Index

Advances in Pacific Basin Business Economics and Finance

ISBN: 978-1-78743-410-3, eISBN: 978-1-78743-409-7

ISSN: 2514-4650

Publication date: 15 September 2017

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(2017), "Index", Advances in Pacific Basin Business Economics and Finance (Advances in Pacific Basin Business, Economics and Finance, Vol. 5), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 203-212. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2514-465020170000001012

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INDEX

Abusive activities
, 7

Accounting fraud
, 103, 107, 117

Accounting profession, in China
, 104

Administrative burdens of proof
, 7

Administrative orders
, 4, 6

After-adjustment asset value
, 83

Agency-enforced balance-sheet restrictions
, 4

Allocation efficiency (AE)
, 177

Alternative capital standards
, 90–91

Alternative debt structures
, 97n10

American International Group (AIG)
, 3

bailout of
, 12

insolvency, roots of
, 7–10

profit and loss
, 9

subject to systemic-risk regulation
, 7

ARIMA process
, 48–49

AR Test
, 161–162

ASEAN + 2
, 191, 193–194

ASEAN + 3
, 192

Asia and Pacific region, IMF report on economic growth
, 190

Asian financial crisis
, 36

Asian markets
, 41–42, 68–69

Asset dynamics
, 80–81

Asset-liability (A/D) ratio
, 85

Asset-liability structure
, 85

Asset return, volatility of
, 86

Asset value adjustment mechanism
, 84

Asset value of bank

risk components
, 80

risk-neutralized
, 81

Audit market in China

average market share
, 102

empirical results

audit fees of auditors
, 113

market share of big4 vs. non-big4
, 111–112

financial independence
, 103

government intervention impact on

audit fees
, 106

audit market structure
, 105–106

incidence of accounting fraud
, 107

institutional background
, 104–105

logistic regression

results
, 116–118

testing
, 103

methodology to assess impact on audit fees
, 108–109

oligopolistic structure
, 102

quality of
, 103

regression results
, 115–116

sample selection and matching criteria
, 107–108

sensitivity analysis
, 113–114

services
, 102

Auditors in China

audit fees of
, 113

classification of
, 102

Balance sheet
, 2, 12, 34

incremental
, 13

risk
, 79

Banking system of China
, 28

Banks

asset value
, 84–85

capital regulation
, 82–83

credit allocation
, 36

failure resolutions
, 83

loan
, 37

excess demand for
, 36

market
, 29–33

see also Commercial loan market

long-term subdebt
, 83

return rates
, 28

risk-taking behavior
, 84–85, 96

subordinated debt
, 78

Basel Capital Accord
, 78, 83, 85

Basel Committee on Banking Supervision

2003
, 78, 83

2004
, 96n1

Basel III
, 16

Baseline (static) model
, 154–155

BCC model
, 177

Binary choice model
, 131

Binary probit estimation of employment probability

for foreign spouses
, 137–138

for native and foreign spouses
, 139

Blinder—Oaxaca decomposition approach
, 131

Bond insurance contract
, 8

Bond prices

for alternative capital standards
, 90

for alternative conditions
, 92

impact on housing prices
, 191–195, 198–199

Bonds domestic credit
, 194

Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) countries
, 41–42, 64, 66, 68–69, 175

