Asia-Pacific Contemporary Finance and Development

William A. Barnett is the Oswald Distinguished Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Kansas, Director of the Center for Financial Stability in New York City, Founder and First President of the Society for Economic Measurement, and Editor of the Cambridge University Press journal, Macroeconomic Dynamics.  Bruno S. Sergi is an instructor on the Economics of Emerging Markets and the Political Economy of Russia and China at Harvard University and an Associate of the Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. He also teaches International Economics at the University of Messina. He is the Series Editor of Cambridge Elements in the Economics of Emerging Markets. He has published over 150 articles in professional journals and several books as an author, co-author, editor, or co-editor.

Economists explore contemporary finance and economic development in the Asia-Pacific region from such perspectives as short-term cross-currency basis swap and Japanese government bond markets under non-traditional monetary policy, modeling critical success factors of Thai retailers: an interpretive structural modeling approach, Central Asia and China: financial development through cooperation with Russia, corporate political activity and financial performance: a corporate social responsibility perspective, and explaining systemic risk in the Latin American banking industry 2002-15.

• 1. Asia Pacific, TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) and US; the Network Perspective; Hakeem Muhammad Mohsin and Ken-ichi Suzuki 2. Short-Term Cross-Currency Basis Swap and Japanese Government Bond Markets under Non-Traditional Monetary Policy; Takayasu Ito  3. The Impacts of Working Capital Policy on Firm's Performances: An Empirical Study on Thai Listed Companies in Production Sector; Chosita Pestonji and Sareeya Wichitsathian 4. Local amenities and geographic disparity in population and industry distribution in Korea; Junhong Im and Sung Hyo Hong 5. Modeling of Critical Success Factors of Thai Retailers: Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) approach; Supachart Iamratanakul 6. Strategic Risk Management in the Chinese Property and Casualty Insurance Industry; Yayun Yan and Sampan Nettayanun 7. Economic Consequences of Insider-ownership: An Emerging Market Perspective; Hassaan Tariq, Faisal Shahzad, Asim Anwar, and Ijaz Ur Rehman 8. Central Asia and China: Financial Development Through Cooperation with Russia; Bruno S. Sergi, Elena Popkova, Natalia Vovchenko, and Marina Ponomareva 9. The Impact of Risk-taking on Firm Volatility; See-Nie Lee 10. What Determines Sukuk Issuance Type in Indonesia?; Datien Eriska Utami, Irwan Trinugroho, and Bruno S. Sergi 11. Does method of corporate diversification matter to firm performance?; Ling-Foon Chan, Bany-Ariffin An, and Annual Bin Md Nasir 12. Corporate Political Activity and Financial Performance: A Corporate Social Responsibility Perspective; Woon Leong Lin, Murali Sambasivan, Jo Ann Ho, and Siong Hook Law 13. Consumption Propensity and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from China; Mingzhi Hu, Jiaqi Liu, and Xue Wang 14. Explaining Systemic Risk in Latin American banking industry over 2002-2015; Carlo Bellavite Pellegrini, Laura Pellegrini, and Emiliano Sironi