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Asian Economics Letters

Asian Economics Letters is a quarterly journal that aims to be a "letters" type journal covering all areas of Asian Economics.

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2021-06-06 21:38:36

Impact of COVID-19 on Stock Markets

Gkaitantzis Christos , Nikandrou Charalampos , Kyriazakou Eleni

Using time-series data for 19 countries, we examine whether market connectedness (measured by market returns and volatility) increased over time because of the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a vector autoregression–based spillover

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2021-06-06 21:59:22

House Prices and China's Birth Rate: A Note

Xiao-Cui Yin,Chi-Wei Su

This study aims to explore whether house prices have an asymmetrical threshold effect on the birth rate in China. We find that house prices have a significant negative impact on the birth rate when it is higher than the threshold value. This result indicates

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2021-06-27 12:22:30

The Role of Internet Development on Energy Intensity in China: Evidence From a Spatial Econometric Analysis

Yu Hao,Haitao Wu

With the emergence of information communication technology, the role of internet development has become crucial for energy intensity. This study uses the spatial Durbin model to test the impact of internet development on China’s energy intensity. The

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2021-06-27 12:29:05

Economic Policy Uncertainty and Corporate Innovation: Evidence From China

Huayu Shen,Man Zhang,Runxin Liu,Fei Hou

This study investigates whether economic policy uncertainty affects corporate innovation. Using a sample of Chinese listed firms during the period of 2007-2017, this paper finds that economic policy uncertainty is positively associated with corporate

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2021-06-27 12:36:04

Does Bank Lending Intervention Hamper Firm Innovation? Evidence From the Chinese-style Capacity-Reduction Initiative

Huwei Wen,Qiming Zhong,Quanen Guo

Using the difference-in-differences method, this study investigates the impact of bank lending intervention on firm innovation. We find that bank lending intervention significantly hampers R&D investment of firms in overcapacity industries. Moreover,

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2021-06-27 12:41:25

Does Private Investment Help Improve Natural Resource Utilization Efficiency?

Guoxiang Li,Suling Feng

Using panel data from 30 Chinese provinces (excluding Tibet, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan) over the 2006 to 2016 period, this research analyzes the impact of private investment on natural resource utilization efficiency. We find that private investment

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2021-06-27 12:47:11

A Note on the Asian Market Volatility During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Susan Sunila Sharma

This paper provides a note on commonality in volatility for five developed Asian economies, namely Hong Kong, Japan, Russia, Singapore and South Korea. Additionally, we examine whether the COVID-19 pandemic changed the commonality in volatility within

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2021-06-27 12:51:38

Pandemics and the Asia-Pacific Islamic Stocks

Afees A. Salisu,Abdulsalam Abidemi Sikiru

In this paper, we examine the potential of the Asia-Pacific Islamic stock market to serve as a good hedge against uncertainty due to pandemics and epidemics (UPE). Relying on a new dataset for UPE, we find evidence in favour of the hedging potential of

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2021-06-27 12:57:13

Has COVID-19 Changed Exchange Rate Resistance to Shocks?

Paresh Kumar Narayan

In this note, we propose the hypothesis that COVID-19 has influenced the Yen-US dollar exchange rate’s resistance to shocks. We propose a time varying unit root model and unravel that prior to the pandemic, the Yen was non-stationary while during the

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2021-06-27 13:01:15

Tourism and Unemployment in Hong Kong: Is There Any Interaction?

Meng Qin,Chi Wei Su

This paper investigates the time-varying interaction between tourist arrivals (TA) and unemployment rate (UE) in Hong Kong. We find that TA negatively influence UE, implying that lack of tourism hurts employment prospects. We also document a positive

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2021-06-27 13:51:49

The COVID-19 impact on the Asian Stock Markets

Luis A. Gil-Alana,Gloria Claudio-Quiroga

In this note, we examine the impact that the COVID-19 crisis may have on the Asian stock markets by examining the statistical properties of three financial markets in Asia: namely, the Korean SE Kospi Index, the Japanese Nikkei 225, and the Chinese Shanghai

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2021-06-27 13:55:53

Did Bubble Activity Intensify During COVID-19?