Broadband network
, 178–179

Brokers, self protection by
, 14

Brownian diffusion
, 23

Business-conduct rules
, 6

Capital
, 6

accumulation
, 40

adequacy
, 60

asset pricing
, 31

market rate
, 34

positions
, 97n10

standards
, 79, 83–84

Capital forbearance
, 84–85

bond prices for alternative capital standards without
, 90

subdebt prices
, 89

Cash-market portfolio
, 13

CCR model
, 177

Central clearing party (CCP), expansion in role of
, 14

Chartering
, 6

Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE)
, 52

China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)
, 104, 107–108

Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CPA)
, 104

Cobb-Douglas specification
, 154

Collateral restriction
, 6

Commercial loan market
, 29

MLE of
, 35

Taiwan, price adjustment process in
, 33–36

Commercial loans
, 28

Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
, 14

Constant relative rate of risk aversion (CRRA)
, 19–20

Consumption growth process
, 19–20

Continuous-time asset pricing model
, 20

Contract(s)
, 16n3

between counterparties
, 12

insurance and reinsurance
, 3–4

nonperformance, risk of
, 7

performance
, 14

Contract-based national regulatory cultures
, 2

Conventional asset pricing model
, 20–23

Conventional infinite-horizon model
, 20

Corporate social responsibility (CSR).
, 176

Counterparty risk
, 13

Credit crunch
, 36

in banking industry
, 29

definition of
, 28

Credit default swaps (CDS)
, 8

Credit demand and supply
, 28

Credit rationing theory
, 28–29

Credit risk
, 80

Crisis management
, 7

Cross-border

agreements
, 2

marriages
, 122

Cross-guarantees
, 8

Cultural assimilation
, 123

Culture, definition of
, 5

Customers protection, against loss
, 4

Data envelopment analysis (DEA)
, 174–177, 186

input and output variables

definition of
, 174

selection and correlation of
, 178–179

Da Xin audit firm
, 102

Debt

returns
, 19

structure
, 85, 93–95

Decomposition analysis of employment probability
, 146–147

Deeply insolvent firm
, 7

Default risk
, 25

Delinquent borrowers, mistreatment of
, 7

Deposit dynamics
, 81–82

Deposit growth rate
, 93–95

Difficult-to-unwind (DTU) firm
, 15

systemic risk
, 2

taxpayer an equity investor
, 2

Digital TV
, 178–179

Disciplinary actions

Disclosure
, 6, 104, 114, 178

Disequilibrium

of credit demand
, 28

in credit market, types of
, 28

model of bank loan market
, 29–33

outcomes
, 28

Dividends
, 82–84

DMUs of Company, in Taiwan

before and after consolidation
, 186

first phase of consolidation, operational efficiency analysis

in 2006 and 2007
, 179–180

in 2006 and 2007∼2010
, 181

input and output variables, definition of
, 178

research subjects and data resource
, 177–178

second phase of consolidation, operational efficiency analysis

in 2007∼2010 and 2011
, 184–186

in 2010 and 2011
, 181–183

Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) of 2010
, 8, 14–15

Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC)

