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Financial crisis, IMF and bank efficiency: empirical evidence from the ASEAN-4 countries
Sufian, Fadzlan - In: International Journal of Services, Economics and Management 2 (2010) 2, pp. 148-179
A variety of methodologies have been employed to examine the impact of the 1997 Asian financial crisis on the crisis-affected countries economies. However, the impact of crisis on the efficiency of the financial industry has yet to be studied. By employing the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)...
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Unchained Melody: Economic performance after the Asian crisis
Beja, Edsel Jr. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand have not recouped their losses from the 1997 Asian Crisis …
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Infrastructure and Income Distribution in ASEAN-5; What are the Links?
Seneviratne, Dulani; Sun, Yan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
Adequate infrastructure has long been viewed as an important factor in economic development. Based on regressions covering 76 advanced and emerging market economies, this paper estimates the impact of infrastructure and investment on income distribution. It finds that better infrastructure, both...
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Location choice in low-income countries : evidence from Japanese investments in East Asia
Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Tsubota, Kenmei - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
Unlike most existing studies, this paper examines the location choices of MNEs in developing countries. Specifically, we investigate the location choices of Japanese MNEs among East Asian developing countries by estimating a four-stage nested logit model at the province level. Noteworthy results...
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Selection of stock markets: a factor analysis approach
Hui, Tak Kee; Tsui, Kai Chong; Chua, David - In: International Journal of Applied Management Science 2 (2010) 2, pp. 136-151
This study uses factor analysis to simplify the complex relationships among stock markets and to reduce the number of markets required for portfolio construction. Our sample consists of the US and 11 Asia-Pacific stock markets. We find that the reduced portfolio obtained from factor analysis has...
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Revenue enhancement and wealth effects of mergers and acquisitions in Asian emerging markets
Ma, Jianyu; Pagan, Jose A.; Chu, Yun - In: International Journal of Revenue Management 4 (2010) 2, pp. 179-194
Revenue enhancement and value creation are core issues of mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Revenue enhancing synergy associated with cross-industry M&A is supported by Asian emerging markets. Both within-industry M&A and cross-industry M&A deals realise significant positive abnormal returns. The...
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The Big Split: Why Did Output Trajectories in the ASEAN-4 Diverge after the Global Financial Crisis?
Isnawangsih, Agnes; Klyuev, Vladimir; Zhang, Longmei - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
impact on more open economies (Malaysia and Thailand). Second, countercyclical fiscal stimulus in Indonesia and the … Philippines was larger and was sustained longer. Third, idiosyncratic factors pushed output up in Indonesia and down in Thailand …, however, was not uniform. Even in a relatively homogenous group of countries such as ASEAN-4 (Indonesia, Malaysia, the …
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Are trade deficits sustainable? Evidence from the ASEAN-five
Tiwari, Aviral Kumar - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) January, pp. 68-82
-five economies, viz., Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Myanmar and Thailand, in the presence of structural breaks. Design … relation between exports and imports for Indonesia, Myanmar and Thailand; and finds sustainable long-run trade deficit only for … cointegration between exports and imports for Malaysia and the Philippines. This result suggests that macroeconomic policies have …
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Rural credit: a source of sustainable livelihood of rural India
Akoijam, Sunildro L.S. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) January, pp. 83-97
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the issues and concerns of Indian rural credit, which is a powerful tool for enhancing production and productivity and for poverty alleviation. Further it highlights some of the strategies adopted by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to increase the...
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The Middle-Income Trap: Issues for Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Tho, Tran Van - Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank - 2013
The problem faced by many of the economies making up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is whether they can avoid the middle-income trap and advance to the high-income level. What is needed for them to avoid the middle-income trap? This paper attempts to answer this question by...
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