Books reviewed: William Coleman and Alf Hagger, The Rage Over Economic Rationalism and the Campaign Against Australian Economists Hian Teck Hoon, Trade, Jobs and Wages Yoram Amiel and Frank A. Cowell, Thinking About Inequality Paul Downward and Alistair Dawson, The Economics of Professional Team...

This paper, based on Campbell (2000), introduces investor sentiment-related variables to a logarithm model, aiming to examine the relationship between dividend rate and investment horizons in the emerging Growth Enterprise Market of China. Using data sample of 243 IPO firms during 2009-2012, the...

It has been a hot debit whether a monetary union is feasible in the East Asian region. Most of the existing studies focus on the symmetric issue of the fundamental shocks and the extent of correlation by applying the Blanchard and Quah (1989) structural vector autoregression (VAR) technique,...

This paper examines the conditional time-varying currency betas from five developed markets and four emerging markets. We employ BEKK multivariate GARCH models of Engle and Kroner (1995) to estimate the time-varying conditional variance and covariance of returns of stock index, the world market...