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How does internet use promote off-farm employment of rural laborers in China 互联网的使用如何促进中国农村劳动力的非农就业

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Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2026.102139

Ping Xue , Wei Jia

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Digital infrastructure and cognitive gap among children: Evidence from China 数字基础设施与儿童认知差距：来自中国的证据

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Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2026.102125

Ge Tian , Zi Yang , Xun Zhang

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Macroeconomic effects of monetary combination policy in China: The Generalized New Keynesian Phillips Curve in an open economy 中国货币组合政策的宏观经济效应：开放经济条件下广义新凯恩斯菲利普斯曲线

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Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2026.102149

Suhua Tian , Li Wang , Yonghan Zhao

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Oil price pass-through to inflation in emerging Asia 油价对亚洲新兴市场通胀的传导作用

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Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2025.102103

John Beirne , Nuobu Renzhi

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Growth matters, but so does its composition: An empirical study on India's multidimensional poverty, 1995–2021 增长很重要，但其构成也很重要：关于印度多维贫困的实证研究，1995-2021

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Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2026.102133

Yanxi Bao , Tingxuan Liao

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Public expenditure, housing value and wealth redistribution theory: Evidence from China’s urbanization 公共支出、住房价值与财富再分配理论：来自中国城市化的证据

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Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2026.102146

Ping Zhang , Jian Wu , Andong Zhuge , Bo Li

{"title":"Public expenditure, housing value and wealth redistribution theory: Evidence from China’s urbanization","authors":"Ping Zhang , Jian Wu , Andong Zhuge , Bo Li","doi":"10.1016/j.asieco.2026.102146","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asieco.2026.102146","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>China’s household wealth is experiencing rapid growth and has emerged as a significant force on the global stage. Although the government has played a crucial role in driving economic growth and facilitating wealth accumulation, limited research has thus far explored the mechanisms through which government expenditure reallocates household wealth during the process of urbanization in China. We utilize data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) household survey (2010–2018) and prefecture-level datasets to estimate the impact of government expenditure on household wealth, with a particular focus on housing wealth. By employing the “Province-Managing-County” fiscal reform as a quasi-natural experiment and using a historical instrumental variable, we identify a robust link between public expenditure and wealth accumulation. Our findings reveal that the capitalization of government expenditure plays a vital role in housing value appreciation, accounting for over 55 % of total household wealth. Moreover, the impact of government expenditure on household wealth has a pronounced redistributive effect. Specifically, government expenditures significantly enhance the net worth of homeowners, particularly those who own two or more properties, while having a minimal impact on households consisting of rental tenants. And the gains from the appreciation of housing assets are more concentrated among early home buyers. In the absence of a property tax system, the redistributive effect of government expenditures on household wealth has exacerbated social inequality.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47583,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Economics","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 102146"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147421547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Stock market performance of exporting firms during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from South Korea COVID-19大流行期间出口企业的股市表现：来自韩国的证据

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Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2026.102137

Jeongsim Kim

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Spillover effect of tax enforcement: Evidence from China 税收执法的溢出效应：来自中国的证据

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Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2026.102126

Zuoming Zhang , Yefei Lu , Dongjie Tao , Binbin Tian

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Institutional investor horizons and optimism in analyst earnings forecasts: Evidence from China 机构投资者的视野和分析师盈利预测的乐观：来自中国的证据

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Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2026.102147

Fanjie Fu , Jing Fang , Mei Yang , Shujie Yao , Chuan Lin

{"title":"Institutional investor horizons and optimism in analyst earnings forecasts: Evidence from China","authors":"Fanjie Fu , Jing Fang , Mei Yang , Shujie Yao , Chuan Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.asieco.2026.102147","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asieco.2026.102147","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates the impact of institutional investor horizons on analysts' optimistic bias using data from China's listed firm-level panel from 2007 to 2019. It was discovered that institutional investor horizons significantly reduce analysts' optimistic bias. After accounting for sample selection bias and potential endogeneity, the results remain robust. The mechanism test demonstrates that long-term institutional investors use their own preference and monitoring effect on firms to influence analysts' optimism through their relationships with listed firms and security companies (such as shareholders and clients), thereby reducing conflicts of interest between management and analysts, as well as between employers and analysts. Furthermore, long-term institutional investors may use their advantages in information gathering to dampen analyst optimism. Increased institutional investor horizons strengthen their supervisory role, diminishing analyst optimism in the sample that long-term institutional investors are more dominant and professional. The monitoring effect is stronger in the sample with large cliques, low-level herding behavior, and weak competition for information among institutional investors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47583,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Economics","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 102147"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147421533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Digital finance and high-quality economic development: Evidence from Chinese municipal data 数字金融与高质量经济发展：来自中国城市数据的证据

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Journal of Asian Economics Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2026.102136

Jing Wu , Chee Yoong Liew , Dong Ya Ji

{"title":"Digital finance and high-quality economic development: Evidence from Chinese municipal data","authors":"Jing Wu , Chee Yoong Liew , Dong Ya Ji","doi":"10.1016/j.asieco.2026.102136","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asieco.2026.102136","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Under the twin conditions of global digitalization and low-carbon, the process by which advanced technological tools such as digital finance (DF) promote the shift from a traditional real economy towards innovation-led and low-carbon circular economies is gaining much scholarly interest. We investigate how DF impacts high-quality economic development (HED) in Chinese municipalities during 2011–2023 with the help of the Peking University digital financial inclusion index and the China Urban statistical year book. Dimensions include industrial structure, total-factor productivity, technological innovation, environmental situation, and the life of residents. From the methodology view point, difference-in-differences and two-stage least square instrumental variables methods are adopted to resolve endogeneity problems and get robust research results. From our results, we can observe that DF plays an important role on HED and financial development (FD) is a positive moderator of this relationship. On the contrary, excessive government intervention (GI) becomes a negative moderating variable, which is limiting in the case of market efficiency and innovation. Our study has also reported that the effect of DF on HED is heterogeneous across different regions in China. Hence, based on our research results, there is a strong need for policy customization in different regions in China to ensure maximum benefits of the implementation of DF. Our results indicate the importance of DF in promoting sustainable economic growth, particularly in developing countries, such as China.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47583,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Economics","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 102136"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147421558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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