Advances in Pacific Basin Business, Economics and Finance / Edition 1

by Cheng-Few Lee

Overview

This second volume in the series discusses such topics as the implications of mainland China and Taiwan's joining GATT on cross straits economic relations and capital structure, market fundamentals and stock returns.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762301027
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date:	06/25/1996
Series:	Advances in Pacific Basin Business, Economics and Finance , #2
Pages:	372
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.87(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

Implications of mainland China and Taiwan's joining GATT on cross straits economic relations, Wuu Long Lin; regulating futures trading in mainland China - a reflection, Raymond Chiang; the Futures Market in mainland China - a growing perspective, Tian Yuan; the embryonic development of a Stock Exchange in communist China - the Shanghai Securities Exchange, Chuen Mei, Liang Shang Fan; seasonality in international portfolio diversification, Gordon Y.N. Tang, Johnny K.H. Kwok; capital structure, market fundamentals and stock reforms, Chau Chen Yang; international diversification - a focus on the Pacific Rim, J. Kenton Zunwalt, Christopher A. Parrillo; empirical investigation on the efficiency of the Hong Kong traded warrants market, Kam Hong Kwok; the cost structure of Philippines banks, Ming Hua Liu et al; a study of the financial deregulation and internationalization in Taiwan, the Republic of China, Peter Pei-Ta Yang; the integration of international capital markets, Chunchi Wu, Yong-Chern Su; bringing futures to Asia, K.C. Leong; does the underpricing of unseasoned new issues profitable opportunity? an aggregate empirical analysis, Eva C. Yen, Gill Yen; international cooperation on competition policy - issues, existing models and implications for Asia-Pacific countries, Rong-I Wu, Yun-Peng Chu; environmental responsibility and disclosures in the global business environment, Bikki Jaggi; Japanese toehold investment in U.S. companies - some empirical evidence, Cral R. Chen, Nancy J. Mohan; the Sino-British accord and the changing industrial structure of Hong Kong, Ira Horowitz; on the determinants of mergers in the manufacturing sector - Japan versus the United States, Chen Kun-Ming, Gili yen; public pensions and factor intensity of manufacturing in Taiwan, Jain-Rong Su et al; re-examining the hedging behaviour and investor's risk aversion in the currency Futures Markets - mean-variance versus extended Mean-Gini approach, Dar-Yeh Hwang et al.

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