1. New challenges for Asian financial integration / Yiping Huang and Shiro Armstrong -- 2. The global financial market crisis : policy lessons for Asia / Donald Hanna -- 3. International division of labour and global imbalances / Jianwei Xu and Yang Yao -- 4. Measuring systemic risk :...

The ten Southeast Asian economies reached a milestone on 31 December 2015, when they announced the formation of an ASEAN Community. Although this includes three pillars – ASEAN Political-Security Community, ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) and the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community – it is the...

The events of 9/11 and subsequent border entry security initiatives have led to increased costs and transportation delays that have the potential to impact Canada-U.S. trade. Researchers have identified increased border crossing times for importers and exporters transporting goods between the...

ASEAN has a goal to create an economic community by 2015. To achieve the goal, connectivity among the member states needs to be given due importance. In 2010, ASEAN adopted the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity (MPAC), which looked at physical, institutional and people-to-people connectivity. It...

Export Credit Agencies or Exim Banks play a vital role in promoting and facilitating exports. Such services are essential to exporters if they are to compete effectively in the global market. However, emerging markets of Asia depend on financing from industrial economies and this has risks. Such...

Professor Eichengreen has published widely on the international monetary and financial system. His books include Capital Flows and Crises, and Financial Crises and What to Do About Them. Data shows that Emerging Asia relies less on bonds and more on banks than developed countries. What costs, if...

It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the Southwest, however, two coercive labor systems, debt peonage—in which a debtor negotiated a relationship of servitude, often lifelong, to a...

Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- 1. Einleitung -- 2. Wilhelm Röpkes Vorstellungen einer integrierten Weltwirtschaft -- 3. Röpkes Sicht des Europäischen Integrationsprozesses -- 4. Röpkes Europaentwurf im Vergleich mit ausgewählten Ökonomen seiner Zeit -- 5. Europa aus...

This paper attempts to evaluate whether the PTA scheme has been successful in liberalizing intra-ASEAN trade through the new tariff reductions. More specfically, it stimulates the maximum potential trade creation effects within ASEAN of the 20% across-the-board tariff reduction on all items with...