Consumer Goods Market Integration Among Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Member Economies: A PPP-Based Analysis

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seongman Moon
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Goods ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Economic Cooperation ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation ◽  
Goods Market

APEC HAS INDEED CREATED INTRA-REGIONAL TRADE: A SYSTEMATIC EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (05) ◽  
pp. 1077-1095 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUNG HUR ◽  
HYUN-HOON LEE
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Economic Cooperation ◽  
Gravity Equation ◽  
Fixed Effect ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Trade Creation ◽  
Regional Trade ◽  
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation ◽  
Manufactured Goods

The Asia–Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, whose approach is voluntary and non-binding in open regionalism, has been criticized for its alleged failure to develop a rapid liberalization process and to contribute to a greater level of intra-regional trade in the APEC region. Nonetheless, we find that APEC has been contributing to intra-regional trade creation, particularly in trade in manufactured goods as compared to trade in non-manufactured goods. This finding is robust to the various fixed-effect models and the first-differencing models which are applied to the gravity equation.

Formulating Policy on E-Commerce and Trade for SMEs in the Asia Pacific Region

2004 ◽  
pp. 134-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Breen ◽  
Suzanne Bergin-Seers ◽  
Stephen Burgess ◽  
Gordon Campbell ◽  
Muhammad Mahmood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Economic Cooperation ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation ◽  
Good Management

This chapter examines the role that the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) has played in setting government policy to encourage increased trade by SMEs. A study of six “successful” micro and small businesses in APEC economies that was commissioned by APEC examines their attitudes towards trade and e-commerce. The case studies show that e-commerce can be a facilitator to trade for businesses with a propensity towards entrepreneurship and good management practices. To other businesses it may be seen as an inhibitor due to the lack of knowledge associated with its use and its benefits. The chapter shows how APEC used this study and some of its other initiatives to develop its IT and e-commerce policy for SMEs as part of its overall policy for SME development in the region.

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