Economic Development and Cooperation in the Pacific Basin

Herausgeber: Lee, Hiro; Roland-Holst, David W.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1998 text appraises and distils the most important issues facing policy makers around the Pacific Basin.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 961g
• ISBN-13: 9780521583664
• ISBN-10: 0521583667
• Artikelnr.: 21803846

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction and Overview: 1. Prelude to the Pacific century:
overview of the region, leading issues, and methodology Hiro Lee and David
Roland-Holst; Part II. US-Japan and Asian Trade Patterns: 2. Cooperative
approaches to shifting comparative advantage: the case of bilateral trade
between the United States and Japan Hiro Lee and David Roland-Holst;
Comment Peter A. Petri; 3. Is there an Asian export model? Marcus Noland;
Comment Albert Fishlow; Part III. Regional Trading: Arrangements in the
Pacific Basin: 4. Should East Asia go regional? Arvind Panagariya; Comment
Barry Eichengreen; 5. Political feasibility and empirical assessments of a
Pacific free trade area Hiro Lee and David Roland-Holst; Comment Alain de
Janvry; 6. Regionalism in the Pacific basin: strategic interest of ASEAN in
APEC Tan Kong Yam; Comment Pearl Imada Iboshi; Part IV. Foreign Direct
Investment: Determinants and Consequences: 7. The determinants of foreign
direct investment: a survey with application to the United States Peter A.
Petri and Michael G. Plummer; Comment Jeffrey H. Bergstrand; 8. Are trade
and direct investment substitutes or complements? An analysis of the
Japanese manufacturing industry Masahiro Kawai and Shujiro Urata; Comments
Julia Lowell; 9. Korea's outward foreign direct investment and the division
of labor in the Asia-Pacific Jai-Won Ryou; Comment Chung H. Lee; 10.
China's absorption of foreign direct investment Shang-Jin Wei; Comment K.
C. Fung; 11. The impact of foreign investment in Indonesia: historical
trends and simulation analysis Iwan Azis; Comment William E. James; Part V.
Trade Resources and the Environment: 12. Economic development and the
environment in China Wang Huijiong and Li Shantong; Comment Mark
Poffenberger; 13. Outward orientation and the environment in the Pacific
Basin: coordinated trade and environmental policy reform in Mexico John
Beghin, David Roland-Holst, and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe; Comment
David Zilberman and Linda Fernandez.