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Volume 65, issue supp01, 2020

INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE POVERTY-GROWTH-INEQUALITY TRIANGLE IN CHINA AND OTHER COUNTRIES pp. 1-6

Guanghua Wan, Haitao Wu and Yuan Zhang

MEASURING INEQUALITY, POVERTY, GROWTH AND WELFARE VIA THE USE OF ASSET INDEXES: THE CASE OF ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN AND GEORGIA pp. 7-33

Joseph Deutsch, Jacques Silber, Yongsheng Xu and Guanghua Wan

SOCIO-ECONOMIC GROUPS, UPWARD AND DOWNWARD MOBILITY: AN AXIOMATIC FRAMEWORK AND INCOME MOBILITY IN CHINA FROM 1989–2011 pp. 35-56

Lezheng Liu, Baoyun Qiao, Xiaoyu Wu and Yongsheng Xu

THE IMPACTS OF GLOBALIZATION ON THE LABOR SHARE: EVIDENCE FROM ASIA pp. 57-73

Xiaoshan Hu, Guanghua Wan and Jing Wang

FINTECH, GROWTH AND INEQUALITY: EVIDENCE FROM CHINA’S HOUSEHOLD SURVEY DATA pp. 75-93

Xun Zhang, Jiajia Zhang, Guanghua Wan and Zhi Luo

POVERTY REDUCTION IN CHINA AND INDIA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY pp. 95-115

Tongjin Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Guanghua Wan and Haitao Wu

FOUR DECADES OF POVERTY AND CONSUMPTION IN CHINA pp. 117-138

Jinxian Wang, Chen Wang and Yan Zhang

NEGOTIATING POVERTY LINE-STUDY ON DENSITY EFFECT AROUND THE POVERTY LINE FOR INDIAN STATES pp. 139-160

M. Balaji

AGRICULTURAL CREDITS AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY: CROSS-COUNTRY EVIDENCE pp. 161-183

Ünal Seven and Semih Tumen

CREAM-SKIMMER OR UNDERDOG? A CASE STUDY OF LABOR TYPE SELECTIVITY IN A RURAL LABOR TRAINING PROGRAM IN CHINA pp. 185-210

Yiu Por (vincent) Chen

URBANIZATION AND MIGRANT WORKERS’ CITIZENSHIP: THE CASE OF VIETNAM pp. 211-232

Huong Vo

EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION IN INDIAN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES: A LOGIT ANALYSIS pp. 233-259

Arun Kumar Bairwa, Jadhav Chakradhar and Pritee Sharma

Volume 65, issue 06, 2020

CAUSES OF HAZE AND ITS HEALTH EFFECTS IN SINGAPORE: A REPLICATION STUDY pp. 1367-1387

Jan Kiviet

THE ENVIRONMENTAL VALUE OF SOUTH KOREA’S MOUNTAINS: A CONTINGENT VALUATION STUDY pp. 1389-1400

Dong-Pil Kim, Kee-Rae Kang, Hae-Joo Lee, Hee-Chae Kim, Woo-Sung Lee, Bo-Kwang Chung, Su-Bok Chae and Cha-Kwon Kim

HOW URBANIZATION AFFECTS ENERGY-ENVIRONMENT EFFICIENCY: EVIDENCE FROM CHINA pp. 1401-1422

Yufeng Chen, Zhitao Zhu and Xi Yu

IN PURSUIT OF UNDERSTANDING MARKUPS IN RESTAURANT SERVICES PRICES pp. 1423-1437

Utku Ozmen

ESTIMATING THE CROSS-STRAIT PERFORMANCE OF A LOCAL COFFEE CHAIN THROUGH NETWORK META-FRONTIER DEA pp. 1439-1455

Zebin Wang, Yung-Ho Chiu, Jin-Chi Hsieh, Ying Li, Yu-Chuan Chen and Yi-Cheng Jan

THE DETERMINANTS OF BANK CAPITAL STRUCTURE IN THE WORLD pp. 1457-1489

Dung Tran, M. Kabir Hassan, Andrea Paltrinieri and Trung Duc Nguyen

COMPETITION, RISK AND PROFITABILITY IN BANKING SYSTEM — EVIDENCE FROM VIETNAM pp. 1491-1505

Thi Hien Nguyen and Ha Giang Tran

THE EFFECTS OF COMPETITION ON EFFICIENCY: THE VIETNAMESE BANKING INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE pp. 1507-1536

