Selected Papers from the Asia-Pacific Conference on Economics & Finance (APEF 2016)

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Evaluation of Cluster-Development Strategic Outlooks Using Book Value and Revenue Multiples

   • Egor Koshelev, Sergey Yashin, Nadezhda Yashina

   Pages 1-18

3. Disposition Effect on Investment Decision Making: Explanation of Regulatory-Focus Theory

   • I Made Surya Negara Sudirman, Andry Irwanto, Basuki

   Pages 19-29

4. Prospects for the Mutual-Fund Industry in India: A Comparative Study with Respect to the US

   • Iftaqar Ahmad, Jyotsna Sinha

   Pages 31-37

5. Social-Marketing Activities to Augment Brands of Faith in Diversified Marketing in India

   • Perbettan Baba Gnanakumar

   Pages 39-52

6. Determinant Factors for the Formation and Development of a Smart Territory

   • Andra Zvirbule, Baiba Rivza, Zane Bulderberga

   Pages 53-62

7. Replacing Formal Authority in the Workplace with Employee Self-governing Authority

   • Juan Nicolás Montoya Monsalve, Álvaro Fernando Moncada Niño, Juan Daniel Montoya Naranjo

   Pages 63-76

8. A Study of the Human-Resource Practices and Challenges Confronted by Human-Resource Experts in an Indian IT Firm, Bangalore

   • Palaniappan Saravanan, Arumugam Vasumathi

   Pages 77-98

9. Current Issues of the Labor Market in the Slovak Republic with an Emphasis on the Trends in Migration Policy

   • Eva Rievajova, Andrej Privara

   Pages 99-106

10. Portion of Foreign Ownership and Efficiency of Banks in Indonesia

    • Sparta

    Pages 107-123

11. Study of Green Banking Practices in the Sri Lankan Context: A Critical Review

    • P. M. P. Fernando, K. S. D. Fernando

    Pages 125-143

This book features the best papers presented at the Asia-Pacific Conference on Economics & Finance in 2016. Chapters include research conducted by experts in the field of Economics, Finance and Business from the region. Put together by East Asia Research, East Asia Institute of Management & Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) , this book serves as a useful resource for educators, researchers, thought leaders, policy makers, and economists.

• Financial derivatives
• Mood Maintenance Hypothesis
• Speculative financial market
• Cluster development strategic outlooks
• Hofstede’s Culture Dimensions
• Employee Motivation
• Mutual Fund Industry
• Fiscal Policy and Indeterminacy
• Global competitiveness of ASEAN
• Consumption Dynamics in Inverse Demand Systems
• ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN THE BANKING INDUSTRY
• Capital management on firm profitability
• ERM implementation
• Theory of Sovereign Risk from the DSGE View
• Consumption Volatility in Emerging Countries
• Regression analysis on APEC digital piracy
• Employee Adaptive Behaviour
• Organizational Culture and Spirituality Workplace
• Green Residential Building Purchase
• Cross-Holdings in Oligopoly

• Faculty of Economics and Business, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak Faculty of Economics and Business, Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia

  Evan Lau

• East Asia Research Pte. Ltd , Singapore, Singapore

  Lee Ming Tan

• East Asia Institute of Management , Singapore, Singapore

  Jing Hee Tan

Evan Lau is a well-trained Universiti Putra Malaysia graduate with vast experience and research excellence covering the areas of International Economics with numerous applications of econometrics techniques. Recently he ventured into socioeconomic discipline including Economics of Crime and Suicide. He joined Faculty of Economics and Business Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) in 2005 soon after completing his Ph.D in 2004. He servicing as Associate Professor since June 2014 and the Managing Editor of International Journal of Business and Society (IJBS), an internationally refereed journal indexed in SCOPUS bibliographic database, Emerging Sources of Citation Index (ESCI), Malaysian Citation Centre (MCC), ProQuest publisher, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, Cabell’s Directories (Economics, Finance and Management) and EBSCO Host Publishing. He is the director of Centre of Excellence for Business, Economics and Finance Forecasting (BEFfore), UNIMAS which among other serves as a platform and reference point for business, economic and finance forecasting. He was the Visiting Scholar in Faculty of Economics in University of Cambridge from October 2013 – April 2014.
 
Mr. Lee-Ming is the founder of East Asia Research and he obtained his Master of Applied Finance from the University of Adelaide. He is  deeply interested in how humans function and react with each other. An insight into how people’s minds think and how they work together is invaluable in just about every field. Outside of work, he enjoys outdoor activities and occasional computer games.
 
Dr. Tan Jing Hee is an Executive Director of East Asia Institute of Management as well as the Chairman of its Academic Board. He has worked as a Retail Manager,  a Senior Science Master of a government secondary school, and as a Merchandising Manager of Robinsons Departmental Store, with responsibilities in its Menswear Division. In 1973, he joined the Singapore Institute of Management, eventually becoming its Chief Operating Officer.  In 1994, he wrote doctoral thesis on Developing a Factor Model of Management Work in Singapore, for which he was awarded his Ph.D. from Henley Management College/Brunel University.

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