In countries, such as Singapore, that have implemented vehicle congestion policies, recent years have seen a shift towards motor vehicle taxes based on car use. Ownership taxes reduce the number of cars on the road, leaving the price per trip largely unaffected. Use taxes such as fuel taxes and...

It has been a hot debit whether a monetary union is feasible in the East Asian region. Most of the existing studies focus on the symmetric issue of the fundamental shocks and the extent of correlation by applying the Blanchard and Quah (1989) structural vector autoregression (VAR) technique,...