characteristics of
, 16

powers of
, 10

purpose of
, 2

toolkits and language of swaps regulation
, 13–14

Due-diligence expense
, 13

Dynamic equity
, 194

Dynamic model
, 156–159

Economic development (ED)
, 160

Economic growth process in urban sector
, 158

Economy of China

as dual economy
, 152, 154

economic reform policies
, 152

Education capital, investment rates of
, 158–159

Education investment inequality
, 154, 160–164, 166, 170–171

Emergency Economic Stabilization Act
, 10

Emerging markets
, 41

Employment assimilation
, 123

Employment probability in Taiwan
, 133

decomposition analysis of
, 146–147

foreign spouses
, 137–138

of immigrants and native-born workers
, 131

native and Chinese spouses
, 144

native and foreign spouses
, 139, 142

native and Southeast Asian spouses
, 143

Southeast Asian and Chinese spouses
, 140–141

Equity
, 19

financing
, 41

premium on claims on future deposits
, 25

price, impact on housing prices
, 191–195, 198–199

strips
, 24

European debt crisis in 2010
, 29

European sovereign risk (2009–2011) crisis
, 60

Eurozone banking sector
, 29

Exogenous variables
, 191

Fail-safe structure
, 14

Federal banking
, 7

Federal Insurance Office (FIO)
, 10–11

Federal Reserve
, 3

Female immigrants

arrival age, women working by
, 127–128

conceptual framework and empirical specifications
, 129–133

employment assimilation of
, 123

Financial institutions

bailouts
, 6–7

regulation of
, 4

Financial market

deregulation of
, 28

liberalization in
, 28

variables
, 191, 193

Financial products, protection for customers
, 4

Financial regulation

imbedded in bureaucratic machinery
, 6

over-riding task of
, 5

Financial regulators, prudential regulation imposition on
, 6

Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC)
, 5

Financial transactions
, 5

Fiscal expenditure (FE)
, 160–161

Foreign spouses in Taiwan

employment status of
, 126

characteristics and country of origin
, 130

decomposition analysis of employment probability
, 146–147

foreign spouses and native women, comparison between
, 145–146

SEA and MCH spouses, comparison between
, 133–145

female spouses from Southeast Asia and China
, 122–123

Foreign trade (FT)
, 160

FTSE 100 index
, 55

GDP
, 40–41

Global financial crisis in 2008
, 28–29, 37

Global imbalance
, 28

GMM method
, 191, 193–195, 198

Gold price, impact on housing prices
, 191–195, 198–199

Government-chartered financial intermediary
, 13

Government institutions
, 4

Granger causality test
, 63–64, 69

between stock returns and IPG
, 65–66

between stock return volatility and IPG
, 67–68

Guo Fu Hao Hua audit firm
, 102

Health capital, investment rates of
, 158–159

Health investment inequality
, 154, 160, 164, 170–171

Housing industry in Asia-Pacific region

asset market indicators, effects of
, 192–193

current account surplus (or deficit) and, relationship between
, 192

housing prices and bank loans, interrelationship in Hong Kong
, 191–192

influenced by taxation and land use regulations
, 190

macroeconomic variables, impact of
, 191

monetary authority arrangement
, 190

portfolio diversification during economic crisis
, 192–193

rise in prices
, 190

equity prices
, 195, 199

gold price influence on
, 195, 198

role played by
, 192

vs developed economies
, 190

Housing prices model
, 194

Human capital investment in China
, 170

components of
, 153, 155

equilibrium analysis
, 157–159

cross-country analysis
, 153

depreciation rates of
, 157–158

different stages
, 167–170

empirical implementation

econometric model
, 160

equilibrium analysis of
, 156–159

functions of
, 155

investment rates of
, 157

trends of
, 167

urban-rural income gap, impact on
, 152

Human capital theory
, 129

Immigrants

earnings of workers
, 122

integration in US and UK
, 122

labor force participation rate of
, 123

labor market performance
, 122

Immigrants in Taiwan

employment status of marriage
, 123–129

foreign spouses

reasons for marriage
, 122

through marriage
, 122

Impulse response function
, 196

Incentive conflict
, 3

Industrial production growth (IPG)
, 52

for Asian markets
, 48

for BRICS markets
, 47

downside risk in examination of
, 60

in emerging markets
, 43–45

estimation of

predicted by stock market growth and VIX
, 58–59

predicted by stock returns and VaR
, 61–62

predicted by stock returns and VIX
, 56–57

feedback to stock market
, 63–66

highest during recession period
, 63

robustness test of stock market value growth
, 53–54

for Scandinavia markets
, 46

time series model on, estimation of
, 51

Input variables

definition of
, 178

selection and correlation of
, 178–179

Instantaneous interest rate
, 80

Insurance products, regulation of
, 10–12

Interest rates
, 80, 82, 85

dynamics of
, 81

impact of rise in
, 28

initial spot
, 87

term structure of
, 97n10

Intertemporal budget
, 25

Intragovernmental checks and balances
, 7

Investors
, 26n, 5, 60

Japanese Nikkei index
, 69n6

Japan Railway Company, privatization of
, 175

Japan stock market

integration of
, 193

long-run depression in
, 49

Jing Du Tian Hua audit firm
, 102

Joint-audit
, 105

Jurisdictional migration
, 5

Labor market assimilation hypothesis
, 122, 131

Licensing
, 6

Liquidity requirements
, 6

Li Xin audit firm
, 102

Li Xin Da Hua audit firm
, 102

Loan market

disequilibrium model of
, 29–33

MLE of Commercial
, 35

supply and demand of
, 28

Lobbying activity
, 5

Local big auditors, in China
, 102–105

Local small (remained) auditors, in China
, 102

Mainland China (MCH) spouses
, 133–147

Margin restriction
, 6

Market discipline
, 78

in subdebt market
, 79

Market return
, 41–42

Market value
, 21, 25, 41–42, 52, 55, 63

Maturities of subdebt
, 85

Maturity-specific equity premium model
, 24–25, 26n4

Maximum likelihood estimator (MLE)
, 32–33

of commercial loan market
, 35

McCarran-Ferguson Act of 1945
, 10

Mehra and Prescott model equity
, 21, 23

Migration capital, investment rates of
, 158–159

Migration investment inequality
, 153–155, 160, 162, 170–171

Ministry of Finance (MOF), China
, 102, 104–105, 110

Mobile phone industry in Taiwan, liberated in 1997
, 174

Monte Carlo method
, 85

Moral hazard
, 84–85, 90

MRW Model
, 154

Multi-period subdebt
, 83–85

National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC)