Paresh Kumar Narayan

In this note, we utilize hourly exchange rate data for Japanese Yen, Canadian dollar, European Euro and the British pound to search for possible bubble type behavior. We identify evidence that bubble activity characterizes all four exchange rates more

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2021-06-27 14:01:17

Economic Policy Uncertainty in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic

Bernard Njindan Iyke

We examine the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on economic policy uncertainty (EPU) in five leading Asian economies, namely China, India, Japan, Korea, and Singapore. We find that the pandemic has a positive and statistically significant

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2021-06-27 14:06:23

Product Market Competition and R&D Investment: Evidence From Textual Analysis on Annual Report of China's Listed Firms

Ziyu Song,Shuming Ren

We investigate the relationship between product market competition (measured by textual analysis of annual reports) and Research and Development (R&D) investment of China’s listed firms. Empirical results show that competition promotes innovation. Economic

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2021-06-27 14:14:40

Can Oil Prices Predict Japanese Yen?

Neluka Devpura

In this paper, we examine the relationship between Japanese Yen (vis-à-vis the US dollar) and the crude oil futures price. The novelty is that we use high frequency (intraday hourly) data to examine time-varying predictability. We find limited evidence

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2021-06-27 14:19:55

Dynamics of Foreign Portfolio Investment and Stock Market Returns During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence From India

Prabheesh KP

This paper examines the causality relation between stock returns and foreign portfolio (FPI) flows in the Indian context during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using daily data and the Toda and Yamamoto Granger causality test, the study finds that unidirectional

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2021-06-27 14:26:06

The Effect of Country-level Factors and Government Intervention on the Incidence of COVID-19

Anasuya Haldar,Narayan Sethi

This study explores the effects of demographic, socio-economic, and public-response factors on the incidence of new COVID-19 cases for the 10 countries with the greatest number of confirmed cases. Results show that demographic factors and government policies

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2021-08-10 13:32:36

Did Enterprises' Innovation Ability Increase During the COVID-19 Pandemic? Evidence From Chinese Listed Companies

Hongfang Han,Yanhong Qian

This paper uses a fixed effect model to empirically study the impact of COVID-19 on the innovative ability of listed companies in China. We find that the innovative abilities of Chinese listed companies, both large-scale and small-scale, increase during

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2021-08-10 13:38:33

Systemic Risk in China's Financial Industry Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cheng Lan, Ziyi Huang,Wenli Huang

In this paper, the dynamic CoVaR method is used to measure changes in systemic risk in the financial industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that, first, after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the systemic risk of the financial industry increased

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2021-08-10 13:43:09

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Chinese Stock Market: An Event Study Based on the Consumer Industry

Lei Yan,Yanhong Qian

Using an event study approach, this paper investigates the impact of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) on the consumer industry in the Chinese stock market. We find that stocks belonging to the consumer industry was adversely impacted by the pandemic

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2021-08-10 13:51:36

The Impact of COVID-19 and Government Intervention on Stock Markets of OECD Countries

Haochang Yang,Peidong Deng

We study the impact of COVID-19 and various government interventions on the stock market returns of 20 OECD countries from February 1, 2020 to October 1, 2020. We find that stock market returns react significantly negatively to the increase in the number

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2021-08-10 13:56:56

An Analysis of the Dynamic Asymmetric Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the RMB Exchange Rate

Xing Fang ,Yu Zhang

In this paper, we assume that the COVID-19 pandemic exerts a time-varying asymmetric impact on the RMB exchange rate. Based on the Taylor rule model, we examine the RMB exchange rate fluctuations around the outbreak of COVID-19. We find that the RMB rate

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2021-08-10 14:00:56

Investor Sentiment and Volatility Prediction of Currencies and Commodities During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Thi Hong Van Hoang, Qasim Raza Syed

In this note, we examine whether the volatility predictive power of investor sentiment for currencies and commodities is sensitive to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Credit Suisse Fear Barometer (CSFB) and the VIX are used to measure investor sentiment. The

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2021-08-10 14:04:46

Does COVID-19 Affect Domestic Credit? Aggregate and Bank Level Evidence From China

Isaac Appiah-Otoo

We estimate the impact of COVID-19 on domestic credit in China over the period January 01, 2020 to June 30, 2020. Our findings show that an increase in COVID-19 confirmed cases/deaths significantly increases domestic credit in China, however; the magnitude

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2021-08-10 14:08:45

How Do Pandemics Affect Government Expenditures?