Thanh Pham Thien Nguyen and Hong Son Nghiem

CAUSALITY BETWEEN PEER-TO-PEER LENDING AND BANK LENDING IN CHINA: EVIDENCE FROM A PANEL DATA APPROACH pp. 1537-1557

Tsung-Pao Wu, Hung-Che Wu, Shu-Bing Liu, Hsin-Pei Hsueh and Chien-Ming Wang

IPO UNDERPRICING AND INFORMATION QUALITY OF PROSPECTUSES pp. 1559-1577

Kuo Zhou, Baicheng Zhou and Huaxiao Liu

RETAIL INVESTORS’ BIASED BELIEFS ABOUT STOCKS THAT THEY HOLD: EVIDENCE FROM CHINA’S SPLIT SHARE STRUCTURE REFORM pp. 1579-1599

Yan Luo, Xiaolin Qian, Jinjuan Ren and Yanjian Zhu

HAS MONETARY POLICY CAUSED HOUSING PRICES TO RISE OR FALL IN CHINA? pp. 1601-1618

Xiao-Cui Yin, Chi-Wei Su and Ran Tao

THE MACROECONOMIC EFFECTS OF ENHANCED REFORMS IN CHINA pp. 1619-1644

Zhihong Jian and Yeqing Yang

RE-MEASUREMENT OF SHORT-TERM INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL FLOWS AND ITS APPLICATION: EVIDENCE FROM CHINA pp. 1645-1665

Junyi Shi

IDENTIFICATION AND PREDICTION OF CURRENCY CRISIS: MARKOV SWITCHING-BASED APPROACH pp. 1667-1698

Jiangze Du, Runfang Yu and Kin Keung Lai

TAX REFORM AND ECONOMIC GROWTH NEXUS IN INDIA: EVIDENCE FROM THE COINTEGRATION AND ROLLING-WINDOW CAUSALITY pp. 1699-1725

Narayan Sethi, Saileja Mohanty, Sanhita Sucharita and Nanthakumar Loganathan

TRADE POLICY SPACE AND EXPORT PRODUCT DIVERSIFICATION pp. 1727-1752

Sèna Kimm Gnangnon

WAGE INEQUALITY, UNEMPLOYMENT, AND EXPORT-ORIENTED POLICY pp. 1753-1772

Chu-Ping Lo

INCOME, SOCIAL SECURITY AND CHINESE FAMILIES’ “TWO-CHILD” DECISIONS: EVIDENCE FROM URBAN RESIDENTS’ FERTILITY INTENTIONS pp. 1773-1796

Zhangsheng Liu and Yuanyuan Gong

Volume 65, issue 05, 2020

SPECIAL ISSUE ON PRODUCTIVITY: INTRODUCTION pp. 1157-1159

Filippo di Mauro

PROMOTING HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY IN CHINA — DOES INNOVATION EXPENDITURE REALLY MATTER? pp. 1161-1183

Filippo di Mauro, Minh Duy Hoang and Johannes Van Biesebroeck

HETEROGENEOUS EFFECTS OF CREDIT ACCESS ON FORMAL AND INFORMAL FIRM GROWTH: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM VIETNAM pp. 1185-1211

Trinh Long, Peter Morgan and Minh Binh Tran

IS RESOURCE MISALLOCATION LEADING TO PRODUCTIVITY GAPS IN MALAYSIA’S MANUFACTURING SECTOR? pp. 1213-1235

Lay Lian Chuah, Norman Loayza and Ha Nguyen

DO CONGLOMERATES OPERATE MORE EFFICIENTLY THAN SINGLE-SEGMENT FIRMS? pp. 1237-1270

Nilabhra Bhattacharya, Johan Sulaeman and Jeff Yu

GOVERNMENT COMMERCIALIZATION GRANTS AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE pp. 1271-1291

Sasan Bakhtiari and Angelina Bruno

COMPLEMENTARITY BETWEEN TANGIBLE AND INTANGIBLE CAPITAL: EVIDENCE FROM JAPANESE FIRM-LEVEL DATA pp. 1293-1321

Kaoru Hosono, Daisuke Miyakawa, Miho Takizawa and Kenta Yamanouchi

INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL AND PERFORMANCE IN THE SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY pp. 1323-1348

Kuo-Cheng Kuo, Wen-Min Lu and Grace Tzu-Yi Chang

INDIGENOUS INNOVATION, FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND THE EXPORT PERFORMANCE OF CHINA’S MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES pp. 1349-1366

Ying Ma and Abdul Rauf

Volume 65, issue 04, 2020

ASIA’S EMERGENCE IN GLOBAL BEVERAGE MARKETS: THE RISE OF WINE* pp. 755-779

Kym Anderson

DETERMINANTS OF FERTILITY IN THE LONG RUN pp. 781-804

Jong-Wha Lee

CAN BRICS’S CURRENCY BE A HEDGE OR A SAFE HAVEN FOR ENERGY PORTFOLIO? AN EVIDENCE FROM VINE COPULA APPROACH pp. 805-836

Yijin He, Tadahiro Nakajima and Shigeyuki Hamori

INFLUENCE OF MACROECONOMIC STABILITY ON FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN DEVELOPING ECONOMIES: EVIDENCE FROM WEST AFRICAN REGION pp. 837-856

