Journal of Asian Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Asian Economics is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Fertility and female mental health80
Health spending efficiency in developing Asia56
Enterprise digital transformation and investment efficiency: Empirical evidence from listed enterprises in China54
How artificial intelligence applications affect the total factor productivity of the service industry: Firm-level evidence from China50
Exploring the influence of extreme heat on corporate energy efficiency49
Self-employment of Chinese rural labor force: Subsistence or opportunity?—An empirical study based on nationally representative micro-survey data44
Individual preferences toward inward foreign direct investment: A survey experiment42
How does flexible tax enforcement affect TFP? China’s exceptional approach38
Understanding BOXPI — Industry portfolio perspectives33
International spillovers of U.S. monetary uncertainty and equity market volatility to China’s stock markets33
Editorial Board32
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Trust and contracting with foreign banks: Evidence from China30
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Tracing the regional dual value chains: Measurement on the production position and evidence from China29
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The aging tax on potential growth in Asia28
Inequality of opportunity in earnings in rural China27
Loan-to-value policy in a bubble-creation economy24
The pricing of China stock index options based on monetary policy uncertainty24
A real options study on cook stove CDM project under emission allowance price uncertainty24
Assortative matching and commercial insurance participation: Evidence from the China Household Finance Survey24
The effect of family planning exposure on fertility choices and reproductive health care in rural Pakistan23
Early-life exposure to earthquakes and its long-term effects on human capital outcomes: The case of Myanmar23
OFDI and stock returns: Evidence from manufacturing firms listed on the Chinese A-shares market23
Graduating to a gender wage gap in South Korea23
Impact of risk-taking on enterprise value under extreme temperature: From the perspectives of external and internal governance22
Is the COVID-19 pandemic more contagious for the Asian stock markets? A comparison with the Asian financial, the US subprime and the Eurozone debt crisis22
Physical activity, leisure-time, cognition and academic grades: Connections and causal effects in Chinese students21
Can export trade drive green transformation development of Chinese enterprises? based on the dual perspectives of export density and export domestic value-added rate21
Competition, asset build up and export incentives: The role of imperfect credit market20
Tax incentive and corporate financial performance: Evidence from income tax revenue sharing reform in China20
Regulatory stringency and behavior in a common pool resource game: Lab and field experiments19
Impact of regulating political connections on employee welfare attitude: Evidence from China19
The asymmetric effects of oil price changes on China’s exports: New evidence from a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag model19
Estimating the effects of regional value chains of the RCEP in a GVC-CGE model19
How can quality regional spending reduce poverty and improve human development index?19
Rules of origin and exports in developing economies: The case of garment products18
Forecasts for international financial series with VMD algorithms18
IPO relative difficulty, M&A option and size effect18
The impact of the innovation city project on the local economy: Evidence from Korean Innovation City Project from 2012 to 201417
Can anti-corruption help realize the “strong” Porter Hypothesis in China? Evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises17
Beyond the modern productivity paradox: The effect of robotics technology on firm-level total factor productivity in China17
The social scar of the pandemic: Impacts of COVID-19 exposure on interpersonal trust16
Job insecurity and fertility: Evidence from massive lay-offs in urban China16
The impact of monetary and fiscal stimulus on stock returns during the COVID-19 Pandemic16
Nexus between export, productivity, and competitiveness in the Indian manufacturing sector15
The effect of monetary, macroprudential policy, and their interaction on bank risk-taking in Indonesia15
Shadow banking, macroprudential policy, and bank stability: Evidence from China’s wealth management product market15
Export spillover from foreign direct investment in China during pre- and post-WTO accession14
Determinants and impacts of rural crime victimization: Evidence from a case study in Southeast Asia14
Executives’ institutional reform experience, IP protection and R&D investment: Evidence from China's reform and opening up14
Outward FDI, industrial structure upgrading and domestic employment: empirical evidence from the Chinese economy and the belt and road initiative14
Inflation comovement in emerging economies: The facts and impact of global prices14
An intraday-return-based Value-at-Risk model driven by dynamic conditional score with censored generalized Pareto distribution13
Knowing when to splurge: Precautionary saving and Chinese-Canadians13
Does cross-border M&A improve merging firms’ domestic performances?13
Internationalization speed and subsidiary survival of EMNCs: The moderating roles of CEO international experience and state ownership13
