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Australia-Thailand Trade: Has the FTA Made a Difference?

Athukorala, Prema-chandra; Kohpaiboon, Archanun - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

This paper examines the impact of the Australia-Thailand free trade agreement (TAFTA) on bilateral trade between the two countries, paying attention to the implications of rules of origins (RoO) and the utilization of tariff preferences. It is found that trade has expanded faster following TAFTA...

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Can FTAs Support the Growth or Spread of International Production Networks in Asia?

Menon, Jayant - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

Free trade agreements (FTAs) have been proliferating in Asia for more than a decade. International fragmentation of production and the resultant cross-border production networks have been growing for a much longer period. Although FTAs are not necessary for the formation of production networks,...

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Transition to a Market Economy and Export Performance in Vietnam

Athukorala, Prema-chandra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009

This paper examines Vietnam’s export performance in the process of economic transition. The key theme of analysis is the complementary role of domestic policy shifts and the ongoing changes in world trade patterns in determining trends and patterns of exports. The analysis yields clear...

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Sri Lanka's Trade Policies: Back to Protectionism

Pursell, Garry; Ahsan, F.M. Ziaul - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

In 1977 Sri Lanka was the first of the South Asian countries to decisively move away from the protectionist import-substitution trade policies that for many years had damaged their economic efficiency and hobbled their economic growth. Albeit with back-tracking episodes, Sri Lanka's liberalising...

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Global production sharing and trade patterns in East Asia

Athukorala, Prema-chandra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

This paper analyzes trade patterns in East Asia, with special reference to the implications of the development of global production sharing. It examines the nature and extent of global production sharing and the role of East Asian countries within global production networks. It also highlights...

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'By a Silken Thread': regional banking integration and pathways to financial development in Japan's Great Recession

Hoffmann, Mathias; Okubo, Toshihiro - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

Regional differences in banking integration determined how Japan's Great Recession after 1990 spread across the country. We explain these differences with the emergence of silk reeling as the main export industry after Japan's opening to trade in the 19th century. The silk-exporting prefectures...

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Determinants of risk sharing through remittances: cross-country evidence

Balli, Faruk; Rana, Faisal - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

risk sharing. Using a large sample of 86 developing countries for the period 1990–2010, we establish that remittance … inflows serve as an important channel through which risk sharing takes place in the developing world. Although the extent of … risk sharing on average stands at 3.3%, there is substantial cross-country variation found in our sample, ranging from 38 …

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Understanding Long-run Price Dispersion

Crucini, Mario J.; Yilmazkuday, Hakan - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

We use a unique panel of retail prices spanning 123 cities in 79 countries from 1990 to 2005, to uncover six novel properties of long-run international price dispersion. First, at the PPP level, virtually all (91.6%) of price dispersion is attributed to service-sector wages, consistent with a...

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Could the proposed WTO Special Safeguard Mechanism protect farmers from low international prices?

Thennakoon, Jayanthi; Anderson, Kym - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

This paper offers an empirical analysis of the proposal by some developing countries for an agricultural Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM) in the World Trade Organization. It draws on political economy and market theory to demonstrate that the loss-averting domestic producer benefits that...

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Promoting Domestic Reforms Through Regionalism

Dee, Philippa - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

There is a strong presumption among economists that domestic reforms are promoted by regionalism. Yet strong empirical evidence for this proposition is lacking. The purpose of the paper is to examine in some detail both the theoretical arguments and empirical evidence on this issue, drawing on...

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