Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) in the Asia-Pacific region have proliferated rapidly over the past five years and … potential gains from Asia-Pacific PTAs requires a commitment to liberalize sensitive sectors, to maintain consistent provisions …

Is the recent proliferation of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) in Asia a healthy development, or runs the risk of …

-run perspective, manufacturing exporters in East Asia adopted financial mercantilism-subsidizing the cost of capital- during decades …

in Asia during the 1990s is found to be mainly from capital deepening. Total factor productivity (TFP) is also decomposed …

The paper evaluates the South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) within the global structure of overlapping regional …

with the yen carry-trade; and that China is key to understanding Asia's demographic impact on the world. It also finds that … Asia offers the greatest arbitrage opportunities worldwide during the demographic transition and has the greatest potential … for regional financial integration among world regions. Moreover, the demographic transition is unlikely to result in an …

of financial integration or interrelatedness, asking how Asia compares with Europe and Latin America and with the base … more financially integrated than other regions. Asia, more interestingly, already seems to have made more progress on this … front than Latin America and other parts of the world. The contrast with Latin America is largely explained by stronger …

? Data from South Asia suggest that member states have minor trade linkages and face asymmetrical patterns of shocks. This …