Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy

1996 - 2025

Current editor(s): Leong Liew

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Volume 23, issue 4, 2018

Public and private investment in human capital and intergenerational transfers in Asia: an overview pp. 511-514

Charles Horioka, Peter Morgan and Yoko Niimi

Was higher education a major channel through which the US became an economic superpower in the 20th century? pp. 515-553

Adam Cook and Isaac Ehrlich

Human capital and income inequality* pp. 554-583

Jong-Wha Lee and Hanol Lee

Three generations of changing gender patterns of schooling in China pp. 584-605

Kathleen McGarry and Xiaoting Sun

The impact of primary school investment reallocation on educational attainment in rural China pp. 606-627

Tobias Haepp and Lidan Lyu

Do borrowing constraints matter for intergenerational educational mobility? Evidence from Japan* pp. 628-656

Yoko Niimi

How to conduct effective industrial policy: a comparison of automotive development in the Philippines and Indonesia pp. 657-682

John Thoburn and Kaoru Natsuda

Volume 23, issue 3, 2018

Effects of China's one-child policy on group cooperation: survey evidence pp. 327-339

Yoshihiko Kadoya, Mostafa Saidur Rahim Khan and Yoshio Sano

A general equilibrium analysis of China's urbanization pp. 340-356

James Xiaohe Zhang

Food staple production and alternative development paths: India and China pp. 357-373

Richard Grabowski

The Feldstein–Horioka puzzle in the presence of structural breaks: evidence from China pp. 374-392

Dilem Yildirim and Ethem Erdem Orman

Interest rate autonomy in the presence of exchange rate stability: evidence from 13 selected Asia Pacific countries pp. 393-410

Pei-Tha Gan

The inequality-growth link revisited with spatial considerations: the case of provinces in the Philippines pp. 411-427

Valerien Pede, Gustavo Barboza, Adam H. Sparks and Justin McKinley

Bank- and country-based determinants of banks’ performance in Asia pp. 428-446

Paolo Saona and Md. Abul Kalam Azad

Performance appraisal for the operation and management of listed and OTC Taiwanese companies with DEA benchmarking models pp. 447-464

Ze-Bin Wang, Yung-Ho Chiu, Jin-chi Hsieh, Ying Li and Lee-hui Hsiao

Thai inflation dynamics in a globalized economy pp. 465-495

Pym Manopimoke

The clean development mechanism (CDM) as a financial platform for North Korea's development pp. 496-510

Jiyoun Park

Volume 23, issue 2, 2018

Climate change and sustainable development issues: arguments and policy initiatives pp. 187-194

Rajah Rasiah, Fatimah Kari, Yuri Sadoi and Nazia Mintz-Habib

Climate change mitigation projections for ASEAN pp. 195-212

Rajah Rasiah, Abul Al-Amin, Anwar Hossain Chowdhurry, Ferdous Ahmed and Chen Zhang

Does income inequality affect environmental sustainability? Evidence from the ASEAN-5 pp. 213-228

Muhammad Mehedi Masud, Fatimah Binti Kari, Hasanul Banna and Md. Khaled Saifullah

Are microfinance institutions in South-East Asia pursuing objectives of greening the environment? pp. 229-245

Md Aslam Mia, Miao Zhang, Cheng Zhang and Yoomi Kim

Farmers’ perceptions, awareness, attitudes and adaption behaviour towards climate change pp. 246-262

Rulia Akhtar, Rafia Afroz, Muhammad Mehedi Masud, Mahfuzur Rahman, Haniza Khalid and Jarita Binti Duasa

Introducing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in Malaysia pp. 263-278

Angelina F. Ambrose, Rajah Rasiah, Abul Al-Amin and Zhang Chen

The impact of Euro 4 automobile emission regulations on the development of technological capabilities in ASEAN pp. 279-296

Yuri Sadoi

Threats, vulnerability, resilience and displacement among the climate change and natural disaster-affected people in South-East Asia: an overview pp. 297-323

