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Managing the Noodle Bowl: The Fragility of East Asian Regionalism

Baldwin, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The paper argues that East Asian regionalism is fragile since (i) each nation's industrial competitiveness depends on the smooth functioning of 'Factory Asia' - in particular on intra-regional trade; (ii) the unilateral tariff-cutting that created 'Factory Asia' is not subject to WTO discipline...

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Commercial Links Between Western Europe and East Asia: Retrospect and Prospects

Anderson, Kym; Francois, Joseph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

East Asia has rapidly become the third centre of gravity for global economic activity. North America is relatively well integrated with East Asia, but Europe is not. This paper explores the extent to which economic growth and trade policy developments over the next decade or so will strengthen...

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TFPG Controversies, Institutions, and Economic Performance in East Asia

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

The controversy over the appropriate partitioning of East Asian growth into accumulation versus technical change has overlooked a fundamental indeterminacy in measurement. As a result, we cannot rule out the possibility that East Asia has in fact experienced a tremendous amount of technological...

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Trade Strategy, Investment and Exports: Another Look at East Asia

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

The export booms in South Korea and Taiwan starting in the early 1960s are anomalous when compared with later export booms in other, non-East Asian countries such as Chile and Turkey. First, these booms have taken place in the context of comparatively small changes in relative prices in favour...

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Competition, Complementarity and Contagion in East Asia

Diwan, Ishac; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper explores to what extent the magnitude and speed of the contagion effects that materialized in East Asia in the second half of 1997 may have had "real" underpinnings, in the sense that the pattern of production, consumption and trade increased the vulnerability of East Asian countries...

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King Kong Meets Godzilla: The World Bank and The East Asian Miracle

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The World Bank's The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy makes official what East Asian specialists had long known: most of the high-performing Asian economies have had extensive government intervention, and some of these interventions, in the areas of credit and exports, have...

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What Happened to Asian Exports During the Crisis?

Duttagupta, Rupa; Spilimbergo, Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

After the large exchange rate depreciations following the 1997 East Asian crisis, export volumes from East Asian countries responded with a notable lag. Two main explanations for this lag have been proposed: that contraction in domestic credit affected supply of exports; and that ‘competitive...

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The Strategic Determinants of U.S. Human Rights Reporting: Evidence from the Cold War

Qian, Nancy; Yanagizawa-Drott, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper uses a country-level panel dataset to test the hypothesis that the United States biases its human rights reports of countries based on the latters’ strategic value. We use the difference between the U.S. State Department’s and Amnesty International’s reports as a measure of U.S....

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Political and Economic Institutions of China and Their Influences

Xu, Cheng-Gang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

China was the largest economy in the world before the end of the 19th century; then became one of the poorest countries … in the world in a few decades. Now China is returning to its historical past. To understand China’s development, and to … understand where and how far China will move forward, this paper examines how its institution functioning. …

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Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Domestic Competition, and Inflation: Evidence from the 2005/08 Revaluation of the Renminbi

Auer, Raphael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Import competition from China is pervasive in the sense that for many good categories, the competitive environment that …

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