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In all the regions of the contemporary world - including Asia - there is a growing trend in market consolidation … Asia lags behind other regions, even though the region's geography and comparative advantages offer the potential for a … empirical methods. It begins with an overview of South Asia for a general understanding of the state of the region's economy and …
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Economic Integration in East Asia could be considered as an important building bloc toward integration of the Asia …-Pacific region. East Asia has made significant progress in creating institutions for closer cooperation and integration. The next … Asia. It will also discuss the challenges in economic cooperation and integration in the region, as well as some policy …
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In this paper, we will examine the level of services trade integration in Asia in comparison with Europe and North … America. The main empirical findings of this paper are that (i) the regional bias of services trade in Asia is as high or … higher than in Europe and North America; (ii) in Asia, the regional bias of services trade is higher than that of goods trade …
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Regional economic integration through logistics, information network and connectivity improvement can increase the 'virtual size' of an economy as trade with neighboring countries increases. This leads to substantial benefits from scale, network, coordination and agglomeration economies. As is...
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We propose a model of trade agreements in which contracting is costly, and as a consequence the optimal agreement may be incomplete. Inspite of its simplicity, the model yields rich predictions on the structure of the optimal trade agreement and how this depends on the fundamentals of the...
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This study brings together two major sources of growth in the modern economy: trade and new ideas. Trade is a crucial process to improve economic specialisation and raise the productivity of economies. It is also a channel to diffuse technology and knowledge across countries. International...
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tiefgreifendes Freihandelsabkommen zwischen der EU und dem VK, während das 'harte' Brexit Szenario mit der Einführung von MFN Zöllen …
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Since the beginning of 2017, a paradigm change in international trade policy is observed. While the protectionist agendas are on the rise, the EU and Japan signed an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) on 17 July 2018. It is the most ambitious agreement of the EU with any Asian state. The study...
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down with the pace of reform and needs to march aggressively alongside its neighbors in East Asia, which is leading the …
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This paper compiles a database on the rules of origin (ROOs) of the ASEAN plus 1 FTAs - namely ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement, ASEAN-Korea FTA, ASEAN-China FTA, ASEAN-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership, ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTA. For further insights, database compilation is also...
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