This study analyzes how the insurance distribution channel can affect insurance fraud. It uses econometric models that confirm the existence of claim manipulation as a form of insurance fraud, whereby policyholders circumvent the bonus-malus system and reduce the actual burden of insurance...

This study develops a novel AI-based trading framework designed to consistently generate profits across cyclical bullish and bearish futures markets. Unlike conventional strategies that rely on static rules or a single predictive model, the proposed framework introduces a dual-agent deep...

With the growth of the digital economy and environmental concerns, an increasing number of manufacturing firms are leveraging digitalization to advance their green innovation and sustainable development. Although previous studies have examined the impact of digitalization on green innovation,...

Postwar land reforms in East Asia were implemented as a geopolitical strategy to curb communism expansion. This paper evaluates their long-term political effects in Japan and Taiwan. In Japan, reform increased support for conservative parties and reduced backing for socialist and communist...

This paper studies how liberalising outward foreign direct investments (FDI) affects manufacturers’ engagement in global production and their domestic workers’ labor market outcomes. Focusing on a liberalisation policy in 2001 by the government of Taiwan that allowed 122 electronic products...

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has been undergoing fundamental structural reform aimed at improving operational preparedness and combat capability. The imperative of a military loyal to the Communist Party dominates China's defence policy and permeates the PLA's organisational...

We analyze the interaction between the Taiwan central bank's profits and its policies. To earn large and consistent profits, the Taiwan central bank significantly expanded its balance sheet and relied on inexpensive short-term domestic funding to invest in longer-term foreign debt securities. In...

Purpose - This research aims to examine the US-China policy shift from Obama to Biden emphasizing the centrality of Taiwan question in the geostrategic competition with Beijing and its prospect if the US strategy remains unchanged. Design/methodology/approach - A conceptual framework is...

Southeast Asia has long been a foreign policy priority for Japan, but Tokyo has intensified its engagement - both with the ASEAN Commu­nity as a whole and with individual member states - since 2012. Japan views China’s growing influence in Southeast Asia as a major foreign policy challenge...

Purpose - We investigate the relationship between family firms and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) turnover and the moderating role of corporate transparency in this association, using firms listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE). Design/methodology/approach - Using a sample of 15,726 firm-year...

Based on Stimulus-organism-response theory, this study examines the significant role of green practices in influencing green revisit intentions through the creation of green image and green trust. The quantitative research involved reliability analysis, exploratory factor analysis, measurement...

This study conducted a survival analysis using the Cox proportional hazard model based on the most disaggregated trade data for footwear products exported from Taiwan to 122 countries in 1999-2019. Footwear products can be classified into parts and final products. The empirical results indicated...

Purpose: This study investigates the multifaceted role of Taiwan's venture capital (VC) industry in the development of financial technology (Fintech) startups. Specifically, it examines the VC industry's contributions as resource providers, risk managers, and value creators throughout the...

Babson College's entrepreneurship education enjoys global recognition, having been ranked as the top entrepreneurship university in the world 25 times. This study explored the application of Babson College's practices by educators in Taiwan, focusing on four professors who participated in...

Purpose This study investigates how green inclusive leadership (GIL) influences hotel employees' green organizational citizenship behavior (GOCB) through the mediating role of green self-efficacy (GSE) and the moderating effects of demographic variables. Drawing upon social exchange theory (SET)...

Space as a domain of economic and security competition between great powers has risen to become an arena of active statecraft for middle powers in the twenty-first century. It has set a high-stake stage for not only continuing struggles for catch-up industrialization of late developers but also...

The relationship between Japan and China is of far-reaching importance for peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific, as the two countries are the world’s fourth- and second-largest economies, respectively. Over the past 15 years, bilateral tensions have deepened markedly, even as the two...

This work develops an inverse data envelopment analysis (Inverse DEA) framework for portfolio optimization, treating return as a desirable output and volatility as an undesirable output. Using 20 industry-level portfolios from the Taiwan Stock Exchange (1365 stocks; FY-2020), we first evaluate...

How did Taiwan, a former Japanese colony and the last fortress of the defeated Chinese Nationalists, ascend to such heights in high-tech manufacturing? In this book, Honghong Tinn tells the critical history of how hobbyists and enthusiasts in Taiwan, including engineers, technologists,...

In the past few decades, companies have begun to pay attention to the issue of whether companies that are engaged in CSR activities enhance firm value remains a subject of debate. From the perspective of agency theory, high-CSR companies can encounter poor financial performance and a reduction...

We study the out-of-sample forecasting performance of 32 exchange rates vis-a-vis the New Taiwan Dollar (NTD) in a 32-variable vector autoregression (VAR) model. The Bayesian approach is applied to the large-scale VAR model (LBVAR), and its (timevarying) forecasting performance is compared to...