accreditation process
, 12

characteristics of
, 11

commissioner-members
, 12

developed and promulgated new standards
, 12

establishment of
, 11

federal officials influence on decision making of
, 11

goals of
, 11

National regulatory systems
, 2

Native-born working-age population
, 122

Native women in Taiwan
, 145–146

Near-bank-run event
, 36

Negotiating
, 13

Net growth rate of deposits
, 85

Nonagricultural development (NAD)
, 160

Non-State Owned Enterprises (NSOEs)
, 103

Notional principal amount
, 13

Office of Financial Research (OFR)

focus on systemic risk detection
, 3

task of
, 3

Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS)
, 3, 8, 10

One-party government
, 6

One-period subdebt
, 82–83

On-site examinations
, 4

Ordinary least square (OLS) regression
, 108

Organizational consolidation
, 176, 186

Out-of-sample forecasting ability
, 63

Output variables

definition of
, 178

selection and correlation of
, 178–179

Partial adjustment models
, 29

Payoffs of subdebt at maturity
, 83

Performance risk
, 5

Physical capital

depreciation rates of
, 157

investment rates of
, 157

Postcontract enforcement
, 13

Precontract shopping
, 13

Predatory lending
, 7

Private watchdogs
, 4–5

Probability of default (PD)
, 78

Probit decomposition of employment probability
, 148

native and Chinese spouses
, 144

native and foreign spouses
, 142

native and Southeast Asian spouses
, 143

Southeast Asian and Chinese spouses
, 140–141

Probit model
, 131–132

Prompt Correction Action (PCA)
, 78, 83–84, 87–90, 96

Protection selling
, 4–5

Prudential Insurance
, 7

Prudent savers
, 13

Pure rate of time preference
, 20

Pure technical efficiency (PTE)
, 174, 177, 181

Registration procedures
, 6

Regulatory

compliance
, 6

languages
, 4

machinery
, 5–7

norms
, 5–7

toolkits
, 6

tools
, 6

Regulatory culture, concept of
, 4–5

characteristics of
, 5

components of
, 6

definition of
, 5

Relative rate of risk aversion
, 20, 22

Reorganization
, 83–84

for business managers
, 174

and privatization, correlation between
, 175

Representative agent
, 20

Risk-adjusted assets
, 84

Risk-averse behavior
, 60

Risk aversion
, 20

Risk-free real interest rate
, 21

Risk management
, 7

Risk-neutralization
, 81

Risk-neutral pricing
, 81

Risk-return choice
, 40

Risk-spread relation
, 96

Risk-weighted assets (RWA)
, 78

RMB business
, 28

Robustness test, of stock market value growth on IPG
, 53–54

Root mean square errors (RMSE)
, 63

Safety-net

abuse
, 15

guarantees
, 15

subsidies
, 3–4

Sargan Test
, 161, 194

Saving glut
, 28, 37

Scale efficiency (SE)
, 174, 177

Securities execution facilities (SEFs)
, 14

Senior creditors
, 78

Sinofin Economic and Financial Databases
, 108

Small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
, 29

Social norms, agency disciplinary tactics
, 7

Solow model
, 154

Southeast (SEA) spouses
, 133–147

State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs)
, 103, 105

Stock market(s)