Qiang Fu,Chun-Ping Chang

Based on a sample of panel data for 14 countries spanning the period 2000-2018, this paper investigates the effect of pandemics on government expenditure and public health expenditure. The empirical results show that pandemics lead to an increase in government

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2021-08-10 14:13:08

Growth in China's New Economy

Creina Day

This paper analyzes socially optimal shares of output invested in research and development (R&D), education and physical capital to sustain China’s economic growth as population growth slows. China’s high human capital income share closes the gap

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2021-08-10 14:17:03

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Relation Between Retail Investors' Trading and Stock Returns in the Chinese Market

Tao Bing

This paper investigates the relation between retail investors’ flows and returns during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Chinese market using the VAR model. The results show that though the positive feedback trading during the pandemic is weaker than that

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2021-08-10 14:20:49

Asymmetric Link Between COVID-19 and Fossil Energy Prices

Kai-Hua Wang,Chi-Wei Su

This paper investigates the asymmetric relationship between COVID-19 and fossil energy prices through bootstrap Fourier Granger Causality test in quantiles. The empirical results indicate that COVID-19 influences oil and natural gas prices in high volatile

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2021-08-10 14:24:27

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Status of RMB as an Anchor Currency

Xing Fang,Weijuan Cao

In the context of a severely volatile global financial market in 2020, the Ren Min Bi (RMB) has also experienced dramatic fluctuations. We examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the status of the RMB as an anchor currency in countries along the

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2021-08-10 14:29:03

How Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Connect With the Volatility Spillovers in Asia-Pacific Markets?

Ismail O Fasanya,Oluwatomisin J Oyewole,Taofeek Agbatogun

We examine the connection between global economic policy uncertainty (GEPU) and the dynamic spillovers of the Asia-Pacific manufacturing market within a nonparametric framework. We find strong connectedness between markets, and our results strongly support

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2021-08-10 14:32:50

Sectoral Nonlinear Causality Between Stock Market Volatility and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence From India

Debi Bal,Seba Mohanty

This paper examines the linear and nonlinear relationship between daily confirmed COVID-19 cases and sectoral stock market volatility in India. The linear Granger causality test reveals bidirectional causality. Further, we observe that bidirectional nonlinear

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2021-08-10 14:37:38

Can Uncertainty Due to Pandemic Predict Asia-Pacific Energy Stock Markets?

Ismail O. Fasanya,Oluwatomisin J. Oyewole ,Johnson A. Oliyide

In this note, we examine the predictability of the energy stock markets using the diseases-based uncertainty index within a nonparametric framework. The nonparametric causality test reveals that energy stocks’ predictability driven by pandemic uncertainty

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2021-10-06 11:35:06

New Measures of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A New Time-Series Dataset

Paresh Kumar Narayan,Bernard Njindan Iyke,Susan Sunila Sharma

The multitude of papers exploring the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic over the last 12 months has motivated us to develop new, alternative measures of COVID-19. One limitation of current research has been the lack of robustness in quantifying the effects

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2021-10-06 11:45:40

Impact of COVID-19 on Stock Markets

Gkaitantzis Christos, Nikandrou Charalampos,Kyriazakou Eleni

Using time-series data for 19 countries, we examine whether market connectedness (measured by market returns and volatility) increased over time because of the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a vector autoregression–based spillover

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2021-10-06 11:51:17

Does COVID-19 Drive Stock Price Bubbles in Medical Mask?

