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Asia's strategic participation in the Group of 20 for global economic governance reform : from the perspective of international trade
Bark, Taeho - 2011
After considering the background to the G20 summit meetings after the recent global economic and financial crisis, this paper aims to identify the trade agenda that represents Asia's concerns for the global and regional trading system. Asia, in particular East Asia, has played an important role...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281462
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Global Trade Watch 2017 : Trade Defies Policy Uncertainty-Will It Last?
Constantinescu, Cristina - 2018
contributions to global trade growth have come from East Asian countries in the developing world and the Euro area in the developed … world. Merchandise trade, which in recent years has been less resilient than services trade, picked up, growing by 4 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645268
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Does trade integration contribute to peace?
Lee, Jong-Wha - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529705
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Connecting to Compete 2018 : Trade Logistics in the Global Economy
Arvis, Jean-Francois - 2018
This is the sixth edition of Connecting to Compete, a report summarizing the findings from the new dataset for the Logistics Performance Index (LPI) and its component indicators. The 2018 LPI also provides expanded data on supply chain performance and constraints in more than 100 countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645450
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Global Trade Watch 2018 : Trade Amid Tensions
Constantinescu, Cristina - 2019
. Trade policy developments are mixed. Restrictive trade measures imposed during 2018 affected 3.8 percent of world …-for-tat tariffs between the United States and China alone affected 2.0 percent of world merchandise trade in 2018. Ongoing trade … a multilateral approach and World Trade Organization reforms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646423
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Real and financial integration in East Asia
Kim, So-yŏng; Lee, Jong-Wha - 2008
We examine the real and financial integration of East Asian economies, comparing the degree of real versus financial integration, the degree of global versus regional integration, and the extent of integration before versus after the 1997/98 financial crisis in East Asian economies. We analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282132
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Policy uncertainty, trade, and global value chains : some facts, many questions
Constantinescu, Cristina; Mattoo, Aaditya; Ruta, Michele - 2019
-2018 may have caused a 1 percentage point decline in world trade growth. The paper also finds that the impact of policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167789
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The financial role of East Asian economies in global imbalances : an econometric assessment of developments after the global financial crisis
I, Hyeon hun; Park, Donghyun - 2013
The central objective of this paper is to empirically assess how global imbalances have evolved since the global financial crisis of 2008/09. More specifically, we examine how the security investment positions of major East Asian economies in United States (US) financial markets - equities,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010192390
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Trade Developments in 2016 : Policy Uncertainty Weighs on World Trade
Constantinescu, Cristina - 2017
This edition of Global Trade Watch addresses three questions concerning recent trade developments: What is happening? Why? Does it matter? 2016 is the fifth consecutive year of sluggish trade growth and the year with the weakest trade performance since the aftermath of the 2008 global financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248262
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Globalization and Potential
Zoellick, Robert B. - 2008
Robert B. Zoellick, President the World Bank Group, addressed the Commencement about the theme of the challenge of … globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645263