Asian-Pacific Economic Literature

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Volume 29, issue 2, 2015

Retirement policy: a review of the role, characteristics, and contribution of the Australian superannuation system pp. 1-17

Panha Heng, Scott J. Niblock and Jennifer L. Harrison

Managing the renminbi: should China peg to a trade-weighted basket? pp. 18-29

Heikki Oksanen

Productivity spillovers from foreign multinationals and trade protection: firm-level analysis of Vietnamese manufacturing pp. 30-46

Thi Ngoc Thuyen Truong, Juthathip Jongwanich and Eric Ramstetter

On the challenge to competitive authoritarianism and political patronage in Malaysia pp. 47-67

Anders Johansson

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership: new paradigm or old wine in a new bottle? pp. 68-84

Sanchita Basu Das

Is there a Pareto solution to the misaligned incentives and competing objectives of water grabbing in the Lao PDR? pp. 85-96

Andrea Chareunsy

The Greening of Asia: The Business Case for Solving Asia's Environmental Emergency by Mark L. Clifford Columbia Business School Publishing, New York, 2015 Pp. 306. ISBN 978-0-231-16608-9 pp. 97-98

Paul Burke

Lost Decades in Growth Performance: Causes and Case Studies edited by Yun-Peng Chu (ed.) Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2015 Pp. 240. ISBN 978-1-137-47874-0 pp. 98-99

Tain-Jy Chen

The Origins of International Banking in Asia: the nineteenth and twentieth centuries edited by Shizuya Nishimura, Toshio Suzuki, and Ranald Michie (eds) Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012 Pp. 264. ISBN 978 0 19 964632 6 pp. 99-100

Patrick Fontenay

Transforming Malaysia: Dominant and Competing Paradigms edited by Anthony Milner, Abdul Rahman Embong, and Tham Siew Yean (eds) Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 2014 Pp. 239. ISBN: 978-981-4517-91-1 pp. 100-102

Edmund Terence Gomez

Liem Sioe Liong's Salim Group: The Business Pillar of Suharto's Indonesia by Richard Borsuk and Nancy Chng Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 2014 Pp. 574. ISBN 978 981 4459 57 0 pp. 102-103

Hal Hill

Economic Management in a Volatile Environment: Monetary and Financial Issues by Ramkishen S. Rajan and Sasidaran Gopalan Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2015 Pp. xx+283. ISBN 9 78 137 37151-5 pp. 103-106

Akhand Hossain

Japan's Economic Planning and Mobilization in Wartime, 1930s-1940s: The Competence of the State by Yoshiro Miwa Cambridge University Press, New York, 2015 Pp. viii, 462. ISBN 978-1-107-02650-6 pp. 106-108

Carl Mosk

Mirror Images in Different Frames? Johor, the Riau Islands, and Competition for Investment from Singapore by Francis E. Hutchinson ISEAS, Singapore, 2015 Pp. 150. ISBN 978-981-4620-45-1 pp. 109-110

Siwage Dharma Negara

Asian Capital Market Development and Integration: Challenges and Opportunities. Korea Capital Market Institute and Asian Development Bank (eds) Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2014 Pp. 491. ISBN 978-01-9809-945-1 pp. 110-112

David Nellor

Asian-Pacific Rim Logistics: Global Context and Local Policies by Peter J. Rimmer Edward Elgar, UK, 2014 Pp. 552. ISBN 978-1-84720-628-2 pp. 112-113

Ross Robinson

Globalization and Economic Nationalism in Asia edited by Anthony P. D'Costa (ed.) Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012 Pp. 259. ISBN: 978 0 19 964621 0 pp. 113-115

Garry Rodan

Trade, Development, and Political Economy in East Asia: Essays in Honour of Hal Hill edited by Prema-chandra Athukorala, Arianto A. Patunru, and Budy P. Resosudarmo (eds) ISEAS, Singapore, 2014 Pp. 278. ISBN 978-981-4620-05-5 pp. 115-116

Siew Yean Tham

Global Shock, Risks, and Asian Financial Reform edited by Iwan J. Azis and Hyun Song Shin (eds) Edward Elgar and Asian Development Bank, Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA, 2014 Pp. 752. ISBN 978-1-78347-793-7 pp. 116-117

