The establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) at end-2015 has brought into sharp focus the issue of financial and economic integration in the region. This paper takes stock of ASEAN's financial integration and prospects. ASEAN integration could accelerate in the years ahead; it will...

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. RELATED LITERATURE -- III. THE MODEL -- IV. CROSS- COUNTRY INCOME DIFFERENCES -- V. POLICY EXPERIMENTS -- VI. THE AID COST OF REFORM -- VII. AID FAILURES -- VIII. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- A. Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Closed Economy -- B. Optimal...

Asia is at the forefront of the digital revolution, which promises a radical transformation of the global economy, and indeed of society itself, while at the same time threatening substantial disruptions and dislocation. For instance, workers worry that robots will make them obsolete, while...

Overview -- Part I. Introduction to Economic Growth -- Neoclassical Growth Theory -- Extensions to Neoclassical Growth Theory -- Two Sector -- Growth Models -- Part II. Dual Economies -- Wage and Fertility Gaps in Dual Economies -- Physical Capital in Dual Economies -- A Complete Dual -- Economy...

This textbook examines corruption through a macroeconomic lens, exploring the relationship between corruption, fiscal policy, and political economy. It merges macroeconomic growth models with elements of political economic theory to address important applied topics such as income inequality...

Chapter 1. introduction -- Chapter 2. Two-Period Model of Government Investment -- Chapter 3. Politics and Corruption in the Two-Period Model -- Chapter 4. Overlapping-Generations Model of Growth -- Chapter 5. Fiscal Policy in the Overlapping-Generations Model. Chapter 5. Politics, Corruption,...

This paper offers possible explanations for three generally observed facts about fiscal policy and development: (F1) The relative size of government increases as an economy develops, (F2) The rise in government and taxation are associated with rising or constant economic growth rates, and (F3)...