As part of its trade policy, Singapore has recently embarked on what can broadly be termed "new regionalism". This is characterized by its new-found desire to enter into Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with the economic powerhouses (Japan and the United States in particular) as well as with a...

The debate that rapid globalization over the past decades is a leading cause of increased income inequality within developed economies has been far from conclusive, including Dorn et al. (2018). We depart from existing studies by extending an earlier empirical framework by Gaston and Rajaguru...

This paper examines Thailand's pre-crisis exchange rate policy, focusing on the degree of the country's real exchange rate misalignment pre-crisis and its consequent effects on Thailand's trade balance with its two large trading partners, the US and Japan, in the 1980s and 1990s. Defining...