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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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JAPAN’S APPROACH TO ASIA PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION
Drysdale, Peter - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 1998
Since emerging as a leading industrial economy, Japan has played an important role in promoting Asia Pacific economic cooperation. Japan has been instrumental in every major initiative in economic cooperation in the region over the past three decades, including the Asia Pacific Economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363405
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363417
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Regional Cooperation in East Asia and FTA Strategies
Drysdale, Peter - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
The need for deeper financial and trade cooperation in East Asia became clear through the experience of the East Asian financial crisis. The imperatives of East Asian cooperation mean that the quest for East Asian influence and leadership on regional and international affairs through ASEAN + 3...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365127
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US AND EU TRADE POLICIES AND EAST ASIA
Drysdale, Peter; Findlay, Christopher - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This article identifies a number of examples of apparent lack of coherence in United States and European Union trade policies. They include the effect of preferential policies that lock in trade shares and inhibit growth promoting structural adjustment, biases in tariff structures, policies that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365151
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TAIWAN'S ROLE IN THE ECONOMIC ARCHITECTURE OF EAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
Drysdale, Peter; Xu, Xinpeng - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2004
The accession of both China and Taiwan to the World Trade Organization (WTO) had important implications for relations across the Taiwan Strait and Taiwans position in the regional economy although it did not fundamentally change trade policies by either side towards the other. Accession...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365156
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010901625
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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 ‘noodle bowl’ effect. This paper undertakes a comparative and firm-level analysis of the impact of RTAs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134359
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Japan’s foreign economic policy strategies and economic performance
Drysdale, Peter; Armstrong, Shiro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014
The economic rise of Japan in the 1980s was underpinned by commitment to catching up through domestic reform and accommodated externally within the framework of the postwar multilateral institutions like the GATT/WTO. Regional cooperative processes like APEC later complemented that framework,...
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