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Institutional parameters of a region-wide economic agreement in Asia : examination of Trans-Pacific Partnership and ASEAN+α Free Trade Agreement approaches

Yamanaka, Shintarō - 2010

The future creation of a region-wide economic agreement in Asia has become the hot issue among trade policymakers in … the region. The APEC 2010 Summit Statement clearly states that the members should pursue a Free Trade Area of the Asia … (TPP). This paper considers the path or sequencing towards a future region-wide economic agreement in Asia, both …

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Trans-pacific partnership versus Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership : control of membership and agenda setting

Yamanaka, Shintarō - 2014

This paper argues that the formation of regional integration frameworks can be best understood as a dominant state's attempt to create a preferred regional framework in which it can exercise exclusive influence. In this context, it is important to observe not only which countries are included in...

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Is technical assistance under free trade agreements WTO-plus? : a review of Japan-ASEAN economic partnership agreements

Yamanaka, Shintarō - 2011

have not been thoroughly conducted. This paper presents a detailed textual analysis of World Trade Organization (WTO …) Agreements and several FTAs in Asia, and identifies how much additional technical assistance developing member countries can …

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Business cycle synchronization in Asia : the role of financial and trade linkages

Dai, Yuwen - 2014

In this research project, we attempt to examine the behavior of business cycles in Asia in order to deepen our …

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Economic integration in East Asia : trends, prospects, and a possible roadmap

Rana, Pradumna Bickram - 2006

This paper reviews trends in East Asian regionalism in the areas of trade and investment, money and finance, and infrastructure. It presents various measures of trade and financial integration. An important finding of the paper is that increasing trade and financial integration in the region is...

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Sequencing regionalism : theory, European practice, and lessons for Asia

Baldwin, Richard E. - 2011

for today's integration of East Asia. The paper suggests that the spontaneous cooperation that created "Factory Asia" has …

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Explaining foreign holdings of Asia’s debt securities

Horioka, Charles; Nomoto, Takaaki; Terada Hagiwara, Akiko - 2014

securities, with emphasis on Japan and developing Asia. We find that foreign residents generally increased their holdings of …

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Why do countries enter into preferential agreements on trade in services? : assessing the potential for negotiated regulatory convergence in Asian services markets

Sauvé, Pierre; Shingal, Anirudh - 2014

More than half of the World Trade Organization (WTO)-notified services trade agreements (STAs) in effect since 2008 … results suggest that countries within Asia that are more remote from the rest of the world and that have similar economic … empirical model successfully predicts 10 of the 14 STAs negotiated during 2008-12 and 88 of the 89 dyads within Asia that lack …

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