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Asian Economic Integration ASEAN+3+1 or ASEAN+1s?
Batra, Amita - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
In this paper an attempt is made to evaluate the most efficient approach to regional economic integration in Asia. For … the purpose, Asia is defined as inclusive of ASEAN, the plus three economies of China, Japan, Korea and India that is the … ASEAN plus four. Given that ASEAN is an existing regional bloc in Asia, alternative approaches to the alignment of the plus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365146
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Asia-Latin America Free Trade Agreements : An Instrument for Inter-Regional Liberalization and Integration?
Wignaraja, Ganeshan; Ramizo, Dorothea; Burmeister, Luca - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
Trade integration and free trade agreement (FTA)-led cooperation between Asia and Latin America has increased since the … early 2000s. Using new criteria, this paper examines whether Asia-Latin America FTAs have facilitated market-led integration … by liberalizing trade and behind the border regulatory barriers. Overall Asia-Latin America FTAs provide the foundations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278093
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Asia-Latin America Free Trade Agreements : An Instrument for Inter-Regional Liberalization and Integration?
Wignaraja, Ganeshan; Ramizo, Dorothea; Burmeister, Luca - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
Trade integration and free trade agreement (FTA)-led cooperation between Asia and Latin America has increased since the … early 2000s. Using new criteria, this paper examines whether Asia-Latin America FTAs have facilitated market-led integration … by liberalizing trade and behind the border regulatory barriers. Overall Asia-Latin America FTAs provide the foundations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278203
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Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) : Toward a Framework for Regional Economic Integration
Medalla, Erlinda M.; Vidar-Vale, Catherine; Balboa, Jenny D. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
down with the pace of reform and needs to march aggressively alongside its neighbors in East Asia, which is leading the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363309
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The Australia–US Free Trade Agreement - An Assessment
Dee, Philippa - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
Australia and the United States signed a bilateral trade agreement in 2004. This paper analyses the provisions of the agreement, compares the provisions with other bilateral and multilateral agreements and comments on the modelling that the Australian Government used to estimate the likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363370
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How Do FTAs Affect Exporting Firms in Thailand?
Wignaraja, Ganeshan; Olfindo, Rosechin; Pupphavesa, Wisarn - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
Thailandan outward-oriented regional production hubis one of East Asia's most active users of free trade agreements …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363401
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Deliberating a Philippine-US Free Trade Agreement : Issues, Challenges and Prospects
Medalla, Erlinda M.; Balboa, Jenny D. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
As a result of changing conditions in the world market and increasing global competition, trade and integration arrangements have become a part of economic and development strategies of countries. Bilateral economic partnerships or Free Trade Agreements are seen as an option in creating a stable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363418
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India-Sri Lanka Bilateral Free Trade Agreement : Six Years Performance and Beyond
Kelegama, Saman; Mukherji, Indra Nath - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
India-Sri Lanka Bilateral Free Trade Agreement signed in1998 was a pioneering attempt in the direction of trade liberalization in South Asian region. This paper examines the performance of the Agreement in the first six years of its coming into being and draws lessons from its success that could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363432
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Empirical Analyses of U.S. Congressional Voting on Recent FTA Bills
Im, Hyejoon; Sun, Hankyoung - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
This paper discusses what political and economic factors affect house representatives voting behavior on free trade agreement (FTA) implementation bills in the 108th and 109th Congresses in the U.S. using a simultaneous probit-tobit model that consists of contribution equations and voting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365054
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Chinese Agricultural Reform, the WTO and FTA Negotiations
Yao, Shunli - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
China's early industrialization created distortions. This paper identifies major distortions in the Chinese economy in the pre-reform era and brings agricultural distortions into perspective. Comparison is made of the reform experience in Chinese industry and agriculture. It suggests that with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365095