Showing papers in "Journal of Asian Economics in 2022"

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper collected panel data of 30 Chinese provinces from 2000 to 2015, using the GS3SLS method to find the interactive relationship for industrial transfer and environmental quality.

TL;DR: In this paper , a Modified Environmental, Social, Governance (MESG) index was introduced to measure the level of engagement in corporate social responsibility in the context of Green Credit Guidelines in China.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors explored whether and how the issuance of green bonds affects firm value in China from January 2015 to September 2020, and found that the expected positive effect of green bond issuance on firm value is highly evident in non-state-owned firms, small firms, firms in green finance pilot zones, and firms in the eastern region.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined the deterioration of the Korean labor market during the first 10 months of the global COVID-19 pandemic, and found that the outbreak has eliminated 1.1 million jobs (4.2% of nonfarm employment) nationwide in April 2020.

TL;DR: In this article , a hybrid model named VMD-autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) and Taylor expansion forecasting (TEF) is proposed to increase accuracy and stability for predicting financial time series.

TL;DR: The authors empirically examined the impact of selective industrial policy on corporate investment efficiency within a difference-in-differences framework, and showed that the revitalization plan has a significant and negative effect on investment efficiency by boosting over-investment while having little influence on underinvestment.

TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper empirically examined the impact of selective industrial policy on corporate investment efficiency within a difference-in-differences framework, and showed that the revitalization plan has a significant and negative effect on Corporate investment efficiency by boosting overinvestment while having little influence on under-investment.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the sleeplessness in Chinese cities during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and provided evidence of a link from daily COVID-2019 cases resulting in sleep loss in a panel of Chinese cities.

TL;DR: In this article , the effect of trade policy uncertainty on firm export behavior using panel data of Chinese listed companies in the industrial sector was analyzed on the basis of new structural economics theory and heterogeneity of firm viability.

TL;DR: In this article , the causal linkages among U.S. monetary policy uncertainty, equity market volatility, and China's stock price index over the period from January 1994 to August 2021 were investigated.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors compared the contagion effect of four such crises viz. the Asian financial crisis, the US subprime crisis, Eurozone debt crisis, and the currently ongoing Covid-19 crisis on Asian stock markets to understand which of these has had the most severe impact.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper examined how China's income tax revenue sharing reform in 2002 affects corporate financial performance and found that after the reform, the effective EIT rate (ETR) of enterprises collected EIT by the State Administration of Taxation (SAT) was 10% lower than the EIT of enterprises received by the local administration of taxation (LAT).

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors explored the influence of parenthood on the gender wage gap in urban China in 2002 and 2018 and found that the employment rate was lower for women than men in both childless and with child groups, and the gender gap expanded from 2002 to 2018.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated the evolution of human capital in China for 31 provinces over the period of 1985-2016 from a club convergence perspective, finding that a small group of provinces are converging toward the highest levels of human resources, while most of the other provinces are failing to catch up and form separate clusters that converge to lower equilibria.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated the relationship between the level of CO 2 emissions and important economic variables in the context of five South Asian countries over a period of 1974-2017.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined how the world trade network has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic, with a particular focus on ASEAN countries and found no evidence that the relative importance of these countries changed significantly after the pandemic began.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the internal mechanism of anti-corruption as a moderator for the relationship between environmental regulations and enterprise financial performance, and investigated whether anticorruption can help realize the strong Porter Hypothesis.

TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper studied the intra-generational mobility of households in the top fractiles of earnings, income, and wealth distributions in China using the panel data of the 2011-2017 China Household Finance Survey.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined the links between a selected group of institutional factors and income inequalities and found that improvements in institutional factors, namely economic freedom, corruption control, government effectiveness, regulation quality, and voice and accountability, significantly reduced income inequalities during the era reformasi in Indonesia.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors assess the nexus between export, productivity, and competitiveness in the Indian manufacturing sector and recommend that policy focus on enhancing the export capacity of manufacturing firms to further strengthen the competitiveness of Indian manufacturing.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated the relationship between decentralization and poverty using Indonesian provincial-level data from 2001 to 2018 by way of panel data estimation and provided robust evidence that the implementation of Indonesian fiscal decentralization contributes to poverty reduction outcomes.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated the connectedness among three types of economic policy uncertainties, namely monetary, fiscal, and trade uncertainties, between China and the US, and used the spillover index measurement and the frequency-domain decomposition approach to detect spillover effects of these categorical uncertainties from both the time and frequency domain perspectives.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors find that households reduce their consumption in response to higher economic policy uncertainty (EPU), which can be explained by the portfolio choice of illiquid asset and liquid asset.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and their workers in eight developing economies in South, Southeast, and Northeast Asia.

TL;DR: In this article , a theoretical model of heterogeneous firms is built that emphasizes how human capital inflow (HCI) affects a firm’s innovation, and it shows that when HCI increases, the cost of a firm's innovation decreases, the relative innovation efficiency gap between any two patents decreases, and the quality of each existing patent increases.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined the impact of the 2003 SARS epidemic on the total factor productivity (TFP) of Chinese industrial enterprises using a difference-in-differences (DID) approach.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated the impact of financial development on rural residents' income and consumption levels in China and found that the development of traditional financial services has little impact on the income or consumption levels of rural residents.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examine whether bilateral and multilateral regional trade agreements (RTAs) can improve the quality of exported products among Chinese manufacturing enterprises, thereby expanding on a new policy research area that focuses on improving Chinese export quality or import quality of RTAs trade partners from China.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated whether the implementation of China's the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) affects the sustainable innovation ability of firms by using data on firms listed on Chinese A-share markets from 2011 to 2017.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the effects of Fintech on enterprise financing based on China's provincial panel data and concluded that more shadow banks and private enterprises, or higher digitalization, marketization, and securitization levels, will improve the efficiency of technology-driven disintermediation.