Asia pacific financial markets in comparative perspective : issues and implications for the 21st century / Jonathan A. Batten, Thomas A. Fetherston -- Financial links and contagion in the 1997 Asian currency crisis : an empirical examination / Bang Nam Jeon -- Tangible and intangible non-current assets : evidence of information content during economic crisis period / Zaleha Abdul Shukor, Hamezah Md Nor, Muhd Kamil Ibrahim, Jagjit Kaur -- Return and volatility spillovers from developed to emerging capital markets : the case of South Asia / Yun Wang, Abeyratna Gunasekarage, David M. Power -- A note on the equilibrium relationships between issuers in the Asia pacific region / jonathan A. Batten, Thomas A. Fetherston, Pongsak Hoontrakul -- Country and sector effects in Asia pacific markets / Jianguo Chen, Yang Zhang, Ben R. Marshall -- US, European and Asian investors in the Japanese stock market / Akiko Kamesaka -- The options holding concentration problem : evidence from Australian listed corporations / Tyrone M. Carlin, Guy Ford -- Loss aversion asset pricing model performance : empirical evidence from five pacific-basin countries / David Ng, Mehdi Sadeghi -- A special and undervalued stock market in Taiwan / Yao-Chun Tsao, Wen-Kuei Chen -- The role of the Japanese yen in Asian exchange rate determination / Colm Kearney, Cal Muckley -- The derivation, development, and effects of financial reform in 10 countries of Eastern Asia : comparisons between pre- and post-Asia financial crisis / Shu-Ling Lin -- Developing a financial derivatives market in China / Jing Chi, Martin Young -- Encouraging growth in Asia with multi-pillar financial systems / Mukund Narayanamurti, Jonathan A. Batten -- A perspective on Japan's corporate bond market / Peter G. Szilagyi -- Corporate governance and social responsibility : combating money laundering in the Asia pacific region / Bonnie Buchanan -- A test of the response to a monetary policy regime change in New Zealand / David Tripe, John McDermott, Ben Petro -- The prospects of a regional monetary institution for the Asia Pacific / Justin W. Iu -- Does statistical dependence matter? Evidence from the USD/AUD / Craig A. Ellis -- International financial integration : an empirical investigation into Asian equity markets pre- and post-1997 Asian financial crisis / Xuan Vinh Vo, Kevin James Daly.

The goal of the volume is to provide some background on the various financial market segments of the Asian Pacific region. An understanding of institutional detail (size and scope) of the relevant markets affords a view that lends or detracts from the credibility of intermarket comparisons. An exposure and understanding of institutional detail supplies information that may bear on the statistical results of the empirical analysis. The vital roles played bycapital markets of pricing capital, issuing new shares, providing a liquidity-creating secondary feature, serving as a vehicle for asset transfer, and providing a linkage to international capital markets are as important to emerging markets as to developed countries.

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