The Singapore Economic Review (SER)

2001 - 2025

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Volume 68, issue 06, 2023

HOW DOES THE WTO DISPUTE SETTLEMENT MECHANISM WORK FOR WTO MEMBERS? A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES pp. 1829-1850

Jie Wu, Jacob Wood, Zechu Luo and Shenglan Chen

DO IMPORT TECHNOLOGY SPILLOVERS IMPACT ECO-EFFICIENCY IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES: A SPILLOVER DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS pp. 1851-1874

Jian Chen, Di Zhao, Taimoor Hassan and Yang Zhao

FORECASTING WAGES INEQUALITY IN RESPONSE OF TRADE OPENNESS IN PAKISTAN: AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK APPROACH pp. 1875-1890

Irfan Ullah, Xuefeng Qian, Muhammad Haroon Shah, Alam Rehman, Sher Ali and Zeeshan Ahmed

TRADE OPENNESS AND THE PHILLIPS CURVE: EVIDENCE FROM ASEAN COUNTRIES pp. 1891-1915

Fumitaka Furuoka, Kiew Ling Pui, Ma Tin Chomar and Larisa Nikitina

EFFECTS OF ELECTRIFICATION ON THE COAL INDUSTRY’S PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION: EVIDENCE FROM 1900S JAPAN pp. 1917-1942

Mayo Morimoto

DIVISION OF LABOR UNDER PERFECT COMPETITION pp. 1943-1951

Puqing Lai and Till Requate

INDIVISIBLE LABOR SUPPLY AND INVOLUNTARY UNEMPLOYMENT: MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION MODEL pp. 1953-1966

Yasuhito Tanaka

FACTOR MISALLOCATION, INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE AND LABOR INCOME SHARE IN CHINA pp. 1967-1990

Minghui Xin, Min Gong and Pan Xie

A LOOK AT THE U.S. BUSINESS CYCLES THROUGH THE LENS OF A TANK MODEL pp. 1991-2009

Yongseung Jung

A FORECASTING APPROACH TO REAL EFFECTIVE EXCHANGE RATE-OIL PRICE NEXUS IN CHINA pp. 2011-2027

Hamid Baghestani and Sehar Fatima

CAN WINNERS KEEP WINNING? AN ANALYSIS OF PERFORMANCE PERSISTENCE OF MUTUAL FUNDS AND HEDGE FUNDS IN CHINA pp. 2029-2050

Liangbo Zhai and Wei Wang

A STUDY ON THE NEGATIVE EXTERNALITY OF USD LIQUIDITY — BASED ON THE ASSET ALLOCATION EFFICIENCY OF US TREASURY SECURITIES pp. 2051-2079

Chang Rong Lu, Jia Xiang Li and Yi Sheng

IMPLICATIONS OF PLATFORM FINANCE ON MONETARY POLICY TRANSMISSION pp. 2081-2103

Chin-Yoong Wong and Yoke-Kee Eng

AN ANALYSIS OF THE INITIAL PRESALE RATE IN HOUSING PROJECTS USING A REGIME-SWITCHING MODEL pp. 2105-2126

Myeong Hyeon Kim, Doo Won Bang and Hyuck Shin Kwon

NOISY HIGH FREQUENCY DATA-BASED ESTIMATION OF VOLATILITY FUNCTION WITH APPLICATIONS pp. 2127-2150

Jinguan Lin, Xuguo Ye, Yanyong Zhao and Hongxia Hao

DOES CARBON EMISSION, ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND INCOME MATTER? INVESTIGATING FACTORS AFFECTING HEALTHCARE EXPENDITURE AMONG 61 NATIONS pp. 2151-2167

Sabina Ampon-Wireko, Lulin Zhou, Lamini Dauda, Xinglong Xu, Ebenezer Larnyo and Edmund Nkrumah Nana Kwame

ADAPTATIONS AND MITIGATION POLICIES TO CLIMATE CHANGE: A DYNAMIC CGE-WE MODEL pp. 2169-2193

Muhammad Zeshan and Muhammad Shakeel

FACTORS LEADING TO INCREASED CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS OF THE APEC COUNTRIES: THE LMDI DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS pp. 2195-2214

Yu-Fang Chang and Bwo-Nung Huang

SOCIAL PREFERENCES OF YOUNG ADULTS IN JAPAN: THE ROLES OF AGE AND GENDER pp. 2215-2223

Akihiro Kawase

INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF MARRIED WOMEN’S EMPLOYMENT IN JAPAN pp. 2225-2242