Spread of E-commerce, prices and inflation dynamics: Evidence from online price big data in Korea13
Local government consumption and firm performance: Evidence from the "TPCs" in China13
Can foreign direct investment promote BIT signing?13
Shadow banking activities of non-financial companies and the information content of stock prices12
Determinants of technical efficiency and farmers’ crop choice rationality: A case study of rural Gansu, China12
Gender imbalance, wife’s bargain power and shrinking household size in Rural China12
Does religion belief matter to self-employment of rural elderly? Evidence from China12
The informational content of implied volatility: Application to the USD/JPY exchange rates12
Does it pay to be green? The impact of emissions reduction on corporate tax burden12
The polarization and constraints of scale farming in China under the impact of rising wages12
Reining in the riskiest? Evidence of non-linear impacts of macroprudential regulations on bank systemic risk in China11
The impact of China’s outward foreign direct investment on domestic innovation11
Trade liberalization induced profitability enhancement? The impact of intermediate input imports on firm profitability11
Do the types of agricultural socialized services and their diverse suppliers matter to farmland renting in rural China?11
Inflation targeting and monetary policy response in India11
Does productive microcredit improve rural children's education? Evidence from rural Vietnam11
Temperature exposure and health inequality11
Food inflation and monetary policy in emerging economies11
Human capital of grassroots leaders and vulnerability to poverty: Evidence from rural China11
Will monetary policy affect energy security? Evidence from Asian countries10
Impact of the Internet on the exports in ocean-based manufacturing: Firm-level evidence from China10
Time use among urban women in China at different income levels10
The impact of artificial intelligence on labor market: A study based on bibliometric analysis10
Carbon capture and storage investment strategy towards the dual carbon goals10
Does bank competition affect the transmission mechanism of monetary policy through bank lending channel? Evidence from India10
Dynamic impact of shadow economy and corruption on environmental sustainability: What role renewable energy consumption play in case of South Asian Economies10
The income distribution effects of environmental regulation in China: The case of binding SO2 reduction targets10
Peer effects of local students on the human capital of migrant children in middle schools: Evidence from China9
COVID-19 and the intentions to migrate from developing countries: Evidence from online search activities in Southeast Asia9
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Mechanism and simulation of intensive use of urban inefficient land based on evolutionary game theory9
The COVID-19 pandemic and the world trade network9
Equity market responses to surprise Covid-19 lockdowns: The role of pandemic-driven uncertainty9
Returning the favor: Official consumption and government–company reciprocity8
Non-traded goods, firm dynamics and wages in a service economy8
Formation of symmetric free-trade blocs, optimal tariff structure, and world welfare8
Trade and employment in the formal and informal sectors: A natural experiment from Cambodia8
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The effect of paternal parenting behaviors on children development in western rural China8
Preventing a new baby: Impact of air pollution on fertility intention8
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Overflowing waters, diluted investments: The enduring impact of historical Yellow River floods on enterprise fixed assets investments8
Impact of uncertainty and exchange rate shocks: Theory and global empirics8
Reference-dependent preferences and probability judgments8
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Impacts of an international bridge on households: Evidence from Thailand7
Does economic uncertainty affect the soundness of banks? Evidence from emerging Asian economies7
Economic and environmental outcomes of economic transition: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in China7
Behind the heterogeneous trade effects of standards: Multi-sector evidence from China7
Foreign trade and innovation sustainability: Evidence from China7
Parenthood penalty and gender wage gap: Recent evidence from Thailand7
Testing for the uncovered interest parity condition in a small open economy: A state space modelling approach7
Professor Ronald W. Jones and his influence on Asia Pacific economics7
Job reallocation in Korean manufacturing: 1984–20147
The impact of highways on commodity prices: The price of butter in Japan6
Sleeplessness in COVID-19 pandemic: Lockdown and anxiety6
The gender wage gap in Myanmar: Adding insult to injury?6
How to explain the inverted U-shaped curve of tax centralization in China?6
Do house prices play a role in unconventional monetary policy transmission in Japan?6
The haze reduction effect in china under the digital economy6
Parental non-cognitive abilities and child mental health6
Dynamic price discovery in Chinese agricultural futures markets6
The information externality of public firms’ employment in the municipal corporate bond market in China6
Reducing farmland abandonment by raising women’s education levels: Evidence from China6
Government relocation and air pollution: Evidence from China6
