Environmental, Social, and Governance Perspectives on Economic Development in Asia

William A. Barnett is the Oswald Distinguished Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Kansas, USA. He is also the Director of the Center for Financial Stability in New York City, Founder and First President of the Society for Economic Measurement, and editor of the Cambridge University Press journal, Macroeconomic Dynamics.Bruno S. Sergi is an instructor on the Economics of Emerging Markets and the Political Economy of Russia and China at Harvard University, and an Associate of the Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. He is the co-director of the Lab for Entrepreneurship and Development (LEAD), a social science research lab based in Cambridge, MA that aims to generate and share knowledge about entrepreneurship, development, and sustainability.

• Chapter 1. The Neo-Fisherianism to Escape Zero Lower Bound; Siddhartha Chattopadhyay Chapter 2. Do Machine Learning Models hold the key to better Money Demand Forecasting?; Taniya Ghosh and Sakshi Agarwal Chapter 3. The Role of Money in the Monetary Policy: A New Keynesian and New Monetarist Perspective; Masudul Hasan Adil, Neeraj R. Hatekar, and Taniya Ghosh Chapter 4. Return and Volatility Linkages between Bitcoin, Gold price and Oil price: Evidence from Diagonal BEKK-GARCH Model; Surachai Chancharat and Julaluk Butda Chapter 5. Sin Stock Proportion and Investment Manager Education Background in Indonesian Equity Funds; Taufik Faturohman, Karina Agri Widjaya, Yulianti, and Kurnia Fajar Afgani Chapter 6. Banking Development and Household Welfare in Thailand: Evidence from a Panel Survey; Kanokporn Intharak, Surachai Chancharat, and Jakkrich Jearviriyaboonya Chapter 7. Financial literacy: Does it improve well-being? A Case Study of Farmers in Khon Kaen, Thailand; Natchaya Thongrak, Surachai Chancharat, and Ploypailin Kijkasiwat Chapter 8. The Interlinkages and Diversification Opportunities among Emerging Bond Markets: BRIC and BRICS Comparison; Adefemi A. Obalade, Tsepang Moeti, Vijen Moodley, Yusuf Randeree, and Paul-Francois Muzindutsi Chapter 9. Inflation Volatility in Indonesia Using ARIMA Model: Before and During Covid-19; Setyo Tri Wahyudi, Rihana Sofie Nabella, and Kartika Sari Chapter 10. Education and Socialization Investment Galleries to Improve Capital Market Inclusion; Dito Rinaldo and Vina Anggilia Puspita Chapter 11. Relationship Between Income Smoothing and Earnings Announcement; Agustin Palupi