Working Papers on Regional Economic Integration

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110: Can Global Value Chains Effectively Serve Regional Economic Development in Asia?

Hans-Peter Brunner

109: Preferential and Non-Preferential Approaches to Trade Liberalization in East Asia: What Differences Do Utilization Rates and Reciprocity Make?

Jayant Menon

108: Cross-Regional Comparison of Trade Integration: The Case of Services

Shintaro Hamanaka

107: Hot Money Flows, Commodity Price Cycles, and Financial Repression in the US and the People’s Republic of China: The Consequences of Near Zero US Interest Rates

Ronald McKinnon and Zhao Liu

106: The Threat of Financial Contagion to Emerging Asia’s Local Bond Markets: Spillovers from Global Crises

Iwan Azis, Sabyasachi Mitra, Anthony Baluga and Roselle Dime

105: Critical Review of East Asia – South America Trade

Shintaro Hamanaka and Aiken Tafgar

104: A New Regime of SME Finance in Emerging Asia: Empowering Growth-Oriented SMEs to Build Resilient National Economies

Shigehiro Shinozaki

103: Japan’s Education Services Imports: Branch Campus or Subsidiary Campus?

Shintaro Hamanaka

102: Anatomy of South–South FTAs in Asia: Comparisons with Africa, Latin America, and the Pacific Islands

Shintaro Hamanaka

101: Different Types of Firms, Products, and Directions of Trade: The Case of the People’s Republic of China

Hyun-Hoon Lee, Donghyun Park and Jing Wang

100: Narrowing the Development Divide in ASEAN: The Role of Policy

Jayant Menon

99: The Impact of ACFTA on People’s Republic of China–ASEAN Trade: Estimates Based on an Extended Gravity Model for Component Trade

Yu Sheng, Hsiao Chink Tang and Xinpeng Xu

98: ASEAN-China Free Trade Area and the Competitiveness of Local Industries: A Case Study of Major Industries in the Lao People's Democratic Republic

Leebeer Leebouapao, Sthabandith Insisienmay and Vanthana Nolintha

97: Determinants of Local Currency Bonds and Foreign Holdings: Implications for Bond Market Development in the People’s Republic of China

Kee-Hong Bae

96: Why Do Imports Fall More than Exports Especially During Crises? Evidence from Selected Asian Economies

Hsiao Chink Tang

95: Measuring Commodity-Level Trade Costs in Asia: The Basis for Effective Trade Facilitation Policies in the Region

Shintaro Hamanaka and Romana Domingo

94: Strengthening the Financial System and Mobilizing Savings to Support More Balanced Growth in ASEAN+3

A. Noy Siackhachanh

93: Assessing the Resilience of ASEAN Banking Systems: The Case of the Philippines

Jose Ramon Albert and Thiam Hee Ng

92: The PRC’s Free Trade Agreements with ASEAN, Japan, and the Republic of Korea: A Comparative Analysis

Gemma Estrada, Donghyun Park, Innwon Park and Soonchan Park

91: Is Trade in Asia Really Integrating?

Shintaro Hamanaka

90: Intra-Asia Exchange Rate Volatility and Intra-Asia Trade: Evidence by Type of Goods

Hsiao Chink Tang

89: Is Technical Assistance under Free Trade Agreements WTO-Plus? A Review of Japan–ASEAN Economic Partnership Agreements

Shintaro Hamanaka

88: Utilizing the Multiple Mirror Technique to Assess the Quality of Cambodian Trade Statistics

Shintaro Hamanaka

87: The Role of the People’s Republic of China in International Fragmentation and Production Networks: An Empirical Investigation

Hyun-Hoon Lee, Donghyun Park and Jing Wang

86: Impediments to Growth of the Garment and Food Industries in Cambodia: Exploring Potential Benefits of the ASEAN-PRC FTA

Vannarith Chheang and Shintaro Hamanaka

85: Institution Building for African Regionalism

Gilbert M. Khadiagala

84: What Drives Different Types of Capital Flows and Their Volatilities in Developing Asia?

Rogelio Mercado and Cyn-Young Park

83: The People’s Republic of China and India: Commercial Policies in the Giants

Ganeshan Wignaraja

82: Asian Regional Institutions and the Possibilities for Socializing the Behavior of States

Amitav Acharya

81: Economic Crises and Institutions for Regional Economic Cooperation

C. Randall Henning

80: Sequencing Regionalism: Theory, European Practice, and Lessons for Asia

Richard Baldwin

79: Financial Integration in Emerging Asia: Challenges and Prospects

Cyn-Young Park and Jong-Wha Lee

78: Trade and Investment in the Greater Mekong Subregion: Remaining Challenges and the Unfinished Policy Agenda

Jayant Menon and Anna Cassandra Melendez

77: Early Warning Systems in the Republic of Korea: Experiences, Lessons, and Future Steps

Hyungmin Jung and Hoe Yun Jeong

76: ASEAN-5 Macroeconomic Forecasting Using a GVAR Model

Fei Han and Thiam Hee Ng

75: ASEAN’s Free Trade Agreements with the People’s Republic of China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis

Gemma Estrada, Donghyun Park, Innwon Park and Soonchan Park

74: Asia’s Strategic Participation in the Group of 20 for Global Economic Governance Reform: From the Perspective of International Trade

Taeho Bark and Moonsung Kang

73: What do Asian Countries Want the Seat at the High Table for? G20 as a New Global Economic Governance Forum and the Role of Asia

Yoon Je Cho

72: The Impact of Monetary Policy on Financial Markets in Small Open Economies: More or Less Effective During the Global Financial Crisis?

Steven Pennings, Arief Ramayandi and Hsiao Chink Tang

71: The Organizational Architecture of the Asia–Pacific: Insights from the New Institutionalism

Stephan Haggard

70: Changing Impact of Fiscal Policy on Selected ASEAN Countries

Hsiao Chink Tang, Philip Liu and Eddie C. Cheung

69: ASEAN Economic Integration: Features, Fulfillments, Failures and the Future

Hal Hill and Jayant Menon

68: Evolving Asian Power Balances and Alternate Conceptions for Building Regional Institutions

Yong Wang

67: Institutional Parameters of a Region-Wide Economic Agreement in Asia: Examination of Trans-Pacific Partnership and ASEAN+α Free Trade Agreement Approaches

Shintaro Hamanaka

66: The Awakening Chinese Economy: Macro and Terms of Trade Impacts on 10 Major Asia-Pacific Countries

Yin Hua Mai, Philip David Adams, Peter Bishop Dixon and Jayant Menon

65: Regional Judicial Institutions and Economic Cooperation: Lessons for Asia?

Erik Voeten

64: Institutional Design of Regional Integration: Balancing Delegation and Representation

Simon Hix

63: Labor and Grassroots Civic Interests In Regional Institutions

Helen E.S. Nesadurai

62: Organizing the Wider East Asia Region

Christopher M. Dent

61: Shaping New Regionalism in the Pacific Islands: Back to the Future?

Satish Chand