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ADBI Working Papers
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Promoting Learning and Industrial Upgrading in ASEAN Countries
This paper traces the effects of the "East Asian Miracle," the 1997-1998 Asian Crisis, the recovery, and the 2008-2009 global financial crisis on ASEAN countries. It also considers how AS...
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The Impact of Free Trade Agreements on Business Activity: A Survey of Firms i...
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has emerged as a major player in the global economy and considers free trade agreements (FTAs) an important part of its global trading strategy. The P...
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Asset Market Structures and Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy
This paper sets up a canonical new Keynesian small open economy model with nominal price rigidities to explore the impact of habit persistence and exchange rate pass-through on the welfar...
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Changing Commercial Policy in Japan During 1985–2010
In this paper we examine the changing nature of Japan’s commercial policy over the last 25 years while reviewing Japan’s changing structure of trade, FDI and economy that underlay policy ...
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Asia's Post-Global Financial Crisis Adjustment: A Model-Based Dynamic
Using a dynamic global general equilibrium model, the paper assesses the short- and medium-term impacts of the global financial crisis on Asian economies and the implications of post-cris...
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EU-Asia Free Trade Areas? Economic and Policy Considerations
This paper analyzes key aspects of the changing economic relationship between the European Union (EU) and Asia, and explores the potential economic ramifications of deeper EU-Asian econom...
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Universalizing Complete Access to Finance: Key Conceptual Issues
In this paper, we present two stylized models of the financial system. We make the case that in order to realize the potential of a well-functioning complete financial market, financial s...
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How the iPhone Widens the United States Trade Deficit with the People’s Repub...
In this paper, the authors use the iPhone as a case to show that even high-tech products invented by United States (US) companies will not increase US exports, but on the contrary exacerb...
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Financial Development: A Broader Perspective
This paper seeks to add to the current debate about financial development and growth in the emerging world by looking at how different financial systems evolve: how and why financial stru...
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Financial Inclusion and Financial Stability: Current Policy Issues
The recent financial crisis has shown that financial innovation can have devastating systemic impacts. International standard setters' and national regulators' response has been a global ...
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How Elastic is East Asian Demand for Consumption Goods?
This paper investigates import demand in East Asia. Estimating exchange rate elasticities for countries in the region is difficult because many imports are used to produce goods for re-ex...
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Policies and Measures to Mitigate Potential Environmental Impacts of Cross Bo...
While bringing positive impacts and benefits, cross-border infrastructure projects face additional challenges relative to national projects. Moreover, such projects involve a variety of t...
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A De Facto Asian-Currency Unit Bloc in East Asia: It Has Been There but We Di...
Pegging in a coordinated way to a regional basket currency is considered by many as optimal for east-Asian countries. By contrast, according to existing empirical studies, these countries...
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The Effect of Exchange Rate Changes on Trade in East Asia
This paper considers how exchange rates affect East Asian trade. The evidence indicates that exports produced within regional production networks depend on exchange rates throughout the r...
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Market Failures and Regulatory Failures: Lessons from Past and Present Financ...
The paper analyzes the financial crisis of 2007-2009 through the lens of market failures and regulatory failures and presents a case that there were four primary failures contributing to ...
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