Regional Economic Integration in East Asia: Progress and Pathways [PDF]
, 2011 The East Asian region is a major global economic player, given its economic size and potential. As such, Regional Economic Integration in East Asia could be considered as an important building bloc toward integration of the Asia-Pacific region. East Asia
Balboa, Jenny D., Medalla, Erlinda M.
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Does ASEAN Freer Trade Benefit Malaysia? [PDF]
This paper examines the impact of intra-ASEAN trade liberalization (AFTA) using a multi-country, computable general equilibrium model (GTAP Model) with special focus on Malaysia.
Othman, Jamal, Yaghoob, Jafari
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A New Multi-Dimensional Framework for Analyzing Regional Integration: Regional Integration Evaluation (RIE) Methodology [PDF]
Theories of regional integration typically analyze the regional integration process from the perspective of a single discipline, usually economics. However, such one-dimensional analytical frameworks cannot fully capture the richness and complexity of ...
Park, Donghyun +1 more
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The Building Block versus Stumbling Block Debate of Regionalism: From the Perspective of Service Trade Liberalization in Asia [PDF]
When debating the pros and cons of economic regionalism, haven't we focused enough on trade in goods at the expense of services? This article argues that regionalism is certainly a building block, not a stumbling block to a multilateral trading system ...
Hamanaka, Shintaro
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Re-considering Asian Financial Regionalism in the 1990s [PDF]
A common view holds that the trend toward Asian financial regionalism is a relatively new phenomenon that became significant after the Asian financial crisis of 1997/98.
Hamanaka, Shintaro
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Asia’s Strategic Participation in the Group of 20 for Global Economic Governance Reform: From the Perspective of International Trade [PDF]
After considering the background to the G20 summit meetings after the recent global economic and financial crisis, this paper aims to identify the trade agenda that represents Asia’s concerns for the global and regional trading system.
Bark, Taeho, Kang, Moonsung
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What Drives Different Types of Capital Flows and Their Volatilities in Developing Asia? [PDF]
Understanding the determinants of capital inflows is essential to designing an effective policy framework to manage volatile capital flows and their disruptive potential. This paper aims to identify factors that explain the size and volatility of various
Mercado, Rogelio, Park, Cyn-Young
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Regional Economic Impacts of Cross-Border Infrastructure: A General Equilibrium Application to Thailand and Lao PDR [PDF]
A general equilibrium framework is used in this paper to study the regional economic effects of infrastructure improvements designed to reduce the costs of cross-border inter-regional trade.
Menon, Jayant +2 more
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ASEAN-5 Macroeconomic Forecasting Using a GVAR Model [PDF]
This paper examines and evaluates macroeconomic forecasts for the original ASEAN-5 members in the context of a global vector autoregressive (GVAR) model covering 20 countries, grouped into nine countries/regions.
Han, Fei, Hee Ng, Thiam
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