Pub Date : 2022-06-23DOI: 10.1080/13547860.2022.2080428
Jagannath Mallick, Anqi Zhang
Abstract The paper examines the dynamic impact of GVCs on productivity growth in 14 Asian economies, from 1995 to 2016. OECD and Asia Productivity Organisation data show that in the last few decades there has been a rapid expansion of GVCs in the majority of the Asian economies. We employ the panel Auto-regressive Distributed Lag method to empirically evaluate the impact of GVCs participation on ‘total factor productivity growth’ and ‘labor productivity growth’. The empirical results point to the significant effect of GVCs on domestic productivity growth in the long run in the selected Asian economies, while the effect on labor productivity growth is larger than that on total factor productivity growth. However, GVCs does not affect it in the short-run. If excluded the six high-income economies and only focused on the middle-income countries, we find forward GVCs promotes domestic productivity in long run, while the backward GVCs does not.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-18DOI: 10.1080/13547860.2022.2088511
Yanming Sun, Shuhan Duan, Lili Wang, Caili Yang
Abstract This study examines the relationship between uncertainty and China’s cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Based on 1847 cross-border M&A deals made by Chinese firms in 130 countries and regions over the period of 2002 − 2018, we find that Chinese acquirers are less likely to conduct cross-border M&A deals when uncertainty is high in the target country. The results are robust to alternative samples and measures of uncertainty. Furthermore, we find that uncertainty has a dynamic impact on China’s cross-border M&As. Variations in the economic environment close to the time of an announcement have a greater influence on affecting the final occurrence of M&A transactions than those in a more distant period. Lastly, market conditions are important in shaping the effects of uncertainty on M&As. The negative effects of uncertainty are larger in countries with weaker financial markets and government regulation and lower levels of openness.
{"title":"Uncertainty and China’s cross-border mergers and acquisitions","authors":"Yanming Sun, Shuhan Duan, Lili Wang, Caili Yang","doi":"10.1080/13547860.2022.2088511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2022.2088511","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study examines the relationship between uncertainty and China’s cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Based on 1847 cross-border M&A deals made by Chinese firms in 130 countries and regions over the period of 2002 − 2018, we find that Chinese acquirers are less likely to conduct cross-border M&A deals when uncertainty is high in the target country. The results are robust to alternative samples and measures of uncertainty. Furthermore, we find that uncertainty has a dynamic impact on China’s cross-border M&As. Variations in the economic environment close to the time of an announcement have a greater influence on affecting the final occurrence of M&A transactions than those in a more distant period. Lastly, market conditions are important in shaping the effects of uncertainty on M&As. The negative effects of uncertainty are larger in countries with weaker financial markets and government regulation and lower levels of openness.","PeriodicalId":46618,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy","volume":"27 1","pages":"515 - 533"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46252368","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}
Pub Date : 2022-06-02DOI: 10.1080/13547860.2022.2082162
Dayu Liu, Yang Song, Dekai Chen
{"title":"Time-varying comparison of the effectiveness of China’s price- and quantity-based monetary policy tools: an empirical analysis based on the TVP-FA-S-VAR model","authors":"Dayu Liu, Yang Song, Dekai Chen","doi":"10.1080/13547860.2022.2082162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2022.2082162","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46618,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48279674","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}
Pub Date : 2022-05-24DOI: 10.1080/13547860.2022.2073658
Lichao Wu, Yanpeng Jiang, Fanda Yang
{"title":"The impact of high speed railway on government expenditure on poverty alleviation in China —Evidence from Chinese poverty counties","authors":"Lichao Wu, Yanpeng Jiang, Fanda Yang","doi":"10.1080/13547860.2022.2073658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2022.2073658","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46618,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41988222","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}
Pub Date : 2022-05-18DOI: 10.1080/13547860.2022.2077543
P. Wad
{"title":"Automotive Industrialisation. Industrial Policy and Development in Southeast Asia","authors":"P. Wad","doi":"10.1080/13547860.2022.2077543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2022.2077543","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46618,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy","volume":"27 1","pages":"590 - 593"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48779601","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}
Pub Date : 2022-05-18DOI: 10.1080/13547860.2022.2072095
Yongji Zhang, Shikai Cao, Xinxuan Lin, Zhi Su, Ke Wang
{"title":"Corporate financial decision under green credit guidelines: evidence from China","authors":"Yongji Zhang, Shikai Cao, Xinxuan Lin, Zhi Su, Ke Wang","doi":"10.1080/13547860.2022.2072095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2022.2072095","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46618,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48751791","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}
Pub Date : 2022-05-13DOI: 10.1080/13547860.2022.2072608
Xiaoshan Hu, Guanghua Wan, Tongjin Zhang
Abstract Does health aid help reduce infant mortality? Despite a growing literature, existing findings have no consensus. To investigate the relationship between health aid and infant mortality, this paper applies polynomial inverse lag (PIL) framework to panel data from 131 countries over the period 2002–2019, and focuses on the instant and long-term impacts of health aid on infant mortality. The results indicate that health aid can effectively reduce infant mortality and it has a greatest effect in the current year. More specifically, a 1% rise in health aid causes a 1.53% drop in infant mortality instantly, though the impact tails off over time. The results maintain robustness across specifications. Heterogeneity test shows that health aid’s benign impact is more pronounced in deep poverty countries. Finally, it is found that aid raises public health expenditure of recipient countries, leading to a better health care system and a lower infant mortality.
