This study investigates the mean and volatility spillover effects of World oil prices on food prices for selected Asia and Pacific countries including Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India ...

This paper examines key factors influencing the accessibility of microcredit by rural households in China. The empirical approach is built upon logistic regression and data are collected through a household survey. A total ...

This study aims at identifying factors affecting formal credit constraint status of rural farm households in Vietnam’s North Central Coast region (NCC). Using the Direct Elicitation method (DEM), we consider both internal ...

Increases in house prices can lead to higher house price volatility, a significant determinant of default and the prepayment of housing loans (Miles, 2008). Many researchers believe that significant growth in house price ...

This study investigates the impacts of the Thailand-Australia Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) and Thailand-New Zealand Closer Economic Partnership (THNZCEP) on Thailand dairy import prices. The study employs an import price ...

This study evaluates equity mutual fund performance in the Chinese mutual funds industry by employing Goetzmann and Ibbotson’s (1994) method. The data set consists of all open-end equity mutual funds in China and is free ...

This study aims at identifying factors affecting formal credit constraint status of rural farm households in Vietnam’s North Central Coast region (NCC). Using the Direct Elicitation method (DEM), we consider both internal ...

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have been highly conducive to economic development in Vietnam. SMEs are a mean of income generation, job creation, poverty reduction, and government revenue contribution, etc. ...

This study investigates the impacts of the Thailand–Australia Free Trade Agreement and Thailand–New Zealand Closer Economic Partnership on Thailand’s dairy import prices. The study employs an import price model to examine ...

This paper assesses the volatility and cross country mean and volatility spillover effects of food prices within and across global and selected Asian and Pacific countries namely Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, ...