Zheng Zheng Li, Yidong Xiao,Chi-Wei Su

This article studies whether there is a bubble in the price of medical masks, especially considering the COVID-19 pandemic. The empirical results show that multiple bubbles exist in 2020 and are correlated with COVID-19 related events. This study alerts

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2021-10-06 11:56:19

Geopolitical Risk and the Return Volatility of Islamic Stocks in Indonesia and Malaysia: A GARCH-MIDAS Approach

Umar B. Ndako,Afees A. Salisu,Muritala O. Ogunsiji

In this paper, the predictive value of geopolitical risk (GPR) for the return volatility of Islamic stocks in Indonesia and Malaysia is examined. GPR data, whether global or country-specific, heighten the return volatility of Islamic stocks in both countries,

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2021-10-06 11:59:45

Special Issue on Forecasting Asian Markets

Afees A. Salisu

This special issue of the Asian Economics Letters (AEL) contains papers on forecasting of Asian financial markets. After initial screening of all submitted papers by the Guest Editor, only the best six papers were chosen for peer review. Post this review

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2021-10-06 12:04:47

Tail Risks and Stock Return Predictability: Evidence From Asia-Pacific

Ahamuefula E. Ogbonna,Olusanya E. Olubusoye

Hinging on the recently established relevance of tail thickness information, we examine the predictability of fifteen major stocks in the Asia-Pacific region using conditional autoregressive value at risk (CAViaR) model estimates of tail risks. We used

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2021-10-06 12:11:02

Do Epidemics and Pandemics Have Predictive Content for Exchange Rate Movements? Evidence for Asian Economies

Afees A. Salisu, Lukman Lasisi,Abeeb Olaniran

In this paper, we examine the predictive content of uncertainty due to pandemics and epidemics (UPE) for the exchange rate movements of selected Asian economies. Our results show evidence of superior out-of-sample predictability of a UPE-based predictive

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2021-10-06 12:14:54

Can Tail Risk Predict Asia-Pacific Exchange Rates Out of Sample?

Idris A. Adediran

We present novel evidence to show that tail (market) risk, measured as the conditional autoregressive value at risk, is a good predictor of Asia-Pacific exchange rates. We use daily exchange rate data for the Australian dollar, the Chinese yuan, the Indonesian

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2021-10-06 12:18:37

Testing the Asymmetric Response of China’s Stock Returns to Oil Price Dynamics: Does Fear of COVID-19 Matter?

Joel Ede Owuru

This study investigates the response of Chinese stock returns to oil prices amidst the COVID-19 pandemic using both linear and nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) models. The results indicate that oil price and the COVID-19 Global Fear Index

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2021-10-06 12:23:14

Hedging Global and Country-Specific Geopolitical Risks With South Korean Stocks: A Predictability Approach

Tirimisiyu F. Oloko,Abeeb O. Olaniran,Lukman A. Lasisi

In this study, we examine the potential of South Korean stocks to hedge against global and country-specific geopolitical risks. A predictability approach with a feasible quasi generalized least square (FQGLS) estimator was employed. Our results reveal

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2021-10-06 12:26:39

Speed of Adjustment of Stock Returns Around Dividend Announcements in Pakistan

Zubair Tanveer

This study investigates the behavior of stock prices to identify the speed of adjustment of stock returns in response to dividend declarations in the 10 most lucrative sectors of the Pakistan stock market. The event methodology results show that the Pakistan

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2021-10-06 12:32:13

Popularity of Unit Root Tests: A Review

Badri Narayan Rath,Vaseem Akram

This study undertakes a systematic literature review on recent developments in unit root tests. We highlight popular unit root tests developed since 2010 based on the number of citations. We observe from the literature that the most popular unit root

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2021-10-06 12:36:19

Asymmetric Impact of COVID-19 on China's Stock Market Volatility: Media Effect or Fact?

Xin Li

This study examines the asymmetric effects of positive and negative changes in media attention to COVID-19 and daily new confirmed COVID-19 cases on China’s stock market volatility by utilizing the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) model.