M. Rezaul Islam and Niaz Ahmed Khan

Local clusters in global value chains: linking actors and territories through manufacturing and innovation, edited by Valentina De Marchi, Eleonora Di Maria, and Gary Gereffi pp. 324-326

John Thoburn

Volume 23, issue 1, 2018

Looking into the black box of the Korean economy: the sparse factor model approach1 pp. 1-16

Hyun Hak Kim

The long-run analysis of monetary policy transmission channels on inflation: a VECM approach pp. 17-30

Ngan Tran

The effect of religion on women's labor force participation rates in Indonesia pp. 31-50

Imam M. Alam, Shahina Amin and Ken McCormick

Spatial dependence in the growth process and implications for convergence rate: evidence on Vietnamese provinces pp. 51-65

Bulent Esiyok and Mehmet Ugur

Does population aging intensify income inequality? Evidence from China pp. 66-77

Zhiqiang Dong, Canqing Tang and Xiahai Wei

The impact of universal health coverage on households’ consumption and savings in Thailand pp. 78-98

Phatta Kirdruang and Paul Glewwe

Dynamic effects of monetary policy on output and prices in Pakistan: a disaggregate analysis pp. 99-118

Kashif Munir

Dynamic mechanism between economic shocks and adjustments to loan portfolio weight: evidence from South Korean banks pp. 119-137

Gyu-Hyen Moon and Ji-Yong Seo

The feminization of agriculture or the feminization of agrarian distress? Tracking the trajectory of women in agriculture in India pp. 138-155

Itishree Pattnaik, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Stewart Lockie and Bill Pritchard

Indonesia's centripetal democracy and economic growth pp. 156-172

Michael T. Rock

An exchange motive in upstream intergenerational transfers: evidence from South Korea pp. 173-185

Hyelim Son

Volume 22, issue 4, 2017

Vital factors for Chinese rural development: the reach of the state and lineage identity in villages pp. 547-559

Mobo C. F. Gao

Asymmetry in the fly-paper effect of the national subsidy in Korea pp. 560-574

Sangsoo Lim, Sanghoon Lee and Pilhyun Kim

The implications of US punitive tariffs on Chinese tires for rubber exports from South-East Asia pp. 575-586

Bo Xiong

Cultural distance, political risk and location decisions of emerging-market multinationals: a comparison between Chinese and Indian firms pp. 587-603

Diego Quer, Enrique Claver and Laura Rienda

Research output: evidence from economics departments in the Asia-Pacific region pp. 604-620

Wai-Ching Poon and Gareth Leeves

Oil import diversification in the Asia-Pacific (1976–2014) pp. 621-625

S. Hayden Lesbirel and Sizhong Sun

Emergent new finance: hedge funds and private equity funds in East Asia pp. 626-646

Justin Robertson

Intellectual property rights protection and R&D offshoring: evidence from Taiwan pp. 647-656

Po-Lu Chen and Hsun-Fang Hsu

A comparative analysis of the smart money effect in Malaysian Islamic and conventional equity funds pp. 657-679

Ainulashikin Marzuki and Andrew Worthington

Assessing and explaining vegetable growers’ efficiency in the south-eastern hilly districts of Bangladesh pp. 680-695

Asif Reza Anik and Md. Abdus Salam

Editorial Board pp. ebi-ebi

The Editors

Volume 22, issue 3, 2017

Is Vietnam's exchange rate overvalued? pp. 357-371

Duy Hung Bui, Anthony Makin and Shyama Ratnasiri

The Chongqing vs. Guangdong developmental ‘models’ in post-Mao China: regional and historical perspectives on the dynamics of socioeconomic change pp. 372-395

Kean Fan Lim and Niv Horesh

Evolving informal remittance methods among Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand pp. 396-413

Koji Kubo

The effects of macroeconomic shocks on the Brunei economy: a sign restriction approach pp. 414-428