Welfare and productivity of the Chinese regional economy under forced technology transfer in the post-intervention period of the Green Credit Policy6
The role of borrowing in crisis coping among ultra-poor households in rural Bangladesh5
Confucian culture, public education expenditure, and economic growth5
Do export tax rebates promote firm upgrading? Evidences from labor-intensive firms in China5
Testing the presence of borrowing constraints from consumption responses to housing deposit changes5
Understanding income volatility in urban China5
Off-farm employment, farmland transfer and agricultural investment behavior: A study of joint decision-making among North China Plain farmers5
On the global COVID-19 pandemic and China’s FDI5
International comparison of the impact of digital transformation on employment5
Trade credit and financial crises in Kazakhstan5
Managing leverage of infrastructure projects: Aggregate and sectoral risk effect5
Artificial intelligence and intergenerational occupational mobility5
Investment dynamics and capital distortion: State and non-state firms in China5
Highway usage efficiency and debt burden: Evidence from China5
Macroprudential policy and household wealth inequality: Evidence from China5
Time-varying and spillover effects of the macroeconomy on nonfinancial corporate financialization: Evidence from China5
Economic and environmental performance of the belt and road countries under convex and nonconvex production technologies5
Ideological taboos, entry barriers, and FDI attraction: Evidence from China5
The implications of the New Silk Road Railways on local development4
Political connections and bias in ESG news4
The Arab Spring, a setback for gender equality? Evidence from the Gallup World Poll4
Oil price uncertainty and the cost of debt: Evidence from the Chinese bond market4
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Does social trust promote the size of enterprises? Evidence from China4
A nonlinear ARDL model of inflation dynamics in the Philippine economy4
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Intelligent manufacturing and corporate human capital upgrade in China4
China's labor market demand in the shadow of COVID-19: Evidence from an online job board4
Trade policy uncertainty, development strategy, and export behavior: Evidence from listed industrial companies in China4
Introduction to special issue on “Uncertainty and Risk Management for Asian Economies”4
The dynamic linkages between current account deficit and budget balance deficit in the South Asian region4
Board characteristics and efficiency of value added by banks: Evidence from an emerging economy4
Energy efficiency and productivity in emerging and developing Asian countries: A firm level analysis4
Effects of urban-rural medical insurance integration on health: Evidence from rural China4
The impact of robot adoption on firm’s OFDI: Evidence from China4
Economic impact of 2015 transboundary haze on Singapore4
High housing prices and low social integration of China’s new generation migrants in cities4
Can overseas R&D improve domestic industry-university-research institutions’ cooperation?4
The impact of differential power pricing policy on firm productivity in China: Evidence from iron and steel firms4
Does increasing robot density exacerbate wealth inequality?4
Trends and drivers of income inequality in the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam since the early 2000s: A decomposition analysis4
Incentives for mechanized cane harvesting in Thailand: A choice experiment4
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Financing China’s cotton textile industry: 1890–19364
Effect of place-based policies on the digital economy: Evidence from the Smart City Program in China4
Does Fintech benefit financial disintermediation? Evidence based on provinces in China from 2013 to 20184
The impact of AI adoption on R&D productivity: Evidence from Chinese pharmaceutical manufacturing industry4
Human capital dynamics in China: Evidence from a club convergence approach3
Measuring trade creation effects of free trade agreements: Evidence from wine trade in East Asia3
The quality of host government and China’s OFDI: Construction of micro-evaluation model of government quality3
Impact of high-speed rail on the mismatch of labor and industry allocations: Evidence from Chinese cities in 2000-20193
Medium and long-term impact of SARS on total factor productivity(TFP): Empirical evidence from Chinese industrial enterprises3
The impact of an accelerated depreciation tax policy on employment: Evidence from China3
Employee satisfaction and digital transformation: Evidence from China’s Top 100 Best Employers list3
Do renewable energy investment and financial development mitigate climate change?3
Why more restricted stocks, less stock options?--An explanation based on the preference of regulators of China?3
Human capital inflow, firm innovation and patent mix3
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The impact of internet use on entrepreneurial behavior and income: Evidence from Chinese rural households3
Formula feeding: Evidence for health, nutrition and early childhood development during the critical first 1000 days from rural China3
Technological diffusion, migration and entrepreneurship in China3
Demonetisation and labour force participation in India: The impact of governance and political alignment3
Impacts of high-speed rail construction on land prices in urban agglomerations: Evidence from Kyushu in Japan3
Forecasting corporate financial distress in the Southeast Asian countries: A market-based approach3