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2021-11-06 02:34:47

Uncertainty Due to Pandemic and the Volatility Connectedness Among Asian REITs Market

Ololade Periola-Fatunsin,Johnson A. Oliyide, Ismail O. Fasanya

With increasing COVID-19 cases and instability of many financial markets, we examine the role of uncertainty due to infectious diseases in influencing volatility connectedness among Asian Real Estate Investment Trust market. Our result unveils the importance

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2021-11-06 02:47:57

Impact of COVID-19 on Malaysia’s Bilateral Export: Testing for Heterogeneous Effects in the Product Category

Muhamad Rias K V Zainuddin,Nurul Aishah Khairuddin,Hakimah Nur Ahmad Hamidi

This study analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on Malaysia’s bilateral export in three categories of goods. The results show that higher numbers of COVID-19 cases among trading partners has led to higher levels of bilateral export for capital and consumption

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2021-11-06 11:22:42

Has Covid-19 Shaken the World Trade and China’s Preeminence?

C. T. Vidya,world trade network,covid-19

The study compares the world trade network among the top merchandise trading countries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. China’s preeminence in world trade during the 2020 pandemic is also examined. The results reveal that the pandemic did not

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2021-11-06 11:39:29

Mega-Regionalism in Southeast Asia: Single- and Dual-Track Options for ASEAN Member States

Kiki Verico

This paper compares the effects of the economic convergence levels of the two mega-regional cooperative efforts of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)

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2021-11-06 11:48:31

Returns to Secondary and Tertiary Education in China: A Meta-Analysis

Ichiro Iwasaki,Xinxin Ma

In this paper, we conduct a meta-analysis using 1429 estimates extracted from 61 English and Chinese studies to estimate the wage effect of secondary and tertiary education in China. The meta-synthesis results show that the impact of tertiary education

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2021-11-06 12:02:20

Monetary Policy Announcement and Stock Returns: Evidence From Long-Term Repo Operations in India

Radeef Chundakkadan,Subash Sasidharan

This paper investigates the impact of unconventional monetary policy on stock returns using the Reserve Bank of India’s long-term repo operations (LTROs). We provide evidence that firms listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange register higher returns on

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2021-12-05 09:53:36

The Directionality of Outward FDI and Its Determinants: Findings From Asian Emerging Countries

Pragyanrani Behera,Prajukta Tripathy,Bikash Ranjan Mishra

This study investigates the determinants of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) for eight emerging Asian source countries vis-à-vis 107 host countries from 2009 to 2016. We employ Bayesian model averaging and the weighted average least squares technique

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2022-03-05 10:09:42

The COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Banking Sector

Darjana Darjana,S.K. Wiryono,D.P. Koesrindartoto

This paper aims to investigate the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the banking sector in Indonesia between 2011 and 2020. The study reveals that a credit crunch has transpired during the pandemic period. The result reveals that credit delivery decreased

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2022-03-05 10:33:00

Movement Control Order Policy to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 and Its Impact on Quarterly Growth and Its Components in Malaysia: A Synthetic Control Method for Policy Evaluation

Basem Ertimi,Tamat Sarmidi,Norlin Khalid,Mohd Helmi Ali

In an attempt to mitigate the effects of COVID-19, the Malaysian government imposed the Movement Control Order (MCO). To address the adverse impacts of the MCO policy, the Malaysian government initiated a series of recovery plans for both fiscal and monetary

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2022-03-05 10:51:00

Announcement Effect of COVID-19 on Cryptocurrencies

Nuruddeen Usman,Kodili Nwanneka,Nduka

This study uses a fractional integration method to evaluate the efficiency of cryptocurrencies before and after the period COVID-19 had been announced as being a pandemic. Evidence of long memory is confirmed across all subsamples. Additionally, we find

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2022-06-16 09:28:34

Fertility and Parental Labor Supply in Rural Northwestern China: Evidence From Twin Births

Qihui Chen

This study exploits twin births to identify the effects of fertility on parental labor supply in rural northwestern China. Instrumental variable estimation suggests that having an additional child reduces mothers’ yearly labor supply by seven days and

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2022-06-16 09:37:31

Estimation of Life Insurance Asset Value From Household Survey

Ting Zeng,Qian Cao

The omission of the asset value of life insurance policies in computing household assets would underestimate household wealth and therefore bias measures of wealth inequality. We propose a method to estimate the cash value of household life insurance

