many potential gains from entering into free trade agreements (FTAs) with its neighbors, who collectively form a large and …

-Korea Free Trade Area (AKFTA) a case in point. This paper qualitatively and quantitatively examines the economic feasibility of …-dimensional analysis provides some, but not overwhelming, support for AKFTA's prospects as an effective means of promoting trade between …

Expanding trade with East Asia’s “Big Three” economic giants—the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Japan, and the … actively pursuing trade liberalization with the Big Three. The central objective of this paper is to qualitatively and … quantitatively assess the different permutations of ASEAN’s free trade agreements (FTAs) with the Big Three (e.g., ASEAN–PRC, ASEAN …

consider the policy actions needed to reduce obstacles to trade. The paper places special emphasis on Cambodia’s exports to the … People’s Republic of China (PRC), given the major export opportunities arising from the free trade agreement (FTA) between …

Free trade agreements (FTAs) have been proliferating in Asia for more than a decade. International fragmentation of … qualitative approach that carefully examines the characteristics of both product fragmentation trade and FTAs in Asia to ascertain … possible linkages. We find the relationship to be tenuous for a number of reasons. First, most product fragmentation trade …

There is a general consensus that trade between East Asia and South America is becoming increasingly important. However …, we know little about the actual dynamic development of this inter-regional trade. This paper examines whether the trend … of East Asia–South America trade is a general phenomena or a country- and commodity-specific issue, and whether the …

As tariffs are increasingly being reduced, trade economists and policymakers have begun to emphasize the importance of … reducing non-tariff trade costs to facilitate international trade flows. However, the measurement of trade costs and transport … their country’s trade facilitation status (improvement as well as deterioration) at the commodity level, to be able to …

Using an unbalanced panel dataset of bilateral exports from 1992 to 2009, this paper assesses the potential trade … tariffs. Simulation results show that the formation of free trade agreement (FTA) between ASEAN and the Plus-6 economies (the …, and New Zealand) can increase bilateral trade between the Lao PDR and ASEAN+6 by $1 billion, and ASEAN+3 by $981 million …

This paper investigates the effect of trade integration on military conflict. Our empirical analysis,based on a large … panel data set of 290,040 country-pair observations from 1950 to 2000, confirms that an increase in bilateral trade … interdependence and global trade openness significantly promotes peace. It also suggests that the effect of trade openness varies …

This paper examines the impact of intra-Asia exchange rate volatility on intra-Asia trade in primary goods … economies trade relatively little with each other. …