Abstract This paper analyses the influence of the East Asian crisis and the subsequent reforms on the oligopolistic nature of the Thai banking industry. Since…
Topic: Political Economy
Abstract This paper investigates Thailand’s macroeconomic policy responses to the global financial crisis in 2009. Empirical evidence found in this paper indicates that fiscal policy…
Abstract This paper compares long-run economic growth in Indonesia and Thailand as related to technological progress during the second half of the twentieth century. It…
Abstract This paper uses national income identity to explain the causal relationships among Thailand’s aggregate volatility, deficient financial structure, financial liberalization, and financial crisis in…
Abstract The paper analyses the nature, the determinants, and the impacts of net capital inflows surging in Thailand after the 1997 currency and financial crises.…
Abstract Thailand’s long-term economic growth has been remarkable. This progress has been reflected in the very significant improvement in indicators of well-being, such as life…
Abstract This paper aims to review and evaluate the current trade policy of Thailand after the financial crisis, which is being pursued by the current…
Abstract This article examines the role of trade policy regimes in conditioning the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on growth performance in investment receiving (host) countries…
Abstract This paper studies the stability between energy consumption and GDP for Taiwan during 1954–2003. We use aggregate as well as various disaggregate data of…
Abstract In this paper, I aim to explain the puzzle of why economic integration leads to political separation in a cross-Strait exchange. Being a political…
Abstract As tensions across the Taiwan Strait have risen in recent years, some have argued that the US policy of strategic ambiguity—under which Washington leaves…
Abstract Following China’s accession to the WTO, Taiwan joined the trading body smoothly. This was believed to present a bright prospect for the trade relations…
Abstract This article examines legal and geopolitical aspects of the China-Taiwan Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA). It begins by analyzing areas in which the two…
Abstract Cross-strait relations underwent a fundamental change when both China and Taiwan joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001. The WTO is the first…
Abstract The following Working Paper provides an overview of Taiwan’s economic structure and the trading relations which have underpinned the globalization of its economy. The…