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2022-06-16 10:06:28

The COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Banking Sector

Darjana Darjana,S.K. Wiryono,D.P. Koesrindartoto

This paper aims to investigate the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the banking sector in Indonesia between 2011 and 2020. The study reveals that a credit crunch has transpired during the pandemic period. The result reveals that credit delivery decreased

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2022-06-16 10:15:51

Announcement Effect of COVID-19 on Cryptocurrencies

Nuruddeen Usman,Kodili Nwanneka Nduka

This study uses a fractional integration method to evaluate the efficiency of cryptocurrencies before and after the period COVID-19 had been announced as being a pandemic. Evidence of long memory is confirmed across all subsamples. Additionally, we find

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2022-06-16 10:23:10

Asia-Pacific Islamic Stocks and Gold: A Markov-switching Copula Estimation

Bayu Adi Nugroho

This paper tests regime changes of the conditional dependence between Asia-Pacific Islamic stocks and gold. Relying on a time-varying Student’s t copula with Markov-switching autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (MSGARCH), this paper finds

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2022-06-16 10:37:15

Movement Control Order Policy to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 and Its Impact on Quarterly Growth and Its Components in Malaysia: A Synthetic Control Method for Policy Evaluation

Basem Ertimi,Tamat Sarmidi,Norlin Khalid,Mohd Helmi Ali

In an attempt to mitigate the effects of COVID-19, the Malaysian government imposed the Movement Control Order (MCO). To address the adverse impacts of the MCO policy, the Malaysian government initiated a series of recovery plans for both fiscal and monetary

Abstract

2022-06-16 10:43:38

A Note on the Transmission of Policy Uncertainty Shocks on Asia-Pacific Stock Returns

Idris A. Adediran,Emeka O. Akpa

This study explores the transmission of various policy uncertainty shocks—such as financial market uncertainty (using the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index), macroeconomic policy uncertainty (using the Global Economic Policy Uncertainty),

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2022-06-16 10:58:59

Household Pandemic Response: The Socioeconomic Impact of COVID-19 on Migrant Households in India

S. Irudaya Rajan,T. M. Sivadasan ,Reddy Sai,Shiva Jayanth,Pooja Batra

We study the social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the coping strategies adopted by left-behind households comprising both internal and international migrants in Kerala, India. Using semi-structured telephone interviews with 52 households, we analyze

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2022-06-16 11:04:23

Outbreak of COVID-19: Economic Shocks and Corporate Responses in India

Santanu Bhadra,Sougata Ray

Although COVID-19 caused initial shocks to the Indian economy, a quick recovery was visible within a few months. We systematically analyze corporate responses during the lockdown period and argue that corporate resilience through proactive responses played

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2022-06-16 11:10:26

Monetary Policy Announcement and Stock Returns: Evidence From Long-Term Repo Operations in India

Radeef Chundakkadan,Subash Sasidharan

This paper investigates the impact of unconventional monetary policy on stock returns using the Reserve Bank of India’s long-term repo operations (LTROs). We provide evidence that firms listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange register higher returns on

Abstract

2022-06-16 11:18:06

Impact of COVID-19 on Malaysia’s Bilateral Export: Testing for Heterogeneous Effects in the Product Category

Muhamad Rias K V Zainuddin,Nurul Aishah Khairuddin,Hakimah Nur Ahmad Hamidi

This study analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on Malaysia’s bilateral export in three categories of goods. The results show that higher numbers of COVID-19 cases among trading partners has led to higher levels of bilateral export for capital and consumption

Abstract

2022-06-16 11:26:24

How COVID-19 Influences Indian Sectoral Stocks

Johnson A. Oliyide,Abiodun M. Adetokunbo,Ismail O. Fasanya

Studies have documented the strong effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on different world economies. In this study, we examine the influence of COVID-19 cases in India on the country’s sectoral stock indices. Our results find that COVID-19 has had a negligible

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2022-06-16 11:32:40

Has Covid-19 Shaken the World Trade and China’s Preeminence?

C. T. Vidya

The study compares the world trade network among the top merchandise trading countries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. China’s preeminence in world trade during the 2020 pandemic is also examined. The results reveal that the pandemic did not

Abstract

2022-06-16 11:39:55

Asymmetric Impact of COVID-19 on China’s Stock Market Volatility: Media Effect or Fact?