Migration, population aging, and income inequality in China3
The effects of capacity reduction policy under the interest rate peg in China3
How to guide venture capital to startups? Evidence from China's Science and Technology Innovation Board3
From ancient philosophy to modern governance: Confucian culture shaping low-carbon corporate transformation in China’s listed companies2
The long-term influence of education resources allocation on the migration: Evidence from the China’s rural school consolidation policy2
Macroeconomic effects of uncertainty shocks: Evidence from Korea2
A wise investment by urban governments: Evidence from intelligent sports facilities2
The mobility of top earnings, income, and wealth in China: Facts from the 2011–2017 China household finance survey2
Elections and COVID-19 benefit payments2
Cross-category spillover effects of economic policy uncertainty between China and the US: Time and frequency evidence2
Financial literacy, farmland mortgage financing, and household entrepreneurship: Empirical evidence from rural China2
Does China’s market opening eased its trade partners’ domestic conflicts? – Evidence from China’s WTO accession2
Differences in returns to cross-border M&A in the short and long run: Evidence from Chinese listed firms2
Processing export and firms’ social security contributions in China: The role of supply chain pressure2
Wage differentials between local and foreign workers in Macao: Discrimination?2
Does parental migration matter in access to academic high schools for left-behind children in China?2
Infrastructure and poverty reduction: Assessing the dynamic impact of Chinese infrastructure investment in sub-Saharan Africa2
COVID-19 and trade: Simulated asymmetric loss2
Time-varying inter-urban housing price spillovers in China: Causes and consequences2
Research of the non-linear dynamic relationship between global economic policy uncertainty and crude oil prices2
Can trade liberalization promote green production? Evidence from China's manufacturing enterprises2
Family background and intergenerational mobility in a transition economy: Evidence from China2
Trade with innovation benefits: A re-appraisal using micro data from China2
Data policy restrictions and cross-border E-commerce: Evidence from China2
Names with rare Chinese characters and mental ill-being2
Bank dependency on foreign funding and global liquidity shocks: The importance of US monetary policy for a developing country2
How does the spatial agglomeration of human capital affect strategic innovation in China?2
Possible development path for agricultural economic and trade cooperation in FTAAP: A numerical simulation2
Does it matter who gives information? The impact of information sources on farmers’ pesticide use in China2
Does carbon emission trading system induce enterprises’ green innovation?2
Does managerial ability matter for cross-border M&As: Evidence from Chinese listed firms2
Smart city construction and quality upgrading of export products: Evidence from China1
Choice of ethnic identity under educational incentives: Ethnic identity manipulation and the bonus policy for the college entrance examination1
Parenthood and the gender wage gap in urban China1
Climbing the economic ladder: Earnings inequality and intragenerational mobility among Thai formal workers1
FDI commitments increase when uncertainty is resolved: Evidence from Asia1
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A dissection of Indian growth using a DSGE filter1
Parental and sibling influence on study field choice: Gender-stereotypical or field preference transmission1
Impact of global liquidity on Indian financial markets and monetary policy outcomes: An ARDL approach1
Property tax and housing wealth inequality: Evidence from China1
Determinants of international students’ decision to remain in Japan to work after graduation1
The long-term economic impact of water quality: Evidence from rural drinking water program in China1
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Taxation officers’ grassroots work experience and tax performance: Evidence from China1
Is environmental regulation a powerful weapon to mitigate China’s PM2.5 emissions? The role of human capital1
How is the Asian economy recovering from COVID-19? Evidence from the emissions of air pollutants1
The quantity–quality trade-off related to investment in healthy human capital: New evidence from the implementation of the “selective two-child policy” in China1
Productivity and market participation: Cambodian rice farmers1
Impact of Return Migration on Employment Structure: Evidence from Rural China1
Credit creation, credit destruction and credit reallocation: Firm-level evidence from India1
Banks’ net interest rate spread and the transmission of monetary policy in Korea1
Exploring price level trajectory in India: Does it validate the fiscal theory of price level?1
Labor protection and firms’ risk-taking behavior: evidence from China’s New Labor Contract Law1
The effect of trade openness and exchange rate on inflation targeting in Thailand1
China's Low-carbon city policy and manufacturing firms' servitization: Do environmental regulations matterʔ1
Firm-Level Impacts and Recovery Dynamics Following a Public Health Crisis: Lessons from China’s SARS Experience1
Social security fee reduction, industrial robots, and labor income share1
The Belt and Road Initiative and China's diversifying food imports: A perspective on the "Five-pronged approach"1
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