Aysenur Aydinbakar

Volume 68, issue 05, 2023

DATA SUBJECT TO MULTIPLE TREATMENT EFFECTS — DISENTANGLE THE IMPACTS OF GLOBAL PANDEMIC AND A SPECIFIC DISEASE CONTROL POLICY pp. 1507-1527

Xiao Ke and Cheng Hsiao

AN AI APPROACH TO MEASURING FINANCIAL RISK pp. 1529-1549

Lining Yu, Wolfgang Karl Hã„rdle, Lukas Borke and Thijs Benschop

LARGE SHAREHOLDERS AND INFORMATION ASYMMETRY IN A TRANSITION ECONOMY – EVIDENCE FROM VIETNAM pp. 1551-1567

Xuan Vinh Vo

DIRECTIONAL ACCURACY OF SINGAPORE’S MACROECONOMIC FORECASTS pp. 1569-1583

Young Bin Ahn and Yoichi Tsuchiya

EFFECTS OF CAPITAL INFLOWS ON FISCAL BALANCE IN AN EMERGING ECONOMY: EVIDENCE FROM PAKISTAN pp. 1585-1598

Muhammad Zakaria, Wen Jun and Arooj Khan

EFFECTS OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS ON GOVERNMENTAL TAX EXPENDITURES FOR PRIVATE PENSIONS IN SELECTED OECD COUNTRIES pp. 1599-1611

Byung Wook Jun, Soo Jean Park and Sung Man Yoon

DOES THE CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TWIN DEFICITS VARY OVER TIME? EVIDENCE FROM A BOOTSTRAP ROLLING WINDOW APPROACH pp. 1613-1635

Tie-Ying Liu and Zi-Chen Gu

WHAT IS THE RELATION BETWEEN NON-PERFORMING LOANS, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, AND LENDING BEHAVIOR FACTORS? pp. 1637-1650

Joe-Ming Lee

HOW LARGE ARE PRODUCTIVITY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ISLAMIC AND CONVENTIONAL BANKS? pp. 1651-1670

Wahida Ahmad and David Prentice

THE DRIVERS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION IN ASEAN + China: DO FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND URBANIZATION HAVE ANY MODERATING EFFECT? pp. 1671-1714

Kizito Uyi Ehigiamusoe

WHAT CAME FIRST, TRANSPORTATION OR URBANIZATION? pp. 1715-1730

Tie-Ying Liu, Chi-Wei Su, Meng Qin and Xiao-Yan Zhang

THE OPTIMAL LAND SUPPLY POLICY OF CHINESE LOCAL GOVERNMENT pp. 1731-1750

Yiyao He

ANALYZING THE ASYMMETRIC EFFECTS OF CRUDE OIL PRICE CHANGES ON CHINA’S PETROLEUM PRODUCT PRICES pp. 1751-1770

Xianchun Liao and Jungho Baek

COORDINATION OF TRADE AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS POLICIES pp. 1771-1785

Te-Cheng Lu, Jin-Li Hu and Yan-Shu Lin

INTERNET USE, FINANCE ACQUISITION AND RETURNING MIGRANT WORKERS’ HOME ENTREPRENEURSHIP — EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS BASED ON CLDS2016 pp. 1787-1813

Hongmin Fan, Nan Zhang and Chunyu Meng

LEARNING TO BE OVERCONFIDENT AND UNDERCONFIDENT pp. 1815-1827

Yuanzhu Lu, Jinming Hu and Yaxian Gong

Volume 68, issue 04, 2023

POVERTY ALLEVIATION POLICIES FOR ACHIEVING INCLUSIVE GROWTH: EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION pp. 1059-1062

Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary

LEVERAGING ON ENERGY SECURITY TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY IN ASIAN ECONOMIES pp. 1063-1090

Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, Abdulrasheed Zakari, Naoyuki Yoshino and Irfan Khan

HOW HAS THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK AFFECTED ECONOMIC POVERTY IN DIFFERENT ASIAN REGIONS? pp. 1091-1113

Linhai Zhao and Ehsan Rasoulinezhad

HOW DO NATURAL DISASTERS AFFECT ENERGY POVERTY? EVIDENCE FROM A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE pp. 1115-1146