Giorgio Valente

Volume 29, issue 1, 2015

Cooperation between countries to ensure global economic growth: a role for the G20? pp. 1-24

David Vines

Gerschenkron Redux? Analysing New Evidence on Joint-Stock Enterprise in Pre-War Shanghai pp. 25-46

Niv Horesh

Stock market performance in Hong Kong: an exploratory review pp. 47-61

Sin-Yu Ho and Nicholas Odhiambo

Forces of economic growth in China, India, and other Asian countries pp. 62-81

Rup Singh

On the puzzling slowdown of wage and productivity growth in Taiwan: evidence from a comparison with South Korea pp. 82-101

Frank Bickenbach, Wan-Hsin Liu and Hector Niehues-Jeuffroy

Electricity consumption and economic development in Asia: new data and new methods pp. 102-125

Fumitaka Furuoka

Energy price shocks, monetary policy and China's economic fluctuations pp. 126-141

Yunqing Wang and Qigui Zhu

FDI productivity spillovers and the technology gap in Malaysia's electrical and electronic industries pp. 142-160

Noor Aini Khalifah, Salmah Mohd Salleh and Radziah Adam

Drivers of technical efficiency in Malaysian banking: a new empirical insight pp. 161-173

Asish Saha, Nor Hayati Ahmad and Umakant Dash

Geographical indication protection and rural livelihoods: insights from India and Thailand pp. 174-185

Pradyot Jena, Chuthaporn Ngokkuen, Dil Rahut and Ulrike Grote

World Economic Performance—past, present and future: essays in celebration of the life and work of Angus Maddison edited by D.S. Prasada Rao and Bart von Ark (eds) Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA, 2013 Pp. ix + 432, ISBN 978 1 84844 848 3 pp. 186-193

Konosuke Odaka

Fiscal Sustainability & Competitiveness in Europe and Asia by Ramkishen S. Rajan, Tan Khee Giap and Tan Kong Yam Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2014 xii+202. ISBN 978 1 137 40696 5 pp. 194-195

Shinji Asanuma

Institutional Change and the Development of Industrial Clusters in China: Case Studies from Textile and Clothing Industry. Series on Economic Development and Growth Vol. 8 by Jinmin Wang World Scientific, Singapore, 2014 Pp. xxi + 185. ISBN 978 981 4289 04 7 pp. 195-196

Chunlai Chen

Understanding Management in China: Past, Present and Future by Malcolm Warner Routledge, London and New York, 2014 Pp. 244. ISBN 978-0-415-50612-0 pp. 197-197

Dilip K. Das

How Finance is Shaping the Economies of China, Japan and Korea edited by Yung Chul Park and Hugh Patrick (eds) with Larry Meissner Columbia University Press, New York, 2013 Pp. xii + 364. ISBN 978 0 231 16526 6 pp. 198-199

Peter J. Drake

Rebalancing Economies in Financially Integrated East Asia edited by Jenny Corbett and Ying Xu Routledge-ERIA Studies in Development Economics, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2015 Pp. 269 + xviii. ISBN 978 0 415 85936 3 pp. 199-200

Stephen Grenville

New Global Architecture: The Asian Perspective edited by Masahiro Kawai, Peter J. Morgan and Pradumna B. Rana (eds) Edward Elgar, Cheltenham UK, 2014 P. 248. E-ISBN 978 1 78347 220 8 pp. 200-202

Richard Pomfret

Hard Interests, Soft Illusions: Southeast Asia and American Power by Natasha Hamilton-Hart Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 2012 P. 243. ISBN 978 0 8014 5054 9 pp. 202-203

Krislert Samphantharak

Issues in Governance, Growth and Globalisation in Asia edited by Tony Cavoli, Siona Listokin and Ramkishen Rajan (eds) World Scientific, Singapore, 2014 P. 186. ISBN 978 981 4504 94 2 pp. 203-205

Emmanuel A. San Andres

The Global Financial Crisis and the Korean Economy by Jang-Sup Shin Routledge, London, 2014 P. 188. ISBN 978 0 415 52111 6 pp. 205-206

