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Property Rights and Financial Development : The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Institutions
Yoo, Dongwoo - 2010
this line of research to Asia. Japan imposed its system of well-defined property rights in land on some of its Asian … colonies, including Korea, Taiwan and Palau. In 1939 Japan began to survey and register private land in its island colonies, an … land registration obsolete. Third, considering all of Japan's colonies, we use the presence or absence of a land survey as …
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The Direct Substitution between Government and Private Consumption in East Asia
Kwan, Yum K. - 2006
, Japan, and Korea %u2013 tend to share similar and moderate values of the substitution elasticity. For the five ASEAN …
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Regional Trade Integration and Multinational Firm Strategies
Antras, Pol - 2010
This paper analyzes the effects of the formation of a regional trade agreement on the level and nature of multinational firm activity. We examine aggregate data that captures the response of U.S. multinational firms to the formation of the ASEAN free trade agreement. Observed patterns guide the...
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Beyond Goods and Services : Competition Policy, Investment, Mutual Recognition, Movement of Persons, and Broader Cooperation Provisions of Recent Ftas Involving ASEAN Countries
Dayaratna-Banda, O. G.; Whalley, John - 2021
We discuss recent bilateral, regional, and country trade, partnership, and economic agreements involving both ASEAN as a single entity and individual ASEAN countries (Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia) focusing on their reach beyond conventional trade in goods and services issues. What emerges is of...
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Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy Coordination in ASEAN 1
Branson, William H.; Healy, Conor N. - 2022
This paper develops the basis for monetary and exchange rate coordination in Asia as part of a package of monetary integration that could support growth and poverty reduction. This could be achieved directly through coordinated exchange rate stabilization, and indirectly through the implications...
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China's New Regional Trade Agreements
Antkiewicz, Agata; Whalley, John - 2022
This paper discusses the recent regional trade agreements that China has concluded rapidly following accession to the WTO in 2002. Agreements are in place with Hong Kong, Macao, ASEAN, Australia, and New Zealand, and are either in negotiation or under discussion with South Africa, Chile, India,...
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China's New Regional Trade Agreements
Antkiewicz, Agata; Whalley, John - 2010
This paper discusses the recent regional trade agreements that China has concluded rapidly following accession to the WTO in 2002. Agreements are in place with Hong Kong, Macao, ASEAN, Australia, and New Zealand, and are either in negotiation or under discussion with South Africa, Chile, India,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014067227
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How Did the Dollar Peg Fail in Asia?
Ito, Takatoshi; Ogawa, Eiji; Sasaki, Yuri Nagataki - 2021
In this paper we have constructed a theoretical model in which Asian firms maximize their profit, competing with Japanese and US firms in their markets. The duopoly model is used to determine export prices and volumes in response to the exchange rate fluctuations vis-...-vis the Japanese yen and...
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Ethnic Chinese Networks in International Trade
Rauch, James E. - 2011
Ethnic Chinese networks, as proxied by the product of ethnic Chinese population shares, are found in 1980 and 1990 to have increased bilateral trade both within Southeast Asia and for other country pairs. Their effects within Southeast Asia are much greater for differentiated than for...
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The Credit Crunch in East Asia : What Can Bank Excess Liquid Assets Tell Us?
Agenor, Pierre-Richard - 2004
The paper proposes a two-step approach to assessing the extent to which the fall in credit in crisis-stricken East Asian countries was a supply- or demand-induced phenomenon. The first step is based on the estimation of a demand function for excess liquid assets by commercial banks. Such a...
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