We argue that, as emerging market economies (EMEs) gradually converge with advanced economies, the advantages they gain from participating in trade and global value chains (GVCs) have lessened, resulting in lower growth in world trade postcrisis. But EMEs can sustain their long-term growth by...

This paper discusses different facts and trends with regard to globalisation in emerging market economies (EMEs). It focuses primarily on the real (as opposed to financial) side of the economy over the last 2-3 decades, and highlights important similarities and differences across countries with...

Market exchange is subject to an endogenously-determined level of predation which impedes specialization and gains from trade. Utility-maximizing agents opt between careers in specialized production and careers in predation. Three types of equilibria may emerge, autarky (with no predation and no...

As an export-oriented economy, Thailand is often faced with the question whether international trade yields real and sustainable benefits to its citizens, over and beyond what is reflected in its GDP figures. This paper attempts to answer that question, using the trade in value added (TiVA)...

Globalisation has contributed positively to the global economy in terms of economic growth and welfare. However, especially amid rising global interdependence, closer synchronisation of business and financial cycles and stronger linkages across monetary, macroprudential and fiscal policies, as...