{"title":"Does health aid reduce infant mortality? Cross-country evidence","authors":"Xiaoshan Hu, Guanghua Wan, Tongjin Zhang","doi":"10.1080/13547860.2022.2072608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2022.2072608","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Does health aid help reduce infant mortality? Despite a growing literature, existing findings have no consensus. To investigate the relationship between health aid and infant mortality, this paper applies polynomial inverse lag (PIL) framework to panel data from 131 countries over the period 2002–2019, and focuses on the instant and long-term impacts of health aid on infant mortality. The results indicate that health aid can effectively reduce infant mortality and it has a greatest effect in the current year. More specifically, a 1% rise in health aid causes a 1.53% drop in infant mortality instantly, though the impact tails off over time. The results maintain robustness across specifications. Heterogeneity test shows that health aid’s benign impact is more pronounced in deep poverty countries. Finally, it is found that aid raises public health expenditure of recipient countries, leading to a better health care system and a lower infant mortality.","PeriodicalId":46618,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy","volume":"27 1","pages":"534 - 550"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44053833","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}
Pub Date : 2022-05-11DOI: 10.1080/13547860.2022.2073659
Justin T. Callais, Linan Peng
{"title":"The impact of place-based policy: evidence from a multiple synthetic control analysis of the northeastern revitalization program in China","authors":"Justin T. Callais, Linan Peng","doi":"10.1080/13547860.2022.2073659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2022.2073659","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46618,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47550938","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}
Pub Date : 2022-05-07DOI: 10.1080/13547860.2022.2068825
Yang Liu, Jing Li, L. Lei, Lingli Xiao
Abstract This study investigates the impact and transmission mechanism of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on the economic growth of city clusters. Via theoretical analysis, a spatial Durbin model (SDM) and mediating effect model are applied based on panel data of the three major city clusters in the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) from 1997 to 2018. The results reveal the following: (1) FDI inflows promote the economic growth of city clusters in the YREB, but the degrees of impacts on the three city clusters are different; (2) the spatial effects of FDI inflows differ across city clusters; the effects are negative in city clusters of the Yangtze River Delta and the Yangtze River Middle Reaches, and positive in the Chengdu-Chongqing city cluster; (3) urbanization and industrial structure upgrading are two important mechanisms by which FDI inflows promote the economic growth of city clusters. However, there are differences among the three major city clusters; the intermediary effect of urbanization is more significant in city clusters of Chengdu-Chongqing and the Yangtze River Middle Reaches, while the intermediary effect of industrial structure upgrading is more significant in the Yangtze River Delta and Chengdu-Chongqing city clusters. Policy implications are proposed accordingly.
{"title":"FDI inflows and the economic growth of city clusters: evidence from China's Yangtze River Economic Belt","authors":"Yang Liu, Jing Li, L. Lei, Lingli Xiao","doi":"10.1080/13547860.2022.2068825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2022.2068825","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study investigates the impact and transmission mechanism of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on the economic growth of city clusters. Via theoretical analysis, a spatial Durbin model (SDM) and mediating effect model are applied based on panel data of the three major city clusters in the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) from 1997 to 2018. The results reveal the following: (1) FDI inflows promote the economic growth of city clusters in the YREB, but the degrees of impacts on the three city clusters are different; (2) the spatial effects of FDI inflows differ across city clusters; the effects are negative in city clusters of the Yangtze River Delta and the Yangtze River Middle Reaches, and positive in the Chengdu-Chongqing city cluster; (3) urbanization and industrial structure upgrading are two important mechanisms by which FDI inflows promote the economic growth of city clusters. However, there are differences among the three major city clusters; the intermediary effect of urbanization is more significant in city clusters of Chengdu-Chongqing and the Yangtze River Middle Reaches, while the intermediary effect of industrial structure upgrading is more significant in the Yangtze River Delta and Chengdu-Chongqing city clusters. Policy implications are proposed accordingly.","PeriodicalId":46618,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy","volume":"27 1","pages":"470 - 494"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49296456","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}
Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13547860.2022.2067934
Cui Zhang, Baifang Wang
{"title":"Agglomeration economies and firm performance in Chinese cities: does CEO educational specialization matter","authors":"Cui Zhang, Baifang Wang","doi":"10.1080/13547860.2022.2067934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13547860.2022.2067934","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46618,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41917917","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}
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