Asian-Pacific Economic Literature最新文献

{"title":"List of reviewers","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/apel.12433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apel.12433","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44776,"journal":{"name":"Asian-Pacific Economic Literature","volume":"38 2","pages":"151-154"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142641325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"After the Coup: Myanmar's Political and Humanitarian Crises , Anthony Ware and Monique Skidmore (eds.) ANU Press, Canberra, Australia, 2023, 348 pp. ISBN (Print): 9781760466138","authors":"Adam McCarty, Katie Brennan","doi":"10.1111/apel.12430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apel.12430","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44776,"journal":{"name":"Asian-Pacific Economic Literature","volume":"38 2","pages":"146-149"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142642051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Shaping Long-Term Care in Emerging Asia: Policy and Country Experiences, Vasoontara S. Yiengprugsawan and John Piggott (eds), Routledge, London and New York, 2024, Pp. 137 + xxi ISBN 9780367674588 (hard back)","authors":"Philip O'Keefe","doi":"10.1111/apel.12431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apel.12431","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44776,"journal":{"name":"Asian-Pacific Economic Literature","volume":"38 2","pages":"149-150"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142642191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Coalitions Presidents Make: Presidential Power and Its Limits in Democratic Indonesia, Marcus Mietzner, Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2023, Pp. 285 + xvii, ISBN 9781501772641 (Hardcover)","authors":"R. William Liddle","doi":"10.1111/apel.12432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apel.12432","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This book establishes Marcus Mietzner as the preeminent scholar of the democratic Indonesian presidency. Most individual chapters are masterpieces of analysis. They are based on a quarter century of research, extensive interviews from the presidents on down, thorough grasp of the scholarship, plus press coverage, including obscure media. Most originally, Mietzner asserts that the stability of Indonesia's two 10-year coalitional presidencies is causally related to Indonesia's widely observed democratic decline over the same period. ‘It substantiates the hypothesis that while coalitional presidentialism helps to explain Indonesian democracy's endurance, it also caused and sustained many of its defects’ (p. 30). The book's innovative causal argument, however, fails to persuade. This is partly because of sharp and in the end fatal differences in the behaviour of the two presidents he examines (the first obeyed the democratic constitution, the second systematically degraded it). Importantly, Mietzner also fails to understand the main drivers of the economy, which hobbles his ability to evaluate their economic policy successes and failures and the implications for democracy and modernity.</p><p>Coalitional presidencies in the comparative politics literature occur in democracies with presidential (as opposed to Parliamentary) governments and multi-party systems. To govern stably, minority presidents have to build majority coalitions. In Indonesia, Mietzner argues, presidents govern not just through the legislature, but also by adding other state and non-state actors to their coalitions. Their goal is to ‘fend off impeachment and allow for more effective governance’ (p. 24). Adding these actors, Mietzner claims, better explains the Indonesian case and broadens our theoretical understanding.</p><p>Mietzner begins by locating Presidents Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2004–2014) and Joko Widodo (2014–2024) in their historical and institutional contexts. Indonesia's first two presidents, founding father Sukarno (1945–1965) and Army General Suharto (1966–1998), were autocrats with complex legacies. Mietzner's account is balanced and authoritative. The first test of his theory is to determine whether Presidents Yudhoyono and Widodo did in fact govern this way. How did each engage state and non-state actors: parties, legislature, military, police, bureaucracy, local governments, oligarchs, and Muslim organisations? In each chapter, the power resources, formal and informal, of the other actor (such as the parties, legislature, military and so on) are addressed first, followed by those of the president, then the engagement between them, followed by an illustrative case study. In many of these chapters, Mietzner's brilliant analysis is miles ahead of previous studies.</p><p>On parties, a puzzle for analysts is why have both presidents created oversized party coalitions in parliament? Mietzner shows that Indonesian parties perform multiple functions that overlap with","PeriodicalId":44776,"journal":{"name":"Asian-Pacific Economic Literature","volume":"38 2","pages":"140-144"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/apel.12432","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142642083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fixing the Foundation—Teachers and Basic Education in East Asia and Pacific, Rythia Afkar, Tara Beteille, Mary E. Breeding, Toby Linden, Andrew E. Mason, Aaditya Mattoo, Tobias Pfutze, Lars M. Sondergaard, and Noah Yarrow, World Bank East Asia and Pacific Regional Report, Washington DC, 2023 Pp. 135, ISBN 978-1-4648-1904-9 (paper)","authors":"Anne Daly","doi":"10.1111/apel.12429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/apel.12429","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44776,"journal":{"name":"Asian-Pacific Economic Literature","volume":"38 2","pages":"145-146"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142642088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The impact of feminism-related public discussions on the promotion of female senior executives: evidence from China","authors":"Jing Liu","doi":"10.1111/apel.12422","DOIUrl":"10.1111/apel.12422","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using panel data of the A-share listed firms in China from 2015 to 2021, this article studies the impact of feminism-related public discussions on the promotion of female senior executives. Empirical results find that feminism-related public discussion can push firms to increase the ratio of female senior executives. Further research finds that the effect is more significant in firms whose chairmen are male, firms that are not state-owned enterprises, and firms whose employees are better educated. In addition, economic consequences tests show that when the public pays more attention to feminism, a high ratio of female senior executives can contribute to improving firm value. The findings in this article can be conducive to understanding the influence of public opinion on female career development and firms' decision-making.