Handbook of Asian Finance
Financial Markets and Sovereign Wealth Funds

This comprehensive research collection probes the sources of Asian wealth and unique aspects of the infrastructure that supports them

David Lee Kuo Chuen (Edited by), Greg N. Gregoriou (Edited by)

9780128009826, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 14 July 2014

416 pages
23.4 x 19 x 2.7 cm, 1.02 kg

"The just published edited volume gives a broad insight into the Asian financial markets...The book provides many empirical results and is a good source of information for potential investors in the Asian region."
--Absolut Report, April 2014

"The Handbooks of Asian Finance provide expert insight and comprehensive analysis of some of the key issues in Asia’s financial markets and institutions. This is a highly recommended resource for business students, policy-makers, professionals, and industry practitioners."
--Stephen Riady, OUE Limited

"These Handbooks of Asian Finance offer an excellent overview of the problems and issues faced by regulators and financial institutions. They provide sufficiently robust analysis and useful practical insights over a wide range of subjects and should be of immense value to those who are interested in Asian finance especially in the East Asian economies."
--Lim Chee Onn, Singbridge Pte Ltd

"Lee and Gregoriou have put out a useful and topical guide on the rapidly evolving Asian financial landscape, post-crisis. Wide-ranging. In-depth. Practical."
--Raymond Lim, APS Asset Management and former Second Minister of Finance in Singapore

"Following the Asian financial crisis (1997-98), the Asian economies and financial sectors underwent a far-reaching restructuring and transformation. The much-needed Handbooks of Asian Finance are an attempt to deal with them in an in-depth manner. They cover all aspects of Asian financial markets, institutions and pan-Asian financial issues in a lucid and comprehensive way. I have no qualms in recommending them to interested undergraduate and graduate students."
--Dilip K. Das, Woosong University

"A coherent and comprehensive document embracing an impressive number of timely and topical issues on Asian Finance. A major handbook for students, professors and  professionals worldwide interested in the fast-growing Asian financial systems. Each section is written by highly qualified experts in their respective fields."
--Amine Tarazi, Université de Limoges

"The Handbooks of Asian Finance provide a clear and careful analysis of the issues concerning financial markets in Asia. They consitute a 'must' for practitionners, advanced students, and academic specialists in this field. Many thanks to the editors for this great job."
--Bertrand Candelon, Maastricht University

"The Handbooks of Asian Finance cover REITs, trading, fund performance, financial markets, and sovereign wealth funds. They are comprehensive and useful for both academics and practitioners who seek to improve their knowledge about finance in Asia."
--Cheng-Few Lee, Rutgers University

Asia's miraculous recovery from the 1997 crisis ushered in unexpected transformations to its economies and financial sectors. The reasons many Asian countries are growing above 6%, with double-digit growth for a year or two in-between, are investigated by this extensive research collection. The Handbook of Asian Finance covers the most interesting issues raised by these growth rates. From real estate prices and the effects of trading technologies for practitioners to tax evasion, market manipulation, and corporate governance issues, expert scholars analyze the ways that the region is performing. Offering broader and deeper coverage than other handbooks, the Handbook of Asian Finance explains what is going on in Asia today.

BANKING
1. Risk Ratings in Asian Banks.
Edward H.K. Ng
2. Private Wealth Management in Asia.
David R. Meyer
3. The Banking Networks of Asian Financial Centers. 
David R. Meyer
4. Dynamics of House Price and Bank Lending in Korea.
Heeho Kim and Saewoon Park
5. The Effect of Bank Mergers on Shareholder Value and Performance in Japan.
Heather Montgomery and Yuki Takahashi
6. A Regime-switching Analysis of Asian Bank Stocks.
Kin-Yip Ho, Yanlin Shi and Zhaoyong Zhang
7. Default Prediction with Automatically Predictor Selection on Southeast Asian Industry.
Wolfgang Karl Hardle and Dedy Dwi Prastyo
8. A Demand for International Reserve and Monetary Disequilibrium: Evidence from Emerging Asia

MARKET DEVELOPMENT AND GOVERNANCE ISSUES
9. Singapore’s Financial Markets: Challenges, Future and Prospects.
David Lee and Kok Fai Phoon
10. Wealth Management- A Comparison of Switzerland, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Francis Koh and Peggan Tan
11. Asian Market Reactions to US Macroeconomic News Surprises.
Helena Chulia and Natalia Valls
12. Monetary Policy in Taiwan: the Implications of Liquidity.
Logan Kelly, Jane Binner, Chia-Ling Chang, and Yi-Heng Tseng
13. Comparative Financial Development in Asia-Pacific since the Asia Crisis.
Kym Brown, Jonathan A. Batten, Michael Skully and Yen N. Nguyen
14. Does Asia Really Have Poorer Governance?: Evidence from International Variations in Self-Dealing Transparency.
Raj Aggarwal and John W. Goodell
15. Attitudes Toward Tax Evasion in Korea: A Study in Public Finance.
Robert W. McGee and Yeomin Yoon
16. Attitudes toward Accepting a Bribe: A Comparative Study of the Peoples’ Republic of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Robert W. McGee

SOVERIGN WEALTH FUNDS
17. The Emergence of Sovereign Wealth Funds in Asia.
Donghyun Park and Gemma Esther B. Estrada
18. China Investment Corporation: China’s Sovereign Wealth Fund.
Yuwei Hu
19. Portfolio Allocation Dynamics of China Investment Corporation in the Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2009.
Tayyeb Shabbir
20. Sovereign Wealth Funds in East Asia: An Update of their Recent Developments.
Kin-Yip Ho and Zhaoyong Zhang

Subject Areas: Finance [KFF], Development economics & emerging economies [KCM]