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Are Regional Trade Agreements in Asia Stumbling or Building Blocks? Some Implications for the Mekong-3 Countries
Tumbarello, Patrizia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
Is the recent proliferation of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) in Asia a healthy development, or runs the risk of turning into an unmanageable "noodle bowl" in the future? The goal of this paper is to shed some light on this question. The results show that membership in the Asian RTAs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263990
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Preferential Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific Region
Feridhanusetyawan, Tubagus - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) in the Asia-Pacific region have proliferated rapidly over the past five years and are creating a complex web of intersecting bilateral and regional trade agreements. This paper describes the proliferation of these PTAs, discusses their characteristics and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599528
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Regional Trade Arrangements in Africa; Past Performance and the Way Forward
Yang, Yongzheng; Gupta, Sanjeev - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
Regional trade arrangements (RTAs) in Africa have been ineffective in promoting trade and foreign direct investment. Relatively high external trade barriers and low resource complementarity between member countries limit both intra- and extraregional trade. Small market size, poor transport...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768946
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Intra-Arab Trade; Is it too Little?
Yousef, Tarik; Al-Atrash, Hassan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
This paper estimates a gravity model to address the issue of whether intra-Arab trade is too little. Although gravity models have been extensively used to measure bilateral trade among countries, they have—to the best of our knowledge—never been used to measure intra-Arab trade. Our results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769204
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Comesa and Sadc; Prospects and Challenges for Regional Trade Integration
Khandelwal, Padamja - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
Regional integration has been seen in Africa as a means of encouraging trade and securing economies of scale. This paper examines in detail the prospects and challenges for trade expansion in the two most prominent arrangements in eastern and southern Africa: the Common Market for Eastern and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005604840
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Will a Regional Bloc Enlarge?
Albertin, Giorgia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
This paper investigates whether a regional bloc would enlarge or remain stagnant in size using a model where enlargement is the endogenous outcome of the interaction between the supply of and demand for membership. We show that a maximum size of the bloc exists beyond which the regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263932
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How Does Financial Globalization Affect Risk Sharing? Patterns and Channels
Terrones, Marco; Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
In theory, one of the main benefits of financial globalization is that it should allow for more efficient international … outcomes during the recent period of globalization. Developing countries have, by and large, been shut out of this benefit. The … why emerging markets have not been able to realize this presumed benefit of financial globalization. In particular, our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263747
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Financial Globalization; A Reappraisal
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar; Rogoff, Kenneth; Wei, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
The literature on the benefits and costs of financial globalization for developing countries has exploded in recent … macroeconomic effects of financial globalization, in terms of both growth and volatility. Overall, our critical reading of the … financial globalization, but with many nuances. On the other hand, there is little systematic evidence to support widely cited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263828
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Global Business Cycles; Convergence or Decoupling?
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar; Otrok, Christopher - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
globalization (1985-2005), there has been some convergence of business cycle fluctuations among the group of industrial economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825794
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How Do Trade and Financial Integration Affect the Relationship Between Growth and Volatility?
Prasad, Eswar; Terrones, Marco; Kose, M. Ayhan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
context of globalization-a term typically used to describe the phenomenon of growing international trade and financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825974