</p>","PeriodicalId":44776,"journal":{"name":"Asian-Pacific Economic Literature","volume":"38 2","pages":"123-139"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141676101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What drives the foreign investment in Nepal? Investors' perception analysis","authors":"Pujan Adhikari,&nbsp;Rohan Byanjankar,&nbsp;Surya Subba,&nbsp;Siddha Raj Bhatta,&nbsp;Prayush Man Shrestha","doi":"10.1111/apel.12421","DOIUrl":"10.1111/apel.12421","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The study aims to identify the motives of foreign direct investment in Nepal and analyse the perceived strengths and weaknesses of investment climate. Additionally, it examines the experience of foreign investors in Nepal in terms of further investment plans and net promoter scores attributed to the host country. The study relies on primary data collected from the survey of 65 sampled industries with foreign direct investment, using structured questionnaires. Descriptive analysis has been used to assess the key factors motivating foreign investors. The findings reveal that labour cost, repatriation facility, industrial security, low operating costs, access to neighbouring market/trade openness, and investment and communal hospitality stand out as major motivating factors, while political instability, macroeconomic instability, availability of machinery and equipment, road access, and bureaucracy are the major precluding factors. The policy reforms in Nepal have notably shaped investors' perceptions. Acts like the Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer Act, 1992, and subsequent amendments such as the Foreign Investment and Loan Management, 2021, have significantly motivated investors by improving repatriation facilities and ease of VISA and work permit accessibility. Despite the efforts, land facilitation for foreign investors has been perceived as a weakness. The net promoter score for Nepal is 12 on a scale from −100 to +100, which is positive, albeit low, indicating a substantial gap to attain full promoters and needs to be improved by further enhancing the investment climate.</p>","PeriodicalId":44776,"journal":{"name":"Asian-Pacific Economic Literature","volume":"38 2","pages":"102-122"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141503136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The effects of weather shock on income inequality: evidence from Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies","authors":"Woo-Hyung Hong,&nbsp;Wongi Kim","doi":"10.1111/apel.12420","DOIUrl":"10.1111/apel.12420","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study empirically investigates the dynamic effects of weather shock on within-country income inequality. Using panel data of 17 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies, we estimate impulse responses via the local projection method. Moreover, temperature and precipitation shocks, defined as deviations of temperature and precipitation from their historical norms, are exploited to measure country-specific weather shocks. The empirical results reveal the following. First, temperature and precipitation shocks deteriorate income inequality measured by the Gini index; these effects are long-lasting. Moreover, asymmetric effects exist: heat waves and droughts more significantly increase income inequality than cold waves and floods. Lastly, current redistribution policies do not seem to effectively mitigate those adverse effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":44776,"journal":{"name":"Asian-Pacific Economic Literature","volume":"38 2","pages":"75-101"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141503135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spillover effects of Japanese firms and the role of absorptive capacity in Vietnam","authors":"Vu Hoang Duong,&nbsp;Tuong Phi Vinh","doi":"10.1111/apel.12417","DOIUrl":"10.1111/apel.12417","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The paper examines the role of the absorptive capacity of Vietnamese manufacturing firms in facilitating the link from Japanese spillovers to the productivity of local firms in the manufacturing sector. By using the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) and threshold regression model with dynamic panel data from 2005 to 2018, the paper finds the following points. Firstly, the appearance and operation of Japanese firms can bring the positive horizontal labour effect and backward competition effect but it also brings the negative backward labour effect. Secondly, the absorptive capacity of domestic firms can help reduce the negative spillover effects and increase the positive spillover effects. Finally, if domestic firms cannot reach a threshold of absorptive capacity, they will suffer from Japanese spillovers while if they meet the threshold of absorptive capacity, they can enjoy the externalities from the operation and cooperation with Japanese firms.</p>","PeriodicalId":44776,"journal":{"name":"Asian-Pacific Economic Literature","volume":"38 2","pages":"22-41"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141376920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Is carbon emission trading policy a panacea? The implications of promoting green total factor productivity","authors":"Zhangting Hui,&nbsp;Chang Hwan Choi","doi":"10.1111/apel.12418","DOIUrl":"10.1111/apel.12418","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Market-based environmental regulation is crucial in influencing environmental and socioeconomic development. Carbon emission trading (CET) policy in China has been implemented since 2012 to balance the environment and economy, especially the green total factor productivity (GTFP). Most previous studies have only conducted short-term investigations on the impact of CET on environmental and socioeconomic development. In this study, we investigated panel data from 30 regions in China during 2003–2019, adopted the Global Malmquist-Luenberger and Super-SBM methods to measure GTFP, and employed the propensity score matched difference in difference (PSM-DID) to investigate the effect of CET policy on the environment, GTFP, and secondary industry output. The results indicate that CET policy has a positive influence on carbon emission reduction, contributes to the improvement of GTFP, and provides economic value. Therefore, we believe that CET policy can effectively help China to achieve a win-win scenario of environmental protection and economic growth.</p>","PeriodicalId":44776,"journal":{"name":"Asian-Pacific Economic Literature","volume":"38 2","pages":"42-55"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/apel.12418","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141269653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}