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Overview - domestic regulatory reform and trade liberalisation
No full textAlexandra Sidorenko and Christopher Findla
Patterns of domestic grain flows and regional comparative advantage in grain production in China
No full textReshaping the Asia Pacific economic order
No full textRelationships and alignments among the nations of the world's most populous and productive region, the Asia Pacific, are in flux. Current global political, economic and security uncertainty, heightened by 9/11 and the subsequent War on Terror, has fuelled a reassessment by many Asia Pacific nations about the structure and form of future economic and political cooperation and development. Featuring contributions from some of the most eminent and influential economists and political scientists in the Asia Pacific region, this book explores the forces reshaping the Asia Pacific economic order, and where these changes may lead. Focusing on the origins of the shift towards policy driven integration, the book examines what new structures may eventually emerge on both sides of the Pacific, the ways in which this shift will affect the progress of economic integration and how cross-Pacific relations will therefore be affected. © 2006 PAFTAD International Secretariat for selection and editorial matter. All rights reserved.Edited by Christopher Findlay and Hadi Soesastr
Services in free trade agreements
No full textAbstractThe following sections are included:IntroductionForm and ContentRegional characteristics of formNegative-list versus positive-list approach — ContentsThe GATS template versus the NAFTA TemplateDomestic RegulationMarket Access and National TreatmentComparison Between Bilateral and Multiple Member AgreementsRules of OriginOverall Evaluation on LiberalisationSummaryAppendixReferenceshttp://trove.nla.gov.au/work/3709574
FDI liberalisation, free trade agreements and greater regionalism in Asia and ASEAN
No full textShandre M. Thangavelu, Christopher Findlay and Hank Li
Bank Efficiency, Regulation, and Response to Crisis of Financial Institutions in Selected Asian Countries
No full textThis paper studies the determinants of efficiency of banks in the Southeast Asian countries of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. The study, which covers nearly 600 banks from 1994 to 2008, adopts the two-stage least square fixed-effects (FE2SLS) and two-stage least square random-effects estimators (RE2SLS) as provided by Baltagi (2001) to address individual bank heterogeneity and endogeneity issues related to bank efficiency. It focuses on three key areas: (1) bank-specific activities such as off-balance sheet activities of banks, (2) financial liberalization through foreign participation and ownership, and (3) impact of bank regulation and supervision. The results of the paper indicate that off-balance sheet activities tend to reduce bank efficiency. The foreign participation and ownership in the financial markets tend to increase bank efficiency. Bank regulation in restricting activities on non-interest income and authority of official supervision tends to improve bank efficiency. Bank supervision through the intensity of private monitoring of the financial markets tends to reduce bank efficiency. The results of the paper indicate that bank regulation and supervision will be crucial to improve the efficiency of the banks and stability in the financial markets in the Southeast Asia.http://www.eria.org/research/y2010.htm
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