The spectacular, sustained economic growth experienced in several East Asian countries leads to the question what Europe can learn from the East Asian economicmodel. Three advantages of the East Asian model stand out: small social transfers, low taxation and free labor markets. The superiority...

We study the effects of Chinese monetary policy shocks on China's major trading partners in East and South-East Asia by estimating structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) models for six economies in the region. We find that a monetary expansion in Mainland China leads to an increase in real GDP...

This paper assesses why the 2008–2009 global economic recession impacted East Asia less than it did the United States (US) and the European Union (EU). The paper utilizes a “growth-with-resilience” (GWR) index aimed at measuring the extent to which a country can absorb or counteract...