PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Emerging Markets and Financial Resilience; Hooy Chee-Wooi, Ruhani Ali and S. Ghon Rhee PART II: FINANCIAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT AND BUSINESS CYCLE 2. Social Capital and Financial Market Development; Siong-Hook Law and Mansor Ibrahim 3. Resource Curses Finance: Can Human Stop It?; Tamat Sarmidi, Siong-Hook Law and Norlida Hanim Mohd Salleh 4. Forecasting Malaysian Business Cycle Movement; Shirly Siew-Ling Wong, Shazali Abu Mansor, Chin-Hong Puah and Venus Khim-Sen Liew PART III: REGIONAL FINANCIAL MARKET INTEGRATION 5. Financial Integration between China and Asia Pacific; Tze-Haw Chan and Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah 6. Budget Deficits and Current Account Balances; Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah, Siew-Voon Soon and Hamizun bin Ismail 7. Asia-Pacific Currency Excess Returns; Yuen-Meng Wong PART IV: FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS AND EQUITY INVESTMENTS 8. Openness, Market Size and Foreign Direct Investments; Catherine Soke-Fun Ho, Khairunnisa Amir, Linda Nasaruddin Sia and Nurain Farahana Zainal Abidin 9. Momentum and Contrarian Strategies on ASEAN markets; Shangkari V.Anusakumar, Ruhani Ali and Chee-Wooi Hooy 10. Socially Responsible Investing Funds in Asia Pacific; Wei-Rong Ang and Hooi-Hooi Lean PART V: CORPORATE FINANCE AND BANKING 11. Capital Structure of Southeast Asian Firms; Razali Haron, Khairunisah Ibrahim, Fauzias Mat Nor and Izani Ibrahim 12. Determinants Of Bank Profits and Net Interest Margins; Rubi Ahmad and Bola Matemilola

Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah, Putra University, Malaysia Bola Matemilola B.T., University of Malaya, Malaysia Catherine Soke-Fun Ho, MARA University of Technology, Malaysia Hooy Chee-Wooi, University of Science, Malaysia Chin-Hong Puah, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia Fauzias Mat Nor, The National University of Malaysia, Malaysia Hamizun bin Ismail, The National University of Malaysia, Malaysia Hooi-Hooi Lean, University of Science, Malaysia Izani Ibrahim, The National University of Malaysia, Malaysia Khairunisah Ibrahim, International Islamic University of Malaysia, Malaysia Khairunnisa Amir, MARA University of Technology, Malaysia Linda Nasaruddin Sia, MARA University of Technology, Malaysia Mansor Ibrahim, International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance Norlida Hanim Mohd Salleh, The National University of Malaysia, Malaysia Nurain Farahana Zainal Abidin, MARA University of Technology, Malaysia Razali Haron, International Islamic University of Malaysia, Malaysia Rubi Ahmad, University of Malaya, Malaysia Ruhani Ali, University of Science, Malaysia Shangkari V.Anusakumar, University of Science, Malaysia Shazali Abu Mansor, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia Siew-Ling Wong Shirly, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia Siew-Voon Soon, Putra University, Malaysia Siong-Hook Law, Putra University, Malaysia Tamat Sarmidi, The National University of Malaysia, Malaysia Tze-Haw Chan, University of Science, Malaysia Venus Khim-Sen Liew, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia Wei-Rong Ang, University of Science, Malaysia Yuen-Meng Wong, University of Malaya, Malaysia.