Xin Li

This study examines the asymmetric effects of positive and negative changes in media attention to COVID-19 and daily new confirmed COVID-19 cases on China’s stock market volatility by utilizing the nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) model.

Abstract

2022-06-16 11:47:03

Popularity of Unit Root Tests: A Review

Badri Narayan Rath,Vaseem Akram

This study undertakes a systematic literature review on recent developments in unit root tests. We highlight popular unit root tests developed since 2010 based on the number of citations. We observe from the literature that the most popular unit root

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2022-08-21 10:52:39

Partisan Conflict and Government Spending: New Evidence From the United States

Xuan Hu,Agus Salim,Kai Shi,Meng Yan

To understand and address the issue of how political party disagreement affects the dynamics of fiscal policy, we investigate the potential link between partisan conflict and government spending in the United States. We find that one standard deviation

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2022-08-21 10:57:18

Does Bank Competition Necessarily Contribute to Higher Profits? The Case of Indian Banking

Bijoy Rakshit

This paper empirically examines an important research question of whether changes in bank competition have influenced the profitability pattern of Indian banking. Using the two-step system generalized method of moments, we examine the implications of

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2022-11-08 03:33:10

Does the United States Bond Yield Affect Foreign Institutional Investor Inflows to India and Indian Stock Market?

Charumathi Balakrishnan,Habeebu Rahman

We investigate the extent to which the United States (US) bond yield affects foreign institutional investor (FII) inflows and the performance of the Indian stock market using monthly time-series data from 2002 to 2021. We use the vector autoregressive

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2022-11-08 04:01:16

Lockdown vs. Opening-Up of the Economy During the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Indian Stock Market

Pratap Kumar Jena,Pramod Kumar Mishra

This paper examined the impact of the lockdown and opening-up of India during the COVID-19 pandemic on eleven Indian stock market indices. Using an event study methodology, we found that the lockdown has adversely affected financial services and consumer

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2022-11-08 04:08:04

Building Capacity for Innovation: Evidence From Vietnam

Thi Phuong Thao Nguyen,Phuc Hieu Nghiem ,Thi Thu Hong Vo

This study investigates the effect of capacity building for innovation through research and development (R&D) investment and training on innovation performance. The results show that training positively affects product/service and process innovation,

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2022-11-08 04:16:05

Expectations Channel of the Monetary Policy in India: A Structural Factor Augmented VAR Approach

Apica Sharma

This study analyses the impact of inflation expectations from 17 July 2016 to 20 August 2022 using the actual future consumer price index (CPI) in the Structural Factor Augmented Vector Autoregressive (SFAVAR) Framework. Around 85 percent of inflation

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2022-11-08 04:21:35

Analysing the Technical Efficiency of Rural Cooperative Banks in India

Aadil Ummar Zaman,Mohammad Shahid Zaman,Nisar Ahmad Khan

Using data envelopment analysis, this paper investigates the technical efficiency of rural cooperative banks in India from 2013 to 2019. The results indicate a continuous deterioration in efficiency as well as a large asymmetry between states regarding

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2022-11-08 04:26:35

COVID-19, Mobility, and Stock Markets Performance: Evidence From ASEAN-5

Hassanudin Mohd Thas Thaker

Time-series and time frequency domain analyses were used to examine the impact of mobility in ASEAN-5 stock markets. Using daily data, most markets (except for two) were found to have a long-run association with mobility. We found no Granger causality

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2023-03-09 10:28:44

Climate Risk Measures: A Review

Afees Salisu,Tirimisiyu Oloko

The increasing concern about the far-reaching effects of climate change-related risk on sustainability has engendered the need to develop alternative indices to measure it. In this study, we review the existing measures of climate risk and offer useful

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2023-03-09 10:39:36

A Global Analysis of the Macroeconomic Effects of Climate Change

Idris A. Adediran,Kazeem O. Isah,Ahamuefula E. Ogbonna,Sheriff K. Badmus

We offer global evidence on the macroeconomic effects of climate change for a panel of 22 countries classified by economic groupings. We show that: globally, climate change is inflationary; the negative impacts of climate change on the exchange rate markets

