The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the People's Republic of China are economic partners as well as economic competitors. The ASEAN- People's Republic of China Free Trade Area (ACFTA), which is set to come into effect around 2010, is designed to boost trade between the two...

In this paper, we show an alternative method to evaluate the impact of trade and non-trade barriers on the final Output of a country. More specifically, we develop a new method, namely the Trade Dispute Sensibility Analysis (TDS-Analysis). The main idea behind the construction of TDS-Analysis is...

This paper proposes the uses of the global economic crisis smash effect simulator as a theoretical framework to evaluate the final effects of any global financial crisis on the world economy. We present different scenarios and results according to different levels of devastation that the global...

We investigate the relationship between economic growth and lagged international capital flows, disaggregated into FDI, portfolio investment, equity investment, and short-term debt. We follow about 100 countries during 1990-2010 when emerging markets became more integrated into the international...

We investigate the relationship between economic growth and lagged international capital flows, disaggregated into FDI, portfolio investment, equity investment, and short-term debt. We follow about 100 countries during 1990-2010 when emerging markets became more integrated into the international...