Wee Chian Koh

Middle-income transitions: trap or myth? pp. 429-453

Jesus Felipe, Utsav Kumar and Reynold Galope

Pro-business and pro-market reforms in Pakistan: economic growth and stagnation 1950–51 to 2011–12 pp. 454-476

Grace Kite and Matthew McCartney

Has the Chile–Korea FTA served as a bridgehead FTA? pp. 477-485

Shi-Young Lee, Hyejoon Im and Eun Jung Lim

International transfers and Dutch Disease: evidence from South Asian countries pp. 486-509

Md. Bakhtiar Uddin and Syed Mansoob Murshed

Trade-off between creativity and productivity in technology-based SMEs performance: policy implications in South Korea pp. 510-524

Fiona Sussan, Ki-Chan Kim, Ravi R. Chinta and John Laurence Enriquez

Earnings among nine ethnic minorities and the Han majority in China's cities pp. 525-546

Björn Gustafsson and Xiuna Yang

Volume 22, issue 2, 2017

The effect of foreign direct investment on human capital development in East Asia pp. 195-211

Hong Zhuang

Contribution of household income components to the level and rise of inequality in urban China pp. 212-226

Satya Paul, Zhao Chen and Ming Lu

Will China's demographic transition exacerbate its income inequality?–CGE modeling with top-down microsimulation pp. 227-252

Xinxin Wang, Kevin Z. Chen, Sherman Robinson and Zuhui Huang

Comparing Taiwan's foreign aid to Japan, South Korea and DAC pp. 253-272

Joel Atkinson

ASEAN centrality amidst economic integration in the Asia Pacific region pp. 273-290

Emmanuel Genesis T. Andal

Do minimum wages affect firms’ labor and capital? Evidence from Vietnam pp. 291-308

Cuong Nguyen

Universal Coverage Scheme and out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure: evidence from Thailand pp. 309-329

Yu-Tung Hsu and Chih-Hai Yang

Determinants of the Bangladesh garment exports in the post-MFA environment pp. 330-352

Md Samsul Alam, E. A. Selvanathan and Saroja Selvanathan

China's economy: what everyone needs to know, by Arthur R. Kroeber/Developing China: the remarkable impact of foreign direct investment, by Michael J. Enright pp. 353-356

John Thoburn

Volume 22, issue 1, 2017

Overview on ‘escaping the middle-income trap’ pp. 1-4

Guanghua Wan and Peter Morgan

Transitioning from low-income growth to high-income growth: is there a middle-income trap? pp. 5-28

David Bulman, Maya Eden and Ha Nguyen

Is the People's Republic of China's current slowdown a cyclical downturn or a long-term trend? A productivity-based analysis pp. 29-46

Chong-En Bai and Qiong Zhang

Manufacturing as the key engine of economic growth for middle-income economies pp. 47-70

Dan Su and Yang Yao

Credit market development and firm innovation: evidence from the People's Republic of China pp. 71-89

Hua Shang, Quanyun Song and Yu Wu

Why Asia and China have lower urban concentration and urban primacy pp. 90-105

Guanghua Wan, Dan Yang and Yuan Zhang

Housing prices and investment: an assessment of China's inland-favoring land supply policies pp. 106-121

Libin Han and Ming Lu

Did city cluster development help improve labor productivity in China? pp. 122-135

Peixin Li, Chen Wang and Xueliang Zhang

The size distribution and growth pattern of cities in China, 1982–2010: analysis and policy implications pp. 136-155

Kam Wing Chan and Guanghua Wan

Does migrating with children influence migrants' occupation choice and income? pp. 156-172

Chunbing Xing and Yinheng Wei

Industrial policy and economic geography: evidence from China pp. 173-190

Yiyun Wu and Xiwei Zhu

Globalization and transnational capitalism in Asia and Oceania, edited by Jeb Sprague pp. 191-193

Oliver Turner