for East Asia's financial cooperation, including: (i) regional economic surveillance led by the Economic Review and Policy …

This paper examines the developments of cross-border portfolio assets and liabilities in the Asia and Pacific region …. Limited capital inflows to debt securities issued by emerging Asia may be attributable to the early stages of bond market … reflects Japan's preference toward debt securities. Other Asia and Pacific economies have invested more heavily in foreign …

portfolio equity and debt investment flows are negatively related to total factor productivity (TFP) in developing Asia, thereby … direct investment, although we find that there is no direct allocation puzzle in developing Asia, financial development can …

The paper gives an assessment of the progress made in developing local debt markets in emerging Asia. Market … scale, efficiency, and access. With rapid economic growth in Asia, a key challenge is to generate financial assets that can …

Asia increased substantially in response to quantitative easing in the United States financial market. The results of this … study confirm the existence of the bank lending channel in Asia and emphasize the role of credit flows in transmitting … found that the overall spillover effect was large but differed significantly in Asia by types of borrowing firms, financing …

Free trade agreements (FTAs) have proliferated in East Asia in recent years. As of December 2008, eight bilateral FTAs … pressing issue for Japanese firms because Japanese firms have expanded overseas, particularly into the rest of Asia, which has … contributed to the formation of production networks in East Asia. There have been numerous ex ante studies on the impacts of FTAs …

Although a latecomer, economically important Asia has emerged at the forefront of global free trade agreement (FTA …. Political economy considerations suggest that a likely scenario is for FTA consolidation in Asia to be followed by connections …

poverty reduction - in Asia. In exploring this relationship, this study goes beyond defining poverty by the income or … evidence that manufacturing growth has had a bearing on the inclusiveness of growth, especially in Southeast Asia in recent …

I analyze the risks in the banking systems in East Asia using the standard supervisory framework, which assesses … tests indicate that the largest banking systems in East Asia have a total of almost US$1.2 trillion in Tier 1 capital and a …