America, Asia and MENA). It covers the period 1979-2004, and carries out “second-generation” tests for non-stationary panels …

networks. Starting with country-level data, we find that both producer price and consumer price inflation rates move more … intermediate inputs for economies in the Asia-Pacific region and examine the impact on domestic producer prices of changes in costs … price dynamics in the Asia-Pacific region …

emerging Asia there is more regional than global integration, and that the former has become even stronger in the post-2008 …

Southeast Asia. In view of slowdown in growth and even recession in advanced economies as a result of the adverse impact of the … toward rising middle class of Asia. To successfully implement the new initiative of “Make in India”, India needs to be …

ascertain that today's trade issues in Northeast Asia go beyond the traditional mechanisms of tariffs, and include "behind … transaction costs along with trade infrastructure facilities have significant influence on regional trade flows in Northeast Asia …. On average, 10 percent saving in transaction costs increases imports by about 5 percent in Northeast Asia. This paper …

This study seeks to determine the extent to which the former communist states of Central and South-West Asia are …

either the inflation or the output gap varies in terms of magnitude and/or statistical significance across the high and low … inflation regimes in all countries. In particular, the exchange rate has an impact in the former but not in the latter regime …