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How Close is Asia to Already Being a Trade Bloc?
Li, Chunding - 2014
FTA bilateral and regional negotiations in Asia have developed quickly in the past decade moving Asia ever closer to an … another. For countries in Asia there is negotiation of a China-Japan-Korea agreement, a China-India agreement, a Trans … potential full Asia integration in the form of a trade bloc. Our results reveal that these large Asia economies can be close to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048052
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Numerical General Equilibrium Analysis of China's Impacts from Possible Mega Trade Deals
Li, Chunding - 2014
This paper explores the potential impacts on both China and other major countries of possible mega trade deals. These include the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), and various blocked deals. We use a numerical 13-country global general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048108
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China and the Tpp : A Numerical Simulation Assessment of the Effects Involved
Li, Chunding - 2012
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a new negotiation on cross border liberalization of goods and service flows going beyond WTO disciplines and focused on issues such as regulation and border controls. Though the US, Australia and other pacific countries are included, China is notable for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106304
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Financial and Capital Account Liberalization in the Pacific Basin : Korea and Taiwan During the 1980's
Chinn, Menzie David - 2008
This paper presents an alternative method of testing for financial capital mobility in the absence of forward exchange markets. A model of domestic interest rate determination during liberalization is applied to Korean and Taiwanese data. A variety of diagnostic and recursive tests are used to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012774969
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Relative Returns on Equities in Pacific Basin Countries
Engel, Charles M. - 2010
We examine the factors that determine the differences in ex ante returns on equities in eleven Pacific Basin countries. Our concern is whether real return differentials are primarily caused by nominal return differentials or expected changes in real exchange rates. We find that nominal return...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763463
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Is Japan Creating a Yen Bloc in East Asia and the Pacific?
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2021
This paper reaches seven conclusions regarding the Yen Bloc that Japan is reputed to be forming in Pacific Asia. (1 …) Gravity-model estimates of bilateral trade show that the level of trade in East Asia is biased intra-regionally, as it is … is no evidence of a special Japan effect. (3) Once one properly accounts for rapid growth in Asia, the statistics do not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218103
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"New" Trade Theory and Policy a Decade Old : Assessment in a Pacific Context
Richardson, J. David - 2021
This paper characterizes and evaluates what has been called variously the new, new-view, strategic or industrial organization approach to international trade and trade policy. This approach analyzes trade in strategic environments,' those in which small numbers of large, self-consciously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219192
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The Pacific Basin in World Trade : Part Iii, an Analysis of Changing Trade Patterns, 1955-1975
Hickman, Bert G.; Kuroda, Yoshimi; Lau, Lawrence J. - 2021
This is the third of a sequence of papers on international flows of trade among fifteen Pacific Basin (PB) countries and between them and eleven regions in the Rest of the World (ROW). In Part I of the sequence (Hickman, Kuroda and Lau, 1977a) we presented and documented annual data on bilateral...
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Growth and Convergence in the Asia-Pacific Region : On the Role of Openness, Trade and Migration
Taylor, Alan M. - 2021
This paper examines the relationship between openness, trade, and migration in the Asia-Pacific region during the post … array of openness measures play a major role in the successful growth performance of the Asia-Pacific region, a key channel … rates. However, I find that within-sample prediction for the Asia-Pacific region is harder to achieve -- 'good luck' as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225403
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The Usual Suspects? Productivity and Demand Shocks and Asia-Pacific Real Exchange Rates
Chinn, Menzie David - 2021
The evidence for a productivity-based explanation for real exchange rate behavior of East Asian currencies is examined. Using sectoral output and employment data, relative prices and relative productivities are calculated for China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240954