The spread of Asia’s free trade agreements (FTAs) has sparked an important debate on the impact of such agreements on … ‘noodle bowl’ of overlapping regulations and rules of origin requirements – which may be costly to business. Asia’s Free Trade …

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 …

paper we explore the implications of such broad-based regional trade initiatives in Asia, highlighting the bridging of the … for East Asia is that China, Japan, and Korea be brought into any scheme for deeper regional integration. This matter … alone drives most of the income and trade effects in the East Asia region across all of our scenarios. The inclusion of the …

Bilateral and regional cooperation initiatives in Asia have been growing in importance over the last five years … sequence, is there a case for monetary union in East Asia? Is there a case for expanded free-trade areas (FTAs) in the region … Equilibrium (CGE) model, to evaluate the economics of monetary/financial integration and various configurations of FTAs in Asia …