Kizito Uyi Ehigiamusoe, Hooi Hooi Lean and Jin Chan

ASYMMETRIC EFFECTS OF EXCHANGE RATE VOLATILITY ON BILATERAL TRADE BETWEEN TAIWAN AND INDONESIA pp. 857-888

Mei-Se Chien, Nur Setyowati and Chih-Yang Cheng

THE EX-DIVIDEND-DAY BEHAVIOR OF STOCK PRICES AND VOLUME: THE CASE OF PHARMACEUTICAL DIVIDEND ARISTOCRATS pp. 889-915

Teplova Tamara, Qaiser Munir and Kapichnikova Maria

THE EFFECTS OF U.S. UNCONVENTIONAL MONETARY POLICY ON ASIAN STOCK MARKETS pp. 917-945

Chien-Chiang Lee, Mei-Ping Chen and Chun-Chie Huang

R&D, FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS AND PRODUCTIVITY: EVIDENCE FROM THE CHINESE INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES pp. 947-967

Mingli Xu, Wei Yang, Lirang Pang and Dongmin Kong

DIRECT EFFECT OF INWARD FDI AND TARGET FIRM PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE WITH CHINESE FIRM-LEVEL DATA pp. 969-1005

Se Chen and Mingxian Li

FINANCING FOR INNOVATION OF CHINESE LISTED FIRMS pp. 1007-1032

Ju Xiaosheng, Chen Jiao and Tan Qi

NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION FOR SECOND-ORDER JUMP-DIFFUSION MODEL IN HIGH FREQUENCY DATA pp. 1033-1063

Yuping Song

IS THERE MORE OR LESS COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN SYSTEMS WHEN CONSUMERS ARE KEENER ON A RIVAL SYSTEM’S SOFTWARE? pp. 1065-1072

Chung-Hui Chou

CITY SIZE, LABOR PRODUCTIVITY AND WAGES IN KOREA pp. 1073-1098

Bun Song Lee, Sung Hyo Hong and Mark Wohar

THE ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVE FOR CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS AND TRADE ON BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE COUNTRIES: A SPATIAL PANEL DATA APPROACH pp. 1099-1126

Yasir Khan and Qiu Bin

BANK DIVERSIFICATION, COMPETITION AND LIQUIDITY CREATION: EVIDENCE FROM MALAYSIAN BANKS pp. 1127-1156

Moau Yong Toh, Christopher Gan and Zhaohua Li

Volume 65, issue 03, 2020

SPECIAL ISSUE ON ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE IN ASIA: INTRODUCTION pp. 551-553

Fuhai Hong and Nori Tarui

HAS ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION RESTRAINED SMOG POLLUTION: EVIDENCE FROM CHINA pp. 555-575

Shoufeng Huang and Dengta Chen

DOES MEDIA ATTENTION AFFECT FIRMS’ ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION EFFORTS? EVIDENCE FROM CHINA pp. 577-600

Gaowen Kong, Dongmin Kong and Maobin Wang

CROSS-BOUNDARY AIR POLLUTION CONTROL UNDER “ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS”: PERSPECTIVES FROM HONG KONG–GUANGDONG COLLABORATION pp. 601-625

Ting Yin Tiffany Wong, Yuan Xu and Youngho Chang

THE DETERMINANTS OF WASTE-SORTING INTENTION AND BEHAVIOR AMONG CHINESE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS: A CASE STUDY IN BEIJING pp. 627-652

Yu Hao, Ling-Ou Wang, Xi-Sheng Chen and Lu Wang

LIVELIHOOD IN BHITARKANIKA WILDLIFE SANCTUARY, INDIA: AN IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF ECOTOURISM PRACTICES pp. 653-681

Madhumita Das and Bani Chatterjee

HUMAN CAPITAL AND ENERGY: A DRIVER OR DRAG FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH pp. 683-714

