Advances in Pacific Basin Business, Economics and Finance

by Cheng-Few Lee (Editor), Min-Teh Yu (Editor)

Overview

Advances in Pacific Basin Business, Economics and Finance (APBBEF) is a series designed to focus on interdisciplinary research in finance, economics, and management among Pacific Rim countries. All articles published are peer-reviewed and recommended by one editorial board member. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. Policy and management on financial markets and financial institutions;
2. Options, futures, and other derivatives markets;
3. Corporate finance and investment decisions;
4. Insurance and risk management;
5. Accounting, auditing, and taxation;
6. Artificial intelligence and new technology in finance;
7. ESG and sustainability;
8. Income, employment, and education;
9. Monetary and foreign exchange policy;
10. Other economic policies among the Pacific Rim countries.

APBBEF is indexed in ABI/INFORM, EconLit, EBSCO, ProQuest, ResearchGate, and Google Scholar. Manuscript submission: Please use an email attachment in Microsoft Word format or PDF to Dr. Min-Teh Yu ([e-mail]) or Dr. Cheng-Few Lee ([e-mail]).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781837538652
Publisher:	Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication date:	04/04/2024
Series:	Advances in Pacific Basin Business, Economics and Finance , #12
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

Dr. Cheng-Few Lee is Distinguished Professor of Finance at Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University, USA, where he was chairperson of the Department of Finance from 1988-1995. Professor Lee is also the founder of the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting in 1990 and the Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies in 1998.

Dr. Min-Teh Yu is UniversityChair Professor at Providence Universityand National Tsing Hua University. He was President of Providence Universityand China University of Technology, and Dean of College of Management at Yuan Ze Universityand National Chiao Tung University. He has been associate editor and guest editor for Pacific Basin Finance Journal, Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, International Review of Economics and Finance, etc.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Corporate Pension Funding and Investments: Evidence from Asia Pacific Countries; Yong H. Kim, Bochen Li, Miyoun Paek, and Tong Yu
Chapter 2. Seasoning Effects in Corporate Bond Markets; Haoyu Gao, Ruixiang Jiang, Junbo Wang, and Xiaoguang Yang
Chapter 3. Evidence of Gold as a Hedge or Safe haven Against Risks and Policy Uncertainty; Thomas C. Chiang
Chapter 4. Smart Learning: Information Role of Leading Security Analysts; Chia-Wei Huang, Chih-Yen Lin, and Chin-Te Yu
Chapter 5. How Well Do Banks Manage Their Credit Risk? A DEA Approach; Ren-Raw Chen and Chu-Hua Kuei
Chapter 6. Liquidity and Other Risk Factors: Evidence from the Chinese Stock Market; Yan He, Ruixiang Jiang, Yanchu Wang, and Hongquan Zhu
Chapter 7. Optimizing Portfolios with ESG, Dividends, Volatility Factors via Machine Learning; Hsing-Hua Chang, Chen-Hsin Lai, Kuen-Liang Lin, and Shih-Kuei Lin
Chapter 8. Investor Reactions to Major Events in the Global Financial Crisis in Europe and Asia-Pacific; Emre Bulut and Başak Tanyeri-Günsür
Chapter 9. The Impacts of Institutional Shareholdings on Stock Price Informativeness, Stock Price Crash Risk, and Post-Crash Returns; De-Wai Chou, Pi-Hsia Hung, and Lin Lin
Chapter 10. Firms, Context, and Bribery in a Transition Economy; Phan Anh Tu
Chapter 11. Does National Culture Matter for Herding Behavior among Stock Market Investors?; Kwang-Jing Yii, Zi-Han Soh, Lin-Hui Chia, Khoo Shiang-Lin Jaslyn, Lok-Yew Chong, and Zi-Chong Fu
Chapter 12. Intertemporal Decision: Do Financial Literacy and the Framing Effect Matter in the Malaysian Context?; Tze-Wei Ooi and Wee-Yeap Lau
Chapter 13. Value relevance of accounting information and the moments of bias rate: Evidence from the IT companies in FTSE Taiwan 50; Chih-Chen Hsu, Kai-Chieh Chia, and Yu- Chieh Chang

Editorial Reviews

Economists and business scholars report on recent findings and current conditions regarding commercial concerns around the Pacific Basin. Their topics include related party transactions and institutional investors in Chinese listed companies, the economic cost of myopic going concern practice, how equity mispricing and long-term growth opportunities influence the firm-level capital structured dynamics of Taiwanese publicly listed firms, how board structures of Thai firms influence different quantile levels of firm performance, the role of institutional quality on the environmental Kuznets curve: a comparative study in developed and developing countries, and an empirical analysis of the impact of employment on the first-birth decision for married women in Taiwan.

Annotation ©2018

This volume in the series on commerce around the Pacific presents 11 studies of such topics as optimal trading and tax option value of defaultable bonds with asymmetric capital gain taxes, the empirical analysis of economic policy uncertainty and stock returns in Asian markets, the impact of corporate social responsibility on financial performance: evidence from commercial banks in Mongolia, a logistic analysis of what makes listed subsidiaries delist in Japan, and whether unsolicited bank credit ratings matter to bank leverage decisions: evidence from Asian countries.

Copyright 2019

The series focuses on business, economics, and finance in the Pacific Basin. This year's topics include how and where to regulate the systemic and nonperformance risks of insurance contracts and derivatives that substitute for them, stock market activities and industrial production growth: evidence from 20 international markets, bank capital standards and subordinated debt prices, human capital investment inequality and rural-urban income gap: evidence from China, and an operational efficiency analysis for organizational consolidation in the business operating departments of a case telecom company.

Annotation ©2017