capitalization ratio
, 69n3

channeling savings into investments
, 40

comovement behavior of
, 69n5

flows of fund mechanisms
, 40

global financial crisis 2008-09 impact on
, 45–46

IPG feedback to
, 63–66

negative effect of
, 52–55

partially integrated in China
, 193

performance
, 40

data description
, 42

in emerging markets
, 41

empirical evidence
, 49–52

projections based on market functions
, 40

robustness test of
, 53–54

value of trading
, 40

variable
, 41

volatility of
, 40–41

in German market
, 55

impact on advanced markets
, 55

Stock returns
, 41

calculation of
, 42

in emerging markets, statistics of
, 42–44

estimation of
, 51

Granger causality test
, 65–66

volatility
, 63

Stocks prices indices

for Asian markets
, 48

for BRICS markets
, 47

for G6 markets
, 45

for Scandinavia markets
, 46

Stress tests
, 6

Subdebt / Subdebt holders

CDS spreads on
, 78

deposit insurance subsidy, reduction in
, 79

disciplining role of
, 79

issuance
, 78

junior status of
, 78

mandatory issuance
, 78

model for pricing

asset dynamics
, 80–81

deposit dynamics
, 81–82

numerical analysis, parameter values
, 85–87

prices under
, 87–90

forbearance
, 90–93

PCA
, 87–90

pricing

multi-period subdebt
, 83–85

one-period subdebt
, 82–83

proponents of
, 78

rise of bank risk
, 78

supplementary information to supervisors
, 78

zero-coupon bonds
, 80

Subdebt-to-equity ratio
, 95

Subordinated

debentures
, 78

holders
, 78

Supervisory Capital Assessment Program
, 78

Survey of Foreign and Mainland Spouses’ Life Status (2003)
, 122–123, 131, 147

SVAR model
, 193–195, 198–199

Swap(s)
, 7

agreement
, 12

arranged with third-party dealer or market-maker
, 13

contracts
, 2, 4, 13

definition of
, 12–13

exchange cash flows between parties
, 12

financially engineered substitutes
, 13

regulation of
, 12–14

Swap data repositories (SDRs)
, 14

Symmetric market risk
, 60

System generalized methods of moments (System GMM) method
, 161–162, 164, 167

Systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs)
, 16

Systemic-risk

efforts to control
, 15–16

regulation
, 7

regulators
, 4

Taiwan

credit market
, 29

facing risk of China banking system
, 28

price adjustment process in commercial loan market
, 33–36

Taiwan Economic Journal (TEJ) database
, 108

Taiwan Strait tension in 1996
, 36

Technical efficiency (TE)
, 174, 177, 181

Telecommunication business / companies
, 174

operational efficiencies / performance
, 175–176

production efficiency of
, 175–176

Tenor, definition of
, 12

Theft by safety net
, 15

Tian Jian audit firm
, 102

TIM mobile company
, 175

Traditional family labor supply model
, 129, 148n2

Transactions costs, types of
, 13

Transactions to market valuation (TRMV)
, 69n3

Two-stage least squares (2SLS) method
, 32, 36–37

Uncertain mean growth rate
, 23–24

Urbanization (UR)
, 160–161

Urban-rural human capital accumulation gap
, 152

Urban-rural income gap in China
, 155, 171

absolute convergence
, 152

descriptive statistics of variables
, 162

dynamic panel data model, estimation of
, 160

educational difference affecting
, 153

empirical model
, 160

empirical results

in different periods
, 166–170

at national level
, 161–164

at regional level
, 164–166

equilibrium

analysis of
, 156–159

wages
, 159

human capital investment role in
, 152–154

immigration of rural labor force
, 153

migration investment, increase in
, 162

regression results at national level
, 163

rural human capital spillover, widening of
, 153

variables and data, measurement of
, 160–161

Urban-rural resource allocation
, 153

US bank regulation, principal tools of
, 4

U-shape hypothesis
, 152

U.S. subprime crisis (2007_2009)
, 60

U.S. telecommunications companies, CSR implementation in
, 176

Value-at-risk (VaR)
, 60, 69

Variance decomposition (VDC)
, 195, 197–199

VIVO
, 175

Wealth-management services
, 4

Wiener process
, 81

Women’s Marriage, Fertility and Employment Survey (2003)
, 123, 131, 147

WTO
, 105

Xin Yong Zhong He audit firm
, 102

YSM variable
, 144–145

Zero-coupon bonds
, 80

Zhong Rui Yue Hua audit firm
, 102