Advances in Pacific Basin Business, Economics and Finance

Advances in Pacific Basin Business, Economics and Finance (APBBEF) is a series designed to focus on interdisciplinary research in finance, economics, and management among Pacific Rim countries. All articles published are peer-reviewed and recommended by one editorial board member. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: 1. Policy and management on financial markets and financial institutions; 2. Options, futures, and other derivatives markets; 3. Corporate finance and investment decisions; 4. Insurance and risk management; 5. Accounting, auditing, and taxation; 6. Artificial intelligence and new technology in finance; 7. ESG and sustainability; 8. Income, employment, and education; 9. Monetary and foreign exchange policy; 10. Other economic policies among the Pacific Rim countries. APBBEF is indexed in ABI/INFORM, EconLit, EBSCO, ProQuest, ResearchGate, and Google Scholar. Manuscript submission: Please use an email attachment in Microsoft Word format or PDF to Dr. Min-Teh Yu (mtyu@nycu.edu.tw) or Dr. Cheng-Few Lee (cflee@business.rutgers.edu).

Chapter 1. Corporate Pension Funding and Investments: Evidence from Asia Pacific Countries; Yong H. Kim, Bochen Li, Miyoun Paek, and Tong Yu Chapter 2. Seasoning Effects in Corporate Bond Markets; Haoyu Gao, Ruixiang Jiang, Junbo Wang, and Xiaoguang Yang Chapter 3. Evidence of Gold as a Hedge or Safe haven Against Risks and Policy Uncertainty; Thomas C. Chiang Chapter 4. Smart Learning: Information Role of Leading Security Analysts; Chia-Wei Huang, Chih-Yen Lin, and Chin-Te Yu Chapter 5. How Well Do Banks Manage Their Credit Risk? A DEA Approach; Ren-Raw Chen and Chu-Hua Kuei Chapter 6. Liquidity and Other Risk Factors: Evidence from the Chinese Stock Market; Yan He, Ruixiang Jiang, Yanchu Wang, and Hongquan Zhu Chapter 7. Optimizing Portfolios with ESG, Dividends, Volatility Factors via Machine Learning; Hsing-Hua Chang, Chen-Hsin Lai, Kuen-Liang Lin, and Shih-Kuei Lin Chapter 8. Investor Reactions to Major Events in the Global Financial Crisis in Europe and Asia-Pacific; Emre Bulut and Basak Tanyeri-Günsür Chapter 9. The Impacts of Institutional Shareholdings on Stock Price Informativeness, Stock Price Crash Risk, and Post-Crash Returns; De-Wai Chou, Pi-Hsia Hung, and Lin Lin Chapter 10. Firms, Context, and Bribery in a Transition Economy; Phan Anh Tu Chapter 11. Does National Culture Matter for Herding Behavior among Stock Market Investors?; Kwang-Jing Yii, Zi-Han Soh, Lin-Hui Chia, Khoo Shiang-Lin Jaslyn, Lok-Yew Chong, and Zi-Chong Fu Chapter 12. Intertemporal Decision: Do Financial Literacy and the Framing Effect Matter in the Malaysian Context?; Tze-Wei Ooi and Wee-Yeap Lau Chapter 13. Value relevance of accounting information and the moments of bias rate: Evidence from the IT companies in FTSE Taiwan 50; Chih-Chen Hsu, Kai-Chieh Chia, and Yu- Chieh Chang

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Dr. Cheng-Few Lee is Distinguished Professor of Finance at Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University, USA, where he was chairperson of the Department of Finance from 1988-1995. Professor Lee is also the founder of the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting in 1990 and the Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies in 1998. Dr. Min-Teh Yu is University Chair Professor at Providence University and National Tsing Hua University. He was President of Providence University and China University of Technology, and Dean of College of Management at Yuan Ze University and National Chiao Tung University. He has been associate editor and guest editor for Pacific Basin Finance Journal, Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, International Review of Economics and Finance, etc.