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What does RCEP mean for insiders and outsiders? The experience of India and Sri Lanka

Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2018

This paper explores the economic implications of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) - Asia's largest trade agreement - on India and Sri Lanka. The findings from existing model-based studies suggest that India, as an insider economy, will potentially gain from the RCEP while...

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Does exporting increase productivity of Thai firms via linkage spillovers?

Cheewatrakoolpong, Kornkarun; Potipiti, Tanapong - 2014

spillover channel for exporting firms. Also, the current study finds that export destinations are an important factor in …

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Trade concentration and crisis spillover: Case study of transmission of the subprime crisis to Thailand

Cheewatrakoolpong, Kornkarun; Manprasert, Somprawin - 2012

The threat of the subprime crisis in the United States began to make itself felt in early 2008, with its effects subsequently become global. It is evident that trade linkages have been the most important channel for transmitting the subprime crisis to East Asian countries, including Thailand....

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Impact of the ASEAN Economic Community on ASEAN Production Networks

Cheewatrakoolpong, Kornkarun; Sabhasri, Chayodom; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013

ï»¿Empirical evidence suggests that the emergence of international production networks in East Asia results from market-driven forces such as vertical specialization and higher production costs in the home countries and institutional-led reasons such as free trade agreements. The growth in...

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Tariffs in New Zealand : The economic impacts of retaining tariffs in New Zealand A dynamic CGE analysis

Ballingall, John; Giesecke, James; Zuccollo, James - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

The government announced in late 2009 that it would freeze tariffs at current levels until 2015 at the earliest. We examine the potential costs and benefits to the New Zealand economy of this policy decision using a recently-developed dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the New...

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Does Finance Really Matter for the Participation of SMEs in International Trade? Evidence from 8,080 East Asian Firms

Jinjarak, Yothin; Mutuc, Paulo Jose; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014

This paper studies factors associated with firm participation in export markets, focusing primarily on firm size and … interdependent relationships between export participation, firm size, and access to credit. SMEs participating in export markets tend … participation in export markets. The estimation results also point to the supportive influences of foreign ownership, worker …

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Regional Trade Agreements and Enterprises in Southeast Asia

Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013

The spread of regional trade agreements (RTAs) in Southeast Asia has ignited a debate about their impact on business, and ways to avoid raising the business costs from the Asian â€˜noodle bowlâ€™ effect. This paper undertakes a comparative and firm-level analysis of the impact of RTAs...

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