Search Results - subject:"East Asia"

Carbon pricing potential in East and South Asia : jurisdiction factsheets and clusters : interim report

Doda, Baran; Hall, Maia; Krause, Emma; Kuneman, Ernst; … - Deutschland / Umweltbundesamt - 2022

The effectiveness of carbon pricing as a market-based policy tool with economy-wide transformation potential has increasingly rendered it the instrument of choice among policy makers responding to challenges posed by climate change. However, the potential for jurisdictions to introduce carbon...

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Swedish East India trade in a value-added analysis, c. 1730-1800

Rönnbäck, Klas; Müller, Leos - In: Scandinavian economic history review 70 (2022) 1, pp. 1-18

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Jamaica : selected issues

Internationaler Währungsfonds - 2022

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Reluctant US vs ambitious German direct investment in China : the tale of two strategies

Langhammer, Rolf J. - 2022

The author shows that the US as the world's largest investor abroad so far shuns the most dynamic host region East Asia …

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The Returns to Innovation in East Asia : The Role of the Business Environment and Firms' Characteristics

Chen, Pinyi; de Nicola, Francesca - 2022

The paper studies the relationship between innovation efforts, innovation outputs, and productivity, using firm-level data from six East Asian countries. Firms are more likely to invest in innovation when they use technology licensed by a foreign company, are part of a large group, and have a...

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Millet, rice, and isolation : origins and persistence of the world's most enduring mega-state

Kung, James Kai-sing; Özak, Ömer; Putterman, Louis G.; … - 2022

We propose and test empirically a theory describing the endogenous formation and persistence of mega-states, using China as an example. We suggest that the relative timing of the emergence of agricultural societies, and their distance from each other, set off a race between their autochthonous...

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Civil societies' reactions of East- and Southeast Asian countries to the Russian war on Ukraine : preliminary observations

Malitz, David Michael (ed.); Sriyai, Surachanee (ed.) - 2022

Undoubtedly, the war in Ukraine has far-reaching political and economic implications for many regions of the world, including East and Southeast Asia. The governments' reactions to the war have varied considerably ranging from fully supporting Ukraine in alliance with the United States and the...

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Accounting for Real Exchange Rate Changes in East Asia

Parsley, David C. - 2022

This study measures the proportion of real exchange rate movements that can be accounted for by movements in the relative price of non-traded goods using the framework employed by Engel (1999). Among the twenty-one bilateral Asian-Pacific real exchange rates considered here, that proportion is...

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Hong Kong, Singapore and the East Asian Crisis : How Important Were Trade Spillovers?

Rajan, Ramkishen S.; Sen, Rahul; Siregar, Reza - 2022

The literature on the East Asian crisis has concentrated almost exclusively on the five crisis-hit economies of Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines (Asia-5). Relatively scant attention has been paid to the twin cities of Hong Kong and Singapore, both of which also suffered...

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The Economic Cooperation Potential of East Asia's RCEP Agreement

Armstrong, Shiro Patrick; Drysdale, Peter - 2022

East Asia’s Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) came into force in 2022 as the world’s largest free … agreement with the ten member ASEAN group at its centre. It keeps markets open and updates trade and investment rules in East … Asia, a major centre of global economic activity, at a time of rising protectionism when the WTO itself is under threat …

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