Productivity and economic performance in the Asia-Pacific region

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Following on from their previous book Economic Efficiency and Productivity Growth in the Asia-Pacific Region, the authors in this volume analyse the economic performance of many of the major economies in the Asia-Pacific region including Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Korea, Indonesia, Hong Kong, China and Japan. They examine economic and productivity growth, competitiveness and efficiency developments in the region.

An introductory essay by the editors surveys recent economic developments in the region whilst introducing and cohesively integrating the chapters that follow. The studies employ a variety of modern analytical constructs and empirical techniques of open economy growth accounting as well as the measurement of productivity change, technical change and economic efficiency. A number of the chapters examine the entire region while others focus exclusively on a nation or industry. Several chapters study the causes and consequences of the financial crises in the region in 1997 from a recent historical perspective.

This book will be of special interest to scholars of economic growth and its determinants as well as all those interested in Asian studies.

Author Notes

Edited by Tsu-Tan Fu, Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, Cliff J. Huang, Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Vanderbilt University, US and C.A. Knox Lovell, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia

Tsu-Tan Fu and Cliff J. Huang and C.A. Knox LovellWilliam C. Hunter and David MarshallClifford D. Clark and Jung-Chao LiuJames H. GapinskiD.S. Prasada Rao and Tim J. CoelliChi SchivePei-chien Lin and Terry L. RoeRay Chou and Iftekhar Hasan and Ana Lozano-Vivas and Chung-Hua ShenYung-Ho Chiu and Jin-Li Hu and Yang LiTsu-Tan Fu and Chung-Huang HuangKulaya Thanapura and Ping WangAlice ShiuKevin J. FoxAshish Lall and Randolph G.K. Tan and Melvyn C.H. TanJeong-Dong Lee and Tai-Yoo Kim and Jongsu LeeYangseon Kim and Peter SchmidtJonathan E. Leightner and Ila M. Semenick Alam

List of Contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. xi
In Memoriam	p. xiii
1. Editors' introduction	p. 1
Part I Regional Studies
2. Systemic risk and central banking: a review of some recent developments	p. 17
3. The media, the judiciary, the banks and the resilience of East Asian economies	p. 42
4. Crisis, productivity and competitiveness in the Asia-Pacific region	p. 70
5. Economic performance of selected Asian countries in an international perspective: economic growth, productivity and inequality	p. 100
Part II Taiwan
6. Economic efficiency and the Taiwan economy: 1986-96	p. 139
7. The contribution of technological progress to aggregate and sectoral production of the Taiwanese economy	p. 161
8. Deregulation and efficiency of Taiwanese banks	p. 184
9. Cost inefficiency of Taiwan's mixed enterprises	p. 208
10. Efficiency measurement and multi-output pricing of waste water treatment in Taiwan	p. 229
Part III Other Countries in the Region
11. Human capital investment, labor productivity and output growth: the case of Thailand	p. 255
12. GDP growth in post-reform China	p. 293
13. The output gap and growth in Japan	p. 321
14. Profitability and productivity growth in Singapore manufacturing industries	p. 345
15. Productivity analysis and policy implication for structural reform of vertically integrated electric utility in Korea	p. 365
16. An empirical comparison of Bayesian and classical estimates of technical efficiencies of Indonesian rice farms	p. 390
17. Financial crisis hypotheses and the productivity of Thailand's financial institutions	p. 410
Index	p. 433

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