trade imbalance, or the current account imbalance) as a proportion of the combined GDP of countries and link them in various …

This paper documents and compares the trade performance of the major Asian economies both during and following the 2008 … separate country data files giving monthly trade performance for both the import and export sides throughout the crisis. We use … these to compare the size, speed and acceleration of trade compression with the onset of the crisis, and the reverse effects …