This paper presents both analytics and numerical simulation results relevant to proposals for carbon motivated regional trade agreements summarized in Dong & Whalley(2008). Unlike traditional regional trade agreements, by lowing tariffs on participant's low carbon emission goods and setting...

The recent collapse in international commodity prices has both positive and negative implications for Asia-Pacific economies, depending upon net commodity-trade positions. This paper focuses the impacts to net commodity-importing economies of Asia and the Pacific. It highlights that in addition...