This paper examines the impact of intra-Asia exchange rate volatility on intra-Asia trade in primary goods, intermediate goods, equipment goods, and consumption goods from 1980 to 2009. For Asia, the evidence shows that as intraregional exchange rate volatility increases, intraregional exports...

Using an unbalanced panel dataset of bilateral exports from 1992 to 2009, this paper assesses the potential trade impacts of the expansion of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to ASEAN+3 and ASEAN+6 on the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). It finds that bilateral...

Previous studies about FTA's roles on promoting members' international trade usually neglect three unevennesses: first, neglecting the roles of WTO membership on FTAs, second, neglecting the uneven roles of North-North, North-South and South-South FTAs, third and the most important, ignoring the...