Research

Edited/Co-edited Books and Special Issues of Journals

• Megaregionalism 2.0: Trade and Innovation within Global Networks (World Scientific, Singapore), forthcoming December 2017 (with D. Ernst).
• Connecting Asia: Infrastructure for Integrating South and Southeast Asia (London, Edward Elgar, 2016) (with G. Wignaraja and P. Morgan, eds.).
• Regional Perspectives on Aid for Trade (Paris: OECD, November 2014) (principal author). Downloads: 3900, as of September 2017.
• Oxford Handbook of International Commercial Policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, April 2012) (with M. Kreinin, eds.).
• Realizing the ASEAN Economic Community: A Comprehensive Assessment (Singapore: ISEAS, November 2009) (with C.S. Yue, eds.).

Selected Articles, Book Chapters and Other Significant Publications:

• “Going It Alone in the Asia-Pacific: Regional Trade Agreements without the United States,” PIIE Working Paper 17-2, October 2017 (with P.Petri, S.Urata, and F.Zhai).
• “The Economic Effects of the Transpacific Partnership: New Estimates,” Ch. 1 in Cimino-Isaacs, Cathleen and Jeffrey J. Schott (eds.), 2016. (with P.Petri). Also, published in January 2016 as PIIE Working Paper 16-2. Listed by SSRN in Top 10 of all time downloads for Trade & Foreign Exchange Policies in Developing Economies, as of 17 October 2017.
• “Potential Macroeconomic Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership,” Ch. 4 in World Bank, Global Economic Prospects: Spillovers and Weak Growth, January 2016 (Washington, D.C., World Bank) (with C. Lakatos, M. Maliszewska, F. Ohnsorge, and P. Petri), pp. 219-255.
• “Economic Implications of Deeper South Asian-Southeast Asian Integration: A CGE Approach,” Asian Economic Papers (MIT Press), Vol. 14, No. 3, Fall 2015, pp. 63-81 (with G. Wignaraja, P. Morgan, and F. Zhai). Also ADBI Working Paper No. 494.
• “Asian Regionalism and its Implications for Europe ‘Post-Doha’,” Asian Economic Papers (MIT Press) 13:1, 2014, pp. 53-79.
• “The Effects of a China-US Free Trade and Investment Agreement,” Ch. 2 in Bergsten, et. al., Bridging the Pacific: Toward Free Trade and Investment between China and the United States (Washington, DC: Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2014) (with P. Petri and F. Zhai), pp. 31-84.
• “The TPP, China, and FTAAP: The Case for Convergence,” Ch. 6 in Peter Petri and Tang Guoqiang (eds.), New Directions in Asia Pacific Economic Integration, China Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (China PECC) and US Asia-Pacific Council (USAPC) (with P. Petri and F. Zhai), 2014, pp. 78-98. Cited by the Economist Magazine (May 30, 2015) as the most influential CGE study on the Transpacific Partnership.

Other Refereed Journal Articles

• “Mega-regionalism in Asia and Implications for Europe,” Asian Survey, 56 (6), November/December, 2016, pp. 1040-1054.
• “Back to Basics: Post-Crisis Rebalancing in ASEAN,” ASEAN Economic Bulletin, Vol. 28, No. 2, August 2011, pp. 160-182 (with M. Lesher).
• “The Challenge of Policy Reform in Post-Crisis ASEAN,” The Indonesia Quarterly, Fourth Quarter 2010, Vol. 38, No. 4 (with M. Lesher).
• “The Triad in Crisis: What We Have Learned and How it Will Change Global Cooperation,” Journal of Asian Economics 20 (2009), pp. 700-713 (with P. Petri).
• “An ASEAN Customs Union?,” Journal of Asian Economics, Vol. 17, 2006, pp. 923-938.
• “Quantitative Survey of the Economics of US-ASEAN Free-Trade Areas,” ASEAN Economic Bulletin, Vol. 23/2, August 2006 (with S. Naya).
• “The ASEAN-EU Economic Relationship: Integration and Lessons for the ASEAN Economic Community,” Journal of Asian Economics, 17.3, 2006, pp. 427-447.
• “The Enterprise for ASEAN Initiative: Implications for ASEAN, its Members, and the ASEAN-US Economic Relationship,” The Philippine Economic Review, Vol. XLIII, No. 1, June 2006, pp. 31-49.

Significant Refereed Book Chapters and Similar Publications

• “The TTIP, Mega-regionalism, and Asia,” Ch. 13 in Das, Sanchita Basu and Masahiro Kawai (eds.), Trade Regionalism in the Asia-Pacific: Developments and Future Challenges (Singapore: ISEAS, 2016).
• Assessing the Effects of ASEAN Economic Integration on Labor Markets, ILO Asia-Pacific Working Paper Series, September 2014, pp. 1-54. (with P. Petri and F. Zhai).
• “Transparency in International Trade Policy,” Chapter 7 in, Forssbaeck, Jens and Lors Oxelheim (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Political, Institutional and Corporate Transparency (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) (with A. Tafti), pp. 166-178.
• “The Emerging ‘Post-Doha’ Agenda and the New Regionalism in the Asia-Pacific,” Chaper 8 in M. Kawai, P. Morgan, and P.Rana (eds.), New Global Economic Architecture: The Asian Perspective (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar and Asian Development Bank Institute, 2014) (Also published as ADBI Working Paper 384, 28 September, 2012).
• “Trade and Financial Linkages between Europe and Japan: New Evidence and Scope for Improvement,” in Wolff, Guntram E., and Masahiko Yoshii (eds.), Japan and the European Union in the Global Economy, Part 1, Volume XXII, pp. 37-43, April 2014.
• “Regional and Global Cooperation,” Ch. 7 in ADB/ADBI, ASEAN, PRC, and India: The Great Transformation (Tokyo: ADB, 2014) (with S. Bery), pp. 233-266.
• “Boosting Value Chains via Regional Aid for Trade,” Chapter 4 in WTO-OECD, Aid for Trade at a Glance 2013 (Geneva, WTO-OECD, July).