Yue Dou, Kangyin Dong, Qingzhe Jiang and Muhammad Shahbaz

KNOWLEDGE CHANGES FATE: CAN FINANCIAL LITERACY ADVANCE POVERTY REDUCTION IN RURAL HOUSEHOLDS? pp. 1147-1182

Shulin Xu, Zhen Yang, Zefeng Tong and Yunfeng Li

THE NEXUS OF FINANCIAL DEEPENING AND POVERTY: THE CASE OF BLACK SEA REGION ECONOMIES pp. 1183-1205

Chenghui Lu and Azer Dilanchiev

DOES FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT MATTER IN POVERTY REDUCTION? EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM SOUTH ASIAN ECONOMIES pp. 1207-1230

Wenqin Ma

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND RURAL ENERGY POVERTY: EVIDENCE FROM CHINA pp. 1231-1250

Yi Wang, Jianhe Wang, Lei Wang, Li Zhang and Ziman Xiang

ROLE OF FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY ON POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN ASIAN COUNTRIES: MEDIATING ROLE OF INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY pp. 1251-1270

Xi-Yan Liu and Lei Chang

TARGETED POVERTY ALLEVIATION AND STOCK PRICE CRASH RISK: EVIDENCE FROM CHINA pp. 1271-1301

Shoudong Chen and Yueshan Li

DOES THE POLICY OF FINANCIAL SUBSIDIES FOR AGRICULTURAL INSURANCE CONTRIBUTE TO ENSURING FOOD SECURITY FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION? EVIDENCE FROM CHINA pp. 1303-1322

Qunxi Kong, Rongrong Li, Dan Peng and Zoey Wong

EVALUATING THE ROLE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN CAPITAL IN POVERTY REDUCTION AND INCLUSIVE GROWTH IN SOUTH ASIA pp. 1323-1344

Sicheng Li, Cemei Li, Mohammad Maruf Hasan, Syed Moudud-Ul-Huq and Robina Iram

ROLE OF SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT TO POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN ASIA: DOES INCLUSIVE GROWTH MATTER IN A COLLECTIVE ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT pp. 1345-1373

Benchang Chen and Guilin Kuang

IMPACTS OF FINANCIAL INCLUSION ON POVERTY AND INCOME INEQUALITY IN DEVELOPING ASIA pp. 1375-1391

Warattaya Chinnakum

CAN INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT ALLEVIATE MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY? — EVIDENCE FROM CHINA pp. 1393-1426

Yongbo Ge, Yuexiao Zhu, Wenqiang Zhang and Xiaoran Kong

DOES ENERGY EFFICIENCY MATTER FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH? A FRESH EMPIRICAL INSIGHT FROM AN ASIAN PERSPECTIVE pp. 1427-1446

Xiaohan Jiang, Jianwen Zhou, Mingyang Wang, Chunlong Dong and Amir Ishaque

DO REMITTANCES MITIGATE POVERTY? AN EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM 15 SELECTED ASIAN ECONOMIES pp. 1447-1468

Xiang Cui, Muhammad Umair, Ganijon Ibragimove Gayratovich and Azer Dilanchiev

TRILEMMA ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATION, INCOME AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION: MANAGERIAL IMPLICATIONS FOR INCLUSIVE ECONOMIC GROWTH pp. 1469-1492

Zhen Liu, Mohammad Maruf Hasan, Li Xuan, Hayot Berk Saydaliev, Jing Lan and Wasim Iqbal

A FUZZY ANALYSIS OF SPIRITUAL POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN DEEP POVERTY-STRICKEN AREAS OF GANSU pp. 1493-1505

Weiwei Guo and Yongxiang Ma

Volume 68, issue 03, 2023

ELECTRICITY MARKET LIBERALIZATION AND EFFICIENCY: EVIDENCE FROM SINGAPORE pp. 651-669

Qu Feng and Shihao Zhou

RESIDUAL GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP AND FIRM VALUE IN A TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY pp. 671-684

Xuan Vinh Vo

FRICTIONS AND MISMATCHES IN THE LABOR MARKET pp. 685-701

Burhan Biner and Turkmen Goksel

REGIONAL SKILL DIFFERENTIALS: A STUDY OF THE INDONESIAN LABOR MARKET pp. 703-728

Tri Mulyaningsih, Riyana Miranti, Anne Daly and Chris Manning

CONFLICTS, CALAMITIES AND NUTRITIONAL POVERTY TRAPS IN A PEASANT ECONOMY: EVIDENCE FROM RURAL CHINA 1929–1933 pp. 729-759

