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Asia's contribution to global rebalancing

Adams, Charles; Jeong, Hoe Yun; Park, Cyn-Young - 2010

Developing Asia remains at the core of global payment imbalances. While the geographical concentration of current account imbalances is rather significant, with the People's Republic of China accounting for the lion's share of the region's current account surplus, how Asia contributes to global...

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Trade facilitation measures under free trade agreements : are they discriminatory against non-members?

Yamanaka, Shintarō; Tafgar, Aiken; Lazaro, Dorothea - 2010

Are trade facilitation measures under free trade agreements (FTAs) discriminatory? This important question has yet to be sufficiently explored by the existing literature on trade facilitation. Despite the multilateral scope and non-discriminatory objectives of trade facilitation measures, some...

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Do hub-and-spoke free trade agreements increase trade? : a panel data analysis

Alba, Joseph; Hur, Jung; Park, Donghyun - 2010

We use panel data consisting of 96 countries and covering the period 1960–2000 to investigate the effects of free trade agreements (FTAs) and hub-and-spoke systems of FTAs on exports. Our empirical results imply an annual growth rate of 5.57% in exports, leading to a doubling of exports after...

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A macroprudential framework for the early detection of banking problems in emerging economies

Loser, Claudio M.; Kiguel, Miguel A.; Mermelstein, David - 2010

This paper develops an analytical framework that can be used to anticipate problems in the banking system and enable supervisors to take mitigating actions at an early stage. This paper has two components. First, it develops an early warning indicator that is intended to capture a number of the...

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Does a leapfrogging growth strategy raise growth rate? : some international evidence

Wang, Zhi; Wei, Shang-jin; Wong, Anna - 2010

While openness to trade is a well-recognized hallmark of the Asian growth model, another component of the model is a leapfrogging strategy - the use of policies to guide industrial structural transformation ahead of a country's factor endowment. Does the leapfrogging strategy work? Opinions vary...

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A macroprudential framework for monitoring and examining financial soundness

Schou-Zibell, Lotte; Albert, Jose Ramon; Song, Lei Lei - 2010

America, and Europe, as well as selected economies from the developed world, panel regressions are estimated to quantify the …

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Financial monitoring in the new ASEAN-5 countries

Lim, Se Hee; Reyes, Noel G. - 2014

This paper examines the issues surrounding the implementation of global regulatory reforms - spearheaded by the G20 and mainly under the aegis of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) - in Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), Myanmar, and Viet Nam (BCLMV)....

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Study of non-notified trade agreements to the World Trade Organization : the case of Asia and Pacific Region

Yamanaka, Shintarō - 2014

(RTAs) at the World Trade Organization (WTO). Information sharing on RTAs is critically important because monitoring is …

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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 …) determinants of preferential trade agreements and using the World Bank's database on the restrictiveness of domestic services … results suggest that countries within Asia that are more remote from the rest of the world and that have similar economic …

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The investment version of the Asian noodle bowl : the proliferation of international investment agreements

Chaisse, Julien; Yamanaka, Shintarō - 2014

While there is an extensive amount of literature on the noodle bowl of agreements in Asia, the majority of studies exclusively focus on trade (in goods). So far, little emphasis has been placed on the proliferation of international investment treaties (IIAs). Given the significance of IIAs, it...

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