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 is an annual publication designed to focus on interdisciplinary research in finance, economics, and management among Pacific Rim countries. All articles published are reviewed and recommended by at least two members of editorial board. 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. Marketing, management, and business policies of the Pacific Rim countries 
7. Interdisciplinary issues on supply chain, finance, and marketing
8. Monetary and foreign exchange policy
9. Income, employment and other economic policies among the Pacific Rim countries

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787564466
Publisher:	Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication date:	09/06/2018
Series:	Advances in Pacific Basin Business, Economics and Finance , #6
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Cheng-Few Lee is a Distinguished Professor of Finance at Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University and was chairperson of the Department of Finance from 1988–1995. He has also served on the faculty of the University of Illinois (IBE Professor of Finance) and the University of Georgia. He has maintained academic and consulting ties in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and the United States for the past three decades. He has been a consultant to many prominent groups including, the American Insurance Group, the World Bank, the United Nations and The Marmon Group Inc, and Polaris Financial Group. 
Min-Teh Yu is Chair Professor and President at China University of Technology, Taiwan. He is also Chair Professor at National Chiao Tung University and a research fellow at RIRC, National Cheng-Chi University. He was President of Providence University, Dean of National Chiao Tung University, Dean of Yuan Ze University, and Department Head at National Central University. He was also the President of Taiwan Risk and Insurance Association and a Board Director for the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association. He received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Board Structure and CEO Compensation: Evidence from the 1999 Financial Services Modernization Act (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act); I-Ju Chen, Hsin-Yu Liang, Carl R. Chen, and Jia-Ying Lin
Chapter 2. The Impacts of Inflation, Oil Price Appreciation, Energy Risk and Climate Policy Uncertainty on Stock Returns: Evidence from G7 Countries; Thomas C. Chiang
Chapter 3. Information Event Intensity and Stock Return Synchronicity: Evidence from Credit Rating Changes; Haoyu Gao, Ruixiang Jiang, and Junchao Xiao
Chapter 4. Transparency of Financial Statements on IPO Pricing around the Adoption of IFRS in an Economy of Little Information Asymmetry; Lanfeng Kao, Anlin Chen, and Chih-Hsiang Chen
Chapter 5. Is the CreditGrades Model Useful for Hedging CDSs?; Ricardo Esquil and Van Son Lai
Chapter 6. What Drives Change in the A-Share Premium in China?; Hsiao-Peng Fu and Wei Hua
Chapter 7. Analyzing China’s Low Fertility Rate from the Social Activity Perspective; Lichun Cai, Wei-Chiao Huang, and Guangjie Ning
Chapter 8. Regional Population Aging and Municipal Bond Financing Cost; Lin Hanwen, Tang Haobo, and Wu Yuhui
Chapter 9. Institutional Analysis of Flood Insurance Market in Japan: Based on Evolutionary Game and Prospect Theory; Jie Shao
Chapter 10. Does Corruption Matter for FDI in India? New Evidence from Nonlinear Autoregressive Distributed Lag; Karan Viresh Sangani, Kwang-Jing Yii, and Maggie May-Jean Tang
Chapter 11. The Relationship between Fear Sentiment and Stock Liquidity during the COVID-19 Pandemic; De-Wai Chou, Chih-Chun Chen, and Hsin-Yu Hu
Chapter 12. Time Latency in High-Frequency Trading within Cointegrated Financial Markets; Ting-Fu Chen, Chih-Chen Hsu, Kai-Chieh Chia, and Annjo Cheng
Chapter 13. The Relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Performance Stability: The Moderating Effects of Board Diversity; Yu-Chen Wei, Chu-Hsiung Lin, Pai-Wen Cheng, and Yi-Hung Lee

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

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

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

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.

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