Youngho Chang, Zheng Fang and Shigeyuki Hamori

POLICY CHOICES FOR AIR POLLUTION ABATEMENT IN BEIJING: STATUS QUO OR CHANGE pp. 715-736

Shaojie Zhou, Xiaohua Yu and Dieter Koemle

TRACEABILITY INFORMATION AND WILLINGNESS TO PAY: THE CASE OF PORK pp. 737-754

Jiao Lu, Hongsha Wang, Linhai Wu and Xiujuan Chen

Volume 65, issue 02, 2020

LONG RANGE DEPENDENCE AND STRUCTURAL BREAKS IN THE GOLD MARKETS pp. 257-273

Terence Tai Leung Chong, Chenxi Lu and Wing Hong Chan

DOES GOLD INVESTMENT OFFER PROTECTION AGAINST STOCK MARKET LOSSES? EVIDENCE FROM FIVE COUNTRIES pp. 275-301

Mohd Fahmi Ghazali, Hooi Hooi Lean and Zakaria Bahari

FINANCIAL STABILITY AND THE ROLE OF ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL INTEGRATION IN SOUTH ASIA: EVIDENCE FROM TIME-SERIES DATA pp. 303-333

Samia Nasreen and Sofia Anwar

FRAGMENTATION, SKILL FORMATION AND INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL MOBILITY pp. 335-350

Sudeshna Mitra and Kausik Gupta

THE REGIONAL ASYMMETRIC RESPONSES TO CENTRAL BANK’S MONETARY POLICY IN PAKISTAN pp. 351-364

Naseem Faraz and Zainab Iftikhar

THE CAPITAL FLIGHT FROM INDIA: A CASE OF MISSING WOODS FOR TREES? pp. 365-383

Ashis Pradhan and Gourishankar Hiremath

EVALUATION OF COMPLEMENTARITY EFFECT OF INNOVATION POLICIES: VENTURE CERTIFICATION AND INNO-BIZ CERTIFICATION IN KOREA pp. 385-402

Seunghwan Oh, Dongnyok Shim and Daeho Lee

EXPORT AND INVENTORY: EVIDENCE FROM CHINESE FIRMS pp. 403-417

Xiaotao Zhao and Xiaoping Chen

VOLUNTARY VERIFIABLE INFORMATION DISCLOSURE AND LOAN FUNDING PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM PAIPAIDAI IN CHINA pp. 419-441

Ying Li, Jacky So and Jia Yuan

CONTRACTING-OUT OF HOUSEHOLD WASTE COLLECTION SERVICES IN JAPAN pp. 443-455

Norimichi Matsueda and Jun’ichi Miki

AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES AND PERFORMANCE IN KNOWLEDGE-INTENSIVE BUSINESS SERVICES pp. 457-469

Cui Zhang

THE IMPACT OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE ON ECONOMIC GROWTH pp. 471-484

Dieu Thanh Le and Hail Park

REAL WAGE STAGNANCY: EVIDENCE FROM TAIWAN pp. 485-506

Li-Hsuan Huang and Hsin-Yi Huang

THE STATUS QUO IN DISCRETE CHOICE EXPERIMENTS: IS IT RELEVANT? pp. 507-532

Wan Norhidayah W Mohamad, Ken Willis and Neil Powe

BEQUEST AND MORAL HAZARD IN FAMILY pp. 533-550

Insook Lee

Volume 65, issue 01, 2020

EDITORIAL: SPECIAL ISSUE ON ECONOMIC GROWTH pp. 1-2

James Ang

A FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYZING THE IMPACT OF FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION ON MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE, GOVERNANCE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH pp. 3-39

Umaima Arif and Eatzaz Ahmad

DEMOCRACY AND GROWTH: A DYNAMIC PANEL DATA STUDY pp. 41-80

Jeffry A. Jacob and Thomas Osang

THE ROLE OF EDUCATED LEADERS IN ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT: EVIDENCE FROM CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC AND SINGAPORE pp. 81-102

Oluwole Owoye and Olugbenga Onafowora

CORRUPTION AND INNOVATION: LINEAR AND NONLINEAR INVESTIGATIONS OF OECD COUNTRIES pp. 103-129

Jun Wen, Mingbo Zheng, Gen-Fu Feng, Sunwu Winfred Chen and Chun-Ping Chang

ASSESSING THE DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD OF USING IMITATION AS A STEPPING STONE TO INNOVATION: A CASE OF MALAYSIA’S K-ECONOMY PUZZLE pp. 131-159

King Yoong Lim

STUDY ON CHINA’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF STRONG SUSTAINABILITY pp. 161-192

Wanping Yang and Jinkai Zhao

THE INFLUENCE OF RELIGION AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY ON FINANCIAL INCLUSION pp. 193-216

Dai-Won Kim, Jung-Suk Yu and M. Kabir Hassan

TAX STRUCTURE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: DO DIFFERENCES IN INCOME LEVEL AND GOVERNMENT EFFECTIVENESS MATTER? pp. 217-237

Halit Yanıkkaya and Taner Turan

THE IMPACTS OF BIASED RESOURCE ALLOCATION ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE pp. 239-256

Sung-Ko Li and Chun-Kei Tsang