Chung-Sok Suh

The US Strategic Pivot to Asia and Cross-Strait Relations: Economic and Security Dynamics edited by Peter C. Y. Chow (ed.) Palgrave and Macmillan, New York, 2014 Pp. 272. ISBN 978 1137 36462 3 pp. 206-208

Pan-Long Tsai

Volume 28, issue 2, 2014

Real exchange rate determination and the China puzzle pp. 1-32

Rodney Tyers and Ying Zhang

Natural disasters and the economy: some recent experiences from Southeast Asia pp. 33-51

Krislert Samphantharak

Determinants of migration from ASEAN-3 into Malaysia pp. 52-62

Idris Jajri and Rahmah Ismail

Misallocation and manufacturing TFP in Thailand pp. 63-76

Siwapong Dheera-aumpon

Bilateral trade between China and Canada: trends, patterns, and comparisons pp. 77-87

Su Fen and Ehsan Latif

There was once a Korean Model pp. 88-96

Shahid Yusuf

Economic Consequences of Globalization: Evidence from East Asia Architecture of Global Finance edited by Shujiro Urata, Chin Hee Hahn, and Dionisus Nrjoko (eds) Routledge, London, 2012 Pp. xvi + 236. ISBN 978 0415 68642 6 pp. 97-98

Prema-chandra Athukorala

Aging and Economic Growth in the Pacific Region edited by Akira Kohsaka (ed.) Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy, London and New York, 2013 Pp. 176. ISBN 978 0415 52422 3 pp. 98-100

Creina Day

Assessing China's Impact on Poverty in the Greater Mekong Subregion edited by Hossein Jalilian (ed.) ISEAS Publishing, Singapore, 2013 Pp.440. ISBN 978 9814 41419 7 pp. 100-101

Dyna Heng

Economic Growth and Employment in Vietnam by David Lim Routledge, London and New York, 2014 Pp.184. ISBN 978 0415 51944 1 pp. 101-102

Suiwah E. Leung

Widening Income Distribution in Post-Handover Hong Kong by Hon-Kwong Lui Routledge, London and New York, 2013 Pp. 146. ISBN 978 0415 51780 5 (hbk) pp. 102-104

Amy Liu

The Sum is Greater than the Parts: Doubling Shared Prosperity in Indonesia through Local and Global Integration by Australian National University Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School Indonesia Program, and Gramedia, Jakarta, 2013 Pp. xlviii + 274. ISBN 978792299670 pp. 104-105

Ross McLeod

Regional Dynamics in a Decentralised Indonesia edited by Hal Hill (ed.) ISEAS Publishing, Singapore, 2014 Pp. 538. ISBN 978 9814 45985 3 pp. 105-107

Jeff Neilson

The Rebirth of Education: Schooling Ain't Learning by Lant Pritchett Center for Global Development, Washington DC, 2013 Pp. 274. ISBN 978-1-933286-77-8 pp. 107-110

Steve Thomas

Trading Nation: Advancing Australia's Interests in World Markets by Mike Adams, Nicolas Brown, and Ron Wickes NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, 2013 Pp. 404. ISBN 978 1742 23401 4 pp. 110-111

Ray Trewin

The History of Ancient Chinese Economic Thought edited by Cheng Lin, Terry Peach, Wang Fang (eds) Routledge, London and New York, 2014 Pp. 236. ISBN 978 0415 50014 2 pp. 111-113

Xiaobing Wang

Volume 28, issue 1, 2014

Competition policy and intellectual property rights in the information and communications technology sector: Policy implications and options for ASEAN pp. 1-28

Thitapha Wattanapruttipaisan

The challenges of health financing in five South Pacific countries pp. 29-46

Ian Anderson, Susan Ivatts, Aparnaa Somanathan and Benjamin Rolfe

Regional stock markets and the economic development of Southeast Asia pp. 47-59

Scott J. Niblock, Panha Heng and Keith Sloan

ASEAN-5 bond market development: Where does it stand? Where is it going? pp. 60-75

Joshua Felman, Simon Gray, Mangal Goswami, Andreas Jobst, Mahmood Pradhan, Shanaka Peiris and Dulani Seneviratne

