This paper tests for evidence of contagion between the financial markets of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea, and …

towards non-regular employment despite women's high education levels. This paper empirically examines what helps Japan and … Korea to increase FLFP by type (i.e., regular vs. non-regular employment), using the SVAR model. In so doing, we compare … tend to reduce the proportion of regular female employment in Japan and Korea, (ii) the persistent gender wage gap …

(FDEs) in Asia. This paper finds that spillovers emanating from the U.S. on FDEs in Asia have been small. The relative … insulation of emerging Asia from the global financial cycle can likely be attributed to the presence of managed capital accounts … developing Asia is likely to be small …

The prolonged investment decline in post-Asian crisis emerging Asia, in contrast to the swift recovery of economic …. Empirical results based on macro and firm-level data from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand (ASEAN-3) support this hypothesis …

, however, was not uniform. Even in a relatively homogenous group of countries such as ASEAN-4 (Indonesia, Malaysia, the … impact on more open economies (Malaysia and Thailand). Second, countercyclical fiscal stimulus in Indonesia and the …

Malaysia's local currency debt market is one of the most liquid public debt markets in theworld. In recent years, the …-stage model to estimate the main drivers of debt capital flows to Malaysia. Finally, it usesa GARCH model to test the hypothesis … Malaysia respondsadequately to both pull and push factors and find no firm evidence that nonresident flows causevolatility in …

SAR, Korea, Malaysia, Poland, and Romania. Insights include: rapid growth in high-LTV loans with long maturities or in the …