2003 Publications

Books

Freeman, J., & Shi, H. (2003). The 2020 Project: Policy Support in the People’s Republic of China. Manila, Philippines: Asian Development Bank.(download and hardcopy ordering information)

Ng, S. (2003). Efficiency, Equality, and Public Policy with a Case for Higher Public Spending (in Chinese). Beijing: Social Science Documentation Publishing House.

Ng, Y.-K., Shi, H., & Sun, G.-Z. (Eds.). (2003). The Economics of E-Commerce and Networking Decisions: Applications and Extensions of Inframarginal Analysis. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (details and ordering information)

Yang, X. (2003). Economic Development and the Division of Labor. Malden, MA: Blackwell. (details and ordering information)

Book Chapters

Ng, Y.-K. (2003). Entrepreneurship and globalization. In The Tan Kah Kee Spirit of Today (pp. 99-118). Singapore: Global Publishing Co..

Ng, Y.-K. (2003). Inframarginal versus marginal analysis of networking decision and E-commerce. In Y.-K. Ng, H. Shi & G.-Z. Sun (Eds.), The Economics of E-Commerce and Networking Decisions – Applications and Extensions of Inframarginal Analysis (pp. 11-23). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.(details and ordering information)

Ng, Y.-K. (2003). Introduction. In Y.-K. Ng, H. Shi & G.-Z. Sun (Eds.), The Economics of E-Commerce and Networking Decisions – Applications and Extensions of Inframarginal Analysis (pp. 1-7). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.(details and ordering information)

Ng, Y.-K. (2003). The benefits and costs of globalization (In Chinese). In L. K. Hin (Ed.), The 7th World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention, The Association of Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Malaysia (pp. 291-295).

Ng, Y.-K. (2003). The economics of E-commerce and networking decisions applications and extension of inframarginal analysis: Introduction. In Y.-K. Ng, H. Shi & G.-Z. Sun (Eds.), The Economics of E-Commerce and Networking Decisions - Applications and Extensions of Inframarginal Analysis (pp. 1-7). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.(details and ordering information)

Ng, Y.-K. (2003). The principle of happiness – Preface. In H. Chen (Ed.), The Principle of Happiness (pp. 1-3). Beijing: Economic Science Publishers.

Rivers, G. (2003). An indirect approach to the idnetification and measurement of transaction costs. In Y.-K. Ng, H. Shi & G.-Z. Sun (Eds.), The Economics of E-Commerce and Networking Decisions – Applications and Extensions of Inframarginal Analysis (pp. 267-297). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.(details and ordering information)

Shi, H., & Mathysen, H. (2003). E-commerce, transaction cost, and the network of division of labour: A business perspective. In Y.-K. Ng, H. Shi & G.-Z. Sun (Eds.), The Economics of E-Commerce and Networking Decisions – Applications and Extensions of Inframarginal Analysis (pp. 55-68). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.(details and ordering information)

Sun, G.-Z. (2003). Identification of equilibrium structures of endogenous specialization: A unified approach exemplified. In Y.-K. Ng, H. Shi & G.-Z. Sun (Eds.), The Economics of E-Commerce and Networking Decisions – Applications and Extensions of Inframarginal Analysis (pp. 195-213). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.(details and ordering information)

Sun, G.-Z., Yang, X., & Shuntian, Y. (2003). Towards a theory of impersonal networking decisions and endogenous structure of the division of labour. In Y.-K. Ng, H. Shi & G.-Z. Sun (Eds.), The Economics of E-Commerce and Networking Decisions – Applications and Extensions of Inframarginal Analysis (pp. 171-194). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.(details and ordering information)

Yang, X. (2003). An equilibrium model of hierarchy In Y.-K. Ng, H. Shi & G.-Z. Sun (Eds.), The Economics of E-Commerce and Networking Decisions – Applications and Extensions of Inframarginal Analysis (pp. 69-100). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.(details and ordering information)

Yang, X. (2003). A review of the literature of inframarginal analysis of network of division of labour In Y.-K. Ng, H. Shi & G.-Z. Sun (Eds.), The Economics of E-Commerce and Networking Decisions – Applications and Extensions of Inframarginal Analysis (pp. 24-52). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.(details and ordering information)

Yang, X. (2003). Towards a theory of impersonal networking decisions and endogenous structure of the divisionof labour In Y.-K. Ng, H. Shi & G.-Z. Sun (Eds.), The Economics of E-Commerce and Networking Decisions – Applications and Extensions of Inframarginal Analysis (pp. 171-194). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.(details and ordering information)

Yang, X., & Zhao, Y. (2003). Endogenous transaction costs and division of labour. In Y.-K. Ng, H. Shi & G.-Z. Sun (Eds.), The Economics of E-Commerce and Networking Decisions – Applications and Extensions of Inframarginal Analysis (pp. 311-327). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.(details and ordering information)

Refereed Journal Articles

Dogan, E., & Fausten, D. K. (2003). Productivity and technical change in Malaysian banking: 1989-1998. Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, 10, 205-237. (download)

Ng, Y.-K. (2003). Appropriate discounting of future utilities need not be the dictatorship of the present: A note on Chichilnisky. Social Choice and Welfare, 21(1), 113-116. (download)

Ng, Y.-K. (2003). From preference to happiness: Towards a more complete welfare economics. Social Choice and Welfare, 20(2), 307-350. (download)

Ng, Y.-K. (2003). Orthodox economics and economist: Strengths and weaknesses. The Singapore Economic Review, 48(1), 81-94. (download)

Ng, Y.-K., & Liu, P.-T. (2003). Global environmental protection: solving the international public-good problem by empowering the United Nations through cooperation with WTO. International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, 3(4), 409-417. (download)

Ng, Y.-K., & Ng, S. (2003). Do the economics of specialization justify the work ethics? An examinationof Buchanan’s hypothesis. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 50(3), 339-353. (download)

Ng, Y.-K., & Sun, G.-Z. (2003). Exclusion of self evaluations in peer ratings: An impossibility and some proposals. Social Choice and Welfare, 20(3), 443-456. (download)

Ng, Y.-K., & Yeh, Y.-N. (2003). Comparative statics without total differentiation of the first-order conditions. Economics Letters, 78(2), 161-166. (download)

Sun, G.-Z., & Lio, M. (2003). The division of labour and roundabout production: Allyn Young revisited. Pacific Economic Review, 8 (3), 219-238. (download)

Tombazos, C. (2003). New light on the ‘Impressionistic View’ of the balancing item in Australia's balance of payments accounts. Applied Economics, 35(12), 1369-1378. (download)

Tombazos, C. (2003). A production theory approach to the imports and wage inequality nexus. Economic Inquiry, 41(1), 42-61. (download)

Tombazos, C. (2003). Unprotective tariffs, ineffective liberalization and other mysteries: An investigation of the endogenous dimensions of trade policy formation in Australia. Southern Economic Journal, 70(1), 49-74. (download)

Tombazos, C., & Parasnis, J. (2003). On applications of duality to the study of immigration. Economic Papers, 22(1), 46-57. (download)

Wills, I. (2003). Informational barriers to pollution reduction in small businesses Economic Papers, 22(2), 84-94. (download)

Yang, X., & Zhang, D. (2003). Economic development, international trade, and income distribution. Journal of Economics, 78(2), 163-190. (download)