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2023-03-09 10:47:40

The Road to Improve Energy Efficiency vs. the Role of Corruption: A Dynamic Quantile Exploration

Miaomiao Tao,Lim Thye Goh

We provide fresh evidence on the effect of corruption on energy efficiency and its regional heterogeneity in China by using a dynamic quantile panel regression model. We find that: (1) there are large differences in energy efficiency across Chinese provinces;

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2023-03-09 10:53:26

The Impact of the Russia-Ukraine War on the Cryptocurrency Market

Isaac Appiah-Otoo

This research provides the very first empirical investigation of the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on the cryptocurrency market (Bitcoin trading volume, and returns). The findings indicate that the Russia-Ukraine war impedes Bitcoin trading volume.

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2023-03-09 11:01:04

The Effect of Energy Structure on Pollution Emissions: The Role of Technological Innovation

Miaomiao Tao,Yuhang Zheng,Pierre Failler,Wee Yeap Lau,Lim Thye Goh

Using a panel data of 30 Chinese provinces from 2000 to 2016, we investigate the linear and nonlinear effects of industrial energy structure on pollution emissions. We find that: (1) technological innovation can alleviate the restraining effect of coal-based

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2023-03-09 11:06:43

Market Efficiency and Volatility Persistence of Green Investments Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

OlaOluwa Yaya,Rafiu Akano,Oluwasegun Adekoya

Using a nonlinear framework with Chebyshev polynomial in time, we investigate the market efficiency and volatility persistence of five green investments before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our results show that, except for the MSCI global green

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2023-06-11 22:21:51

The Effects of Renewable Energy, Innovation, and Governance on Climate Change and Economic Growth-Investigating the Opportunities and Challenges for Emerging Asia

Anasuya Haldar,Narayan Sethi

The paper investigates the opportunities provided by renewable energy consumption and innovation along with the challenges posed by corruption and political instability, for climate- change mitigation and economic growth in seven selected emerging Asian

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2023-06-12 10:48:14

The Impact of COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine Conflict on the Relationship Between the US Islamic Stock Index, Bitcoin, and Commodities

Ahmad Monir Abdullah

In this article, the MGARCH-DCC model is utilised to compare the usefulness of Bitcoin, gold, and crude oil as a hedge and safe haven for the US Islamic stock index. We utilised daily data from August 2014 to April 2022, which covers the most recent COVID-19

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2023-06-12 10:53:58

Dynamic Linkages Among Cryptocurrencies: The Role of COVID-19

Abhishek Sah ,Biswajit Patra

This paper investigates the impact of COVID-19 on the cryptocurrency market. It empirically examines the level of volatility and the dynamic conditional correlations among cryptocurrencies pre-COVID-19 and during COVID-19. We find significant dynamic

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2023-06-12 10:59:25

Does Global Economic Uncertainty Affect Foreign Direct Investment? Evidence From Asian Emerging Markets

Ismaila Adeleye Okunoye ,Emeka O. Akpa,Bamidele Boluwatife,Maxwell Jimmy

In this paper, we examine the impact of global economic uncertainty on foreign direct investment (FDI) in Asian emerging markets using the new world uncertainty index (WWUI). The results show an insignificant and indirect impact of global uncertainty

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2023-06-12 11:06:47

Asymmetric Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak on Economic Policy Uncertainty

Nagmi Aimer,Abdulmula Lusta

We examine the asymmetric impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Economic Policy Uncertainty Index for United States (EPU). Our results indicate that the pandemic has had a long-term impact on EPU. In addition, there is no strong short-term impact of the

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2023-06-12 11:11:25

Does Bitcoin Provide a Hedge to Islamic Stock Markets During and Post-COVID-19 Outbreak? Evidence From Asia Based on a Multivariate-GARCH Approach

Siok Jin Lim,Andaeus Zun Khan Neoh

This paper applies the DCC-MGARCH model to investigate the role of Bitcoin as a hedge for Islamic stocks in Asia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite being a highly volatile cryptocurrency, evidence of low dynamic correlation between Bitcoin and Islamic

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