Li Zhou, Jie Sun and Calum Greig Turvey

THE ROLE OF MARKETIZATION ON THE LINKAGE BETWEEN MISALLOCATION AND PRODUCTIVITY DISPERSION: EVIDENCE FROM CHINA pp. 761-795

Yuan An, Kebin Deng, Zhong Ding and Fox Gao

THE EMERGENCE OF NEW TECHNOLOGY-BASED SECTORS: A PROXIMITY APPROACH BASED ON CHINESE PATENT DATA pp. 797-821

Hua Zhang, Christopher Decker and Jinlan Ni

ASYMMETRIC RESPONSE OF DISAGGREGATED IMPORT DEMAND TO EXCHANGE RATE MOVEMENTS: A SMALL OPEN ECONOMY PERSPECTIVE pp. 823-840

Khurrum S. Mughal, Saddam Ilyas, Yasir Tariq Mohmand, Faheem Aslam and Mukhtar Ul Hasan

MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERSPECTIVE OF FINANCIAL RISK ANALYSIS: EVIDENCE FROM CHINA pp. 841-866

Yunxia Tan, Hafeez Ullah, Xiaoyue Cheng, Fan Zhang and Zhuquan Wang

IMPACT OF FINANCIAL CRISES ON THE DYNAMICS OF CAPITAL STRUCTURE: EVIDENCE FROM KOREAN LISTED COMPANIES pp. 867-898

Tsoy Lyubov and Almas Heshmati

HOW DOES INVESTOR SENTIMENT INFLUENCE IPO INITIAL RETURN AND LONG-TERM PERFORMANCE? AN AGENT-BASED COMPUTATIONAL FINANCE APPROACH pp. 899-915

Xiong Xiong, Jinyi Zhang, Zhenwei Lv and Gaofeng Zou

INTERDEPENDENCE BETWEEN STOCKS AND EXCHANGE RATE IN EAST ASIA — A WAVELET-BASED APPROACH pp. 917-939

Dejan Živkov, Marko Peä†anac and Dajana Ercegovac

NON-PERFORMING LOANS, MACROECONOMIC AND BANK-SPECIFIC VARIABLES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC pp. 941-961

Ooi Kok Loang, Zamri Ahmad and R.â V. Naveenan

DETERMINANTS OF BANK LIQUIDITY CREATION: A COMPARISON BETWEEN ISLAMIC BANKS AND CONVENTIONAL BANKS IN A DUAL BANKING SYSTEM pp. 963-999

Moau Yong Toh and Dekui Jia

FINANCIAL STABILITY AND MONETARY POLICY REACTION FUNCTION FOR SOUTH ASIAN COUNTRIES: AN ECONOMETRIC APPROACH pp. 1001-1030

Samia Nasreen and Sofia Anwar

COMMITMENT DEVICES IN MARRIAGE FOR SAVINGS: EVIDENCE FROM JAPAN pp. 1031-1058

Wataru Kureishi and Midori Wakabayashi

Volume 68, issue 02, 2023

FORECASTING SINGAPORE’s ECONOMY USING STATISTICAL LEARNING AND FACTOR MODELS pp. 319-353

Benedict Foo, Deng Yao Koh, Juan Pang Tan and Wenjie Wang

EMISSIONS TAX AND EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION: A PUBLIC–PRIVATE JOINT MECHANISM TO PROMOTE ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY MANAGEMENT pp. 355-375

Soo Keong Yong and Youngho Chang

ENVIRONMENTAL MACROECONOMICS: A NEGLECTED THEME IN ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS — LEAVE ALONE ECONOMICS pp. 377-396

Dodo J. Thampapillai and Yvonne Chen

IS AN AGING POPULATION GOOD OR BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT? PANEL EVIDENCE FROM 25 OECD COUNTRIES pp. 397-412

Yoori Kim and Jungho Baek

DOES CULTURE EXPLAIN THE HIGH PRIVATE SAVING BEHAVIOR IN EAST ASIAN COUNTRIES? FURTHER EVIDENCE pp. 413-456

Nianzhi Guo and Anthony H. Tu

EXPLAINING GAPS IN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT BY MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS IN AUSTRALIA pp. 457-466

