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Economic implications of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership for Asia and the Pacific
Park, Cyn-Young; Petri, Peter A.; Plummer, Michael G. - 2021
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) presents strong potential to mold regional trade and investment patterns well into the future and to influence the direction of global economic cooperation at a challenging time. This paper evaluates the RCEP and estimates its potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012664623
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The noodle bowl effect : stumbling or building block?
Kang, Jong Woo - 2015
Although it is well-known that a global trade regime best ensures economic welfare, there has nevertheless been a proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) between individual countries. This poses the challenge known as the "noodle bowl effect" - stemming from different rules of origins and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317820
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The determinants of product-specific rules of origin : an econometric analysis in the regional comprehensive economic partnership
Crivelli, Pramila; Inama, Stefano; Marand, Jeremy - 2024
agreements in Asia based on manufacturing requirements, this study aims to identify the factors explaining the stringency of RCEP … Asia and reduce firms' costs of compliance in developing economies. It also demonstrates the need to strengthen aid for … trade in policy and negotiations in developing Asia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014465200
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Trade interdependencies in COVID-19-related essential medical goods : role of trade facilitation and cooperation for the Asian economies
Basu Das, Sanchita; Sen, Rahul - 2022
medical goods-vaccines and their value chains, personal protective equipment, and diagnostic test kits-across 29 Asia and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013269548
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Asian FTAs : trends, prospects, and challenges
Kawai, Masahiro; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2010
"Although a latecomer, economically important Asia has emerged at the forefront of global free trade agreement (FTA … encourage a regionwide FTA. Political economy considerations suggest that a likely scenario is for FTA consolidation in Asia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008749687
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Gravity-based tools for assessing the impact of tariff changes
Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik; Hugot, Jules - 2022
This paper presents two empirical tools to quantify the impacts of tariff changes on bilateral trade and welfare. Both tools are rooted in the structural gravity literature. The first tool estimates the impact of tariff changes on bilateral trade for 5,020 products in a partial equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012820833
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Realizing an ASEAN Economic Community : progress and remaining challenges
Menon, Jayant; Melendez, Anna Cassandra - 2015
Launched as a political bloc and security pact in the aftermath of the Viet Nam War, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has evolved to embrace an ambitious economic agenda. Its latest project is to establish the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 31 December 2015. Fulfilling these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281269
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International migration in Asia and the Pacific determinants and role of economic integration
Kikkawa, Aiko; Gaspar, Raymond; Park, Cyn-Young - 2019
labor in Asia and the Pacific has stagnated in recent years even as the flow of goods, services, and investment have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110449
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Prospects for services trade negotiations
Schott, Jeffrey J.; Lee, Minsoo; Muir, Julia - 2012
the case of developing Asia, free trade agreements have largely excluded services or have only committed to "lock in … range of infrastructure services that are included in other free trade agreements in force or under construction in Asia and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009659141
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Asian holdings of US treasury securities : trade integration as a threshold
Terada Hagiwara, Akiko - 2008
This paper empirically investigates if there have been any shift in regime with Asian holdings of long-term United States (US) Treasury securities, with particular attention paid to the role of growing regional integration in trade. A panel regression estimation of eight Asian countries for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003798211