This paper attempts to examine the impact of an East Asia FTA on trade patterns in East Asia by using a multi … Asia FTA on GDP and welfare of member countries are generally positive, while the impacts on non-members are negative … sectors increase, reflecting a shift in incentives from domestic sales to export sales. Finally, an East Asia FTA will promote …

bonds issued by Asia-Pacific sovereigns, we find that local variables are significant in the dynamics of currency and credit …

economies. Although much of the discussion concentrates on East Asia and Mexico, I also draw on the history of some previous …

Asia during this century than in any other region or historical period. By introducing demographic variables into an … empirical model of economic growth, this essay shows that this transition has contributed substantially to East Asia's so …-called economic miracle. The 'miracle' occurred in part because East Asia's demographic transition resulted in its working …

in investment. This paper offers an argument and a formal model to suggest that exports in East Asia may have been driven …

This paper reaches seven conclusions regarding the Yen Bloc that Japan is reputed to be forming in Pacific Asia. (1 …) Gravity-model estimates of bilateral trade show that the level of trade in East Asia is biased intra-regionally, as it is … is no evidence of a special Japan effect. (3) Once one properly accounts for rapid growth in Asia, the statistics do not …

This paper characterizes the capital flows in Asia before and after the Asian currency crisis of 1997. Differences in …