Developing ASEAN-5 bond markets: what needs to be done? pp. 76-95

Simon Gray, Joshua Felman, Ana Carvajal and Andreas Jobst

Is there income mobility in the Philippines? pp. 96-115

Arturo Martinez, Mark Western, Michele Haynes and Wojtek Tomaszewski

Poverty identification: practice and policy implications in Vietnam pp. 116-136

Cuong Nguyen and Anh Tran

Commodity prices and monetary policy in emerging East Asia during the global financial crisis pp. 137-160

Hsiao Chink Tang

Export survival pattern and its determinants: an empirical study of Chinese manufacturing firms pp. 161-177

Dahai Fu and Yanrui Wu

The growth path of the dynamic Asian economies pp. 178-186

Dilip K. Das

Catching the Wind: Penang in a Rising Asia edited by Francis E. Hutchinson and Johan Saravanamuttu (eds) Penang Institute, Penang, and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, 2012 Pp. 216. ISBN 978 981 4379 87 8 pp. 187-188

Toh Kin Woon

Demystifying the Chinese Economy by Justin Yifu Lin Cambridge University Press, New York, 2011 Pp. 330. ISBN 978 0 521 19180 7 pp. 189-190

Christopher Findlay

Financial Crisis and Institutional Change in East Asia by Jikon Lai Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2012 Pp. 240. ISBN 978 0 2303 60631 pp. 190-191

Edmund Terence Gomez

Global Economic Crisis: Impacts, Transmission and Recovery edited by Maurice Obstfeld, Dongchul Cho, and Andrew Mason (eds) Edward Elgar, Cheltenham and Northampton, 2012 Pp. 278. ISBN 978 1 78100 629 0 pp. 191-193

Joon-Ho Hahm

Clusters and Economic Growth in Asia edited by Sören Eriksson (ed.) Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2013 Pp. 190. ISBN 978 0 85793 008 8 pp. 193-194

Keiko Ito

Financial Globalization and Regionalism in East Asia edited by Takuji Kinkyo, Yoichi Matsubayashi, and Shigeyuki Hamori (eds) Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, UK, 2012 Pp. 208. ISBN 978-0-415-65984-0 pp. 194-195

Ramkishen Rajan

Middle Class China: Identity and Behaviour by Minglu Chen and David S.G. Goodman Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2013 Pp. 204. ISBN 978 1 78100 570 5 pp. 195-197

Tao Sherry Kong

China as a Leader of the World Economy by Gregory C. Chow World Scientific Publishing Co. Inc., Singapore, 2012 Pp. 223. ISBN 978 9814 36879 7 pp. 197-199

Ligang Song

The ASEAN Economic Community: A Work in Progress edited by Sanchita Basu Das, Jayant Menon, Rodolfo C. Severino, and Omkar Lal Shrestha (eds) Asian Development Bank and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2013 Pp. 407. ISBN 978 981 4519 01 4 pp. 199-200

Linda Low

Shades of Grey: A Political Memoir of Modern Indonesia 1965–1998 by Jusuf Wanandi Equinox Publishing, Singapore, 2012 Pp. 295. ISBN 978 979 3780 92 4 pp. 200-201

Peter McCawley

Education in Indonesia edited by Daniel Suryadarma and Gavin W. Jones (eds) Institute of South East Asian Studies, Singapore, 2013 Pp. 280. ISBN 978 981 4515 04 7 pp. 202-203

Tham Siew Yean

Capitalizing China edited by Joseph P.H. Fan and Randall Morck (eds) Chicago University Press for NBER, Chicago, 2012 Pp. 368. ISBN 978 022 623 7244 pp. 203-205

Xiaobing Wang

Sino-Russian Oil and Gas Cooperation: The Reality and Implications by Keun-Wook Paik Oxford University Press for the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies, Oxford, 2012 Pp. 506. ISBN 978-0-19-965635-6 pp. 205-206

Michael Wesley

China's Economic Development: Institutions, Growth and Imbalances by Ming Lu, Zhao Chen, Yongqin Wang, Yan Zhang, Yuan Zhang, and Changyuan Luo Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2013 Pp. 233. ISBN 978 0 85793 508 3 pp. 206-207

Dong Dong Zhang