This study examines the technical change and efficiency in knowledge-based production of the selected East-Asia Countries using a panel stochastic frontier analysis. The empirical results indicate that Japan, Singapore, Korea, Malaysia and China appear to be the most efficient countries in the...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the behaviour of four Southeast Asian stock markets during the intervals of high uncertainties that accompany crises. Our analysis emphasises the effect of unexpected volatility shifts on market efficiency of the four emerging Southeast Asian markets over...

The efficient market hypothesis (EMH) in the weak-form requires that there is no serial correlation between the returns at different times and successive price changes. On the contrary, stock returns displaying statistically significant autocorrelation between observations widely separated in...

The dynamic causal chain among money, real output, interest rate, and inflation is Reexamined in the context of a small fast-growing economy using the recently developed techniques of Johansen's multivariate conitegration analysis followed by vector error-correction modelling, Granger causality,...

This study examines the role of economic globalization in financial development in eight East Asian economies. The heterogeneous panel cointegration test reveals that cointegration is present among economic globalization, institutions, financial development, real gross domestic product per...

We examine whether the relationship between financial development and income inequality varies with levels of institutional quality. The empirical evidence based on the threshold regression approach shows that there indeed exists an institutional quality threshold effect in the relationship...

The present study examines the sensitivity of commercial banks' stock excess returns to their volatility and financial risk factors, measured by interest rates and exchange rates, across the recent Asian financial crisis. In general, we found that there were no significant differences among...