Phil Simmons and Brian Dollery

SOCIAL INSURANCE UNDER FRAUD AND REDISTRIBUTIVE TAXATION pp. 467-483

Tsaur-Chin Michael Wu, Chih-Ta Yen, Che-Chiang Huang and Jin-Li Hu

WHETHER CONSUMER SATISFACTION BENEFITS THE INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM HONG KONG pp. 485-506

Jin Li, Geoffrey Tso and Don Wu

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT AND INNOVATION: EVIDENCE FROM CHINESE FIRMS’ PATENT FILINGS pp. 507-538

Ting Chen, Xianmeng Chen, Wenjie Luo and Xunyong Xiang

PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND INTENTION FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP pp. 539-561

Murat Yalcintas, OYKÜ IYIGÜN and Gokhan Karabulut

SKEWED CREDIT AND GROWTH DYNAMICS pp. 563-608

Gemma Estrada, Aitor Erce and Donghyun Park

THE EFFECTS OF UNCONVENTIONAL MONETARY POLICY IN JAPAN: NEW EVIDENCE FROM TIME-VARYING PARAMETER VAR ANALYSIS pp. 609-628

Kansho Piotr Otsubo

NON-LINEAR EFFECTS OF TERRORISM ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN PAKISTAN: ACCOUNTING FOR CAPITAL PER WORKER AND STRUCTURAL BREAKS pp. 629-650

Ronald Kumar, Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad, Peter Josef Stauvermann and Nikeel Kumar

Volume 68, issue 01, 2023

QUANTITATIVE EASING POLICY, EXCHANGE RATES AND BUSINESS ACTIVITY BY INDUSTRY IN JAPAN FROM 2001 TO 2006 pp. 1-28

Hiroyuki Ijiri and Yoichi Matsubayashi

THE EFFECT OF REVENUE SHARES ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT SPENDING: EVIDENCE FROM PHILIPPINE PROVINCES pp. 29-63

Tristan Canare

CAPITAL FLOW WAVES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: EVIDENCE FROM ADVANCED AND DEVELOPING ECONOMIES pp. 65-98

Su Wah Hlaing and Makoto Kakinaka

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CENTRAL BANK INTERVENTION: EVIDENCE FROM TAIWAN’S FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKET pp. 99-118

Dar-Hsin Chen and Ying-Hsin Lee

CHANGES OF ECONOMIC STRUCTURE, INTEREST GROUPS AND AGRICULTURAL-TRADE PROTECTION: THE CASE OF CHINA pp. 119-140

Wenshou Yan and Kaixing Huang

MEASURING THE TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF CEMENT INDUSTRY IN PAKISTAN pp. 141-155

Muhammad Zakaria, Xiuyun Yang and Saliha Mumshad

A NEW LOOK AT THE REMITTANCES-FDI- ENERGY-ENVIRONMENT NEXUS IN THE CASE OF SELECTED ASIAN NATIONS pp. 157-175

Zia Ur Rahman, Hongbo Cai and Manzoor Ahmad

MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF FIRM PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM TURKEY pp. 177-196

Ömer Doruk

SEARCHING FOR THE OPTIMAL LEVEL: INFLATION AND PRICE VARIABILITY IN TURKEY pp. 197-215

Hatice Karahan and M.â Ege Yazgan

LOCATION CHOICE AND TAX RESPONSIVENESS OF FOREIGN MULTINATIONALS: EVIDENCE FROM ASEAN COUNTRIES pp. 217-242

Athiphat Muthitacharoen

WAGE DISCRIMINATION IN INDIA’S FORMAL AND INFORMAL LABOR MARKETS pp. 243-263

Bhaskar Jyoti Neog and Bimal Kishore Sahoo

HOW DO RURAL HOUSEHOLDS PREFER TO ADAPT LIVELIHOODS TO ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF CLIMATE AND POLICY CHANGES? pp. 265-284

Yuan Zheng, Jette Bredahl Jacobsen, Bo Thorsen and Zhen Liu

OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE, ACQUISITIONS AND EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION: EVIDENCE FROM PUBLICLY LISTED CHINESE COMPANIES pp. 285-315

Lili Kang, Sajid Anwar and Fei Peng

BOOK REVIEW — Win: How Public Entrepreneurship Can Transform the Developing World pp. 317-318

Tomoki Fujii