumption: evidence from China pp. 556-577

Changyan Peng, Weisong Qiu, Quanyun Song and Bihong Huang

Investing for urban-rural migration: the role of education pp. 578-594

Xun Zhang, Hua Niu, Guanghua Wan and Chen Wang

Effects of human capital difference on migration destination preference of rural floating population in China pp. 595-617

Haitao Zhao, Naiquan Liu and Jinxian Wang

Wages, house prices and industry composition: an empirical analysis of cities in China pp. 618-644

Jing Wang, Lifen Zhu and Jing Li

China’s role in mitigating poverty and inequality in Africa: an empirical query pp. 645-669

Tam NguyenHuu and Jörg Schwiebert

Does institutional difference affect Chinese outward foreign direct investment? Evidence from fuel and non-fuel natural resources pp. 670-689

Syed Hasanat Shah, Muhammad Kamal, Hafsa Hasnat and Li Jun Jiang

Volume 24, issue 3, 2019

Correction pp. X-X

The Editors

Access and exclusion: case of transnational ‘land grabbing’ in Pakistan pp. 331-346

Salman Ata, Babar Shahbaz, Muhammad Arif Watto and Muhammad Tahir Siddiqui

Color matters: field experiment to explore the impact of facial complexion in Pakistani labor market pp. 347-363

Abubakr Saeed, Sidra Maqsood and Amir Rafique

Family, teacher, and student ability development in China pp. 364-380

Tingting Tong

Limited loan rate differentiation, guanxi, loan size and loan maturity in the Chinese bank credit market pp. 381-401

Kent Matthews and Wei Yin

Traditional thinking: the impact of international aid on social structures and cultural traditions in agrifood chains in Tonga and Solomon Islands pp. 402-429

Anne Ross and Kim P. Bryceson

State owned enterprises and capital misallocation in Vietnam pp. 430-451

Thang Ngoc Bach

Revisiting income inequality in rural China: a decomposition by regression approach pp. 452-467

Delin Zhuang, Wai Choi Lee, Tsun Se Cheong, Huaqing Wu and Baoyu Peng

Urban scale and wage premium: evidence from China pp. 468-480

Shuhong Peng

Volume 24, issue 2, 2019

Artists’ labor supply behavior for multiple job holding: evidence from Korea pp. 165-181

Suyoung Yoon and Shik Heo

Social assistance and household consumption in urban China: from 2002 to 2013 pp. 182-207

Yi Wang, Sui Yang and Qin Gao

Dynamic trends in household poverty and inequality in Sri Lanka: do gender and ethnicity matter? pp. 208-223

Maneka Jayasinghe

Determinants of Producer Price versus Consumer price inflation in emerging Asia pp. 224-251

Juthathip Jongwanich, Donghyun Park and Petchtharin Wongcharoen

Distributional change, income mobility and pro-poor growth: evidence from India pp. 252-269

Aswini Mishra, Sadhana Satapathy, Biswabas Patra and Rajendra Prasad Patro

Predictors of age-specific child mortality for India pp. 270-291

G. Naline and Brinda Viswanathan

The effect of housing prices on consumption and economic growth – the case of Taiwan pp. 292-312

Tsoyu Calvin Lin, Shih-Hsun Hsu and Yu-Lun Lin

Can trading partner cultural diversity explain trade? pp. 313-327

Azmat Gani and Francis Scrimgeour

The development of Malaysian capitalism: from British rule to the present day pp. 328-329

Jafar Suryomenggolo

Volume 24, issue 1, 2019

Poverty and its reduction in a Chinese border region: is social capital important? pp. 1-23

Liu Hong, Clement Tisdell and Wang Fei

Re-examining economic returns to Communist Party membership in Mainland China pp. 24-41

Qian Guo and Wenkai Sun

What drive the local incidence of crime, shadow economy and resource-related conflicts in Mindanao, Philippines? Evidence of spillover effects pp. 42-65

Joseph Capuno

Asymmetry cointegration and the J-curve: new evidence from Korean bilateral trade balance models with her 14 partners pp. 66-81

Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Jungho Baek

Hong Kong unrest and implications for the Hang Seng Index pp. 82-96

Lucía Morales and Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan

From limited access to open access order in Taiwan pp. 97-116

Tomasz Legiedź

Marketing investments and firm performance in manufacturing sector: a panel threshold model for China pp. 117-126

Dinesh Jaisinghani and Kakali Kanjilal

Puri vs. Varanasi destinations: local residents’ perceptions, overall community satisfaction and support for tourism development pp. 127-142

Xiaoping Zhuang, Li Lin and Jun (Justin) Li

Effect of financial crisis on sustainable growth: Empirical evidence from Pakistan pp. 143-164

Hafsa Hina and Abdul Qayyum