Asia Pacific Economic Papers is a working paper series that aims to provide a forum for the exchange of topical research and that is disseminated on-line or in hard copy to a specialised audience of researchers and libraries throughout the world. The name of the series has changed to reflect more accurately the geographic coverage of the papers. Papers are published under the direction of the Australia-Japan Research Centre's Editorial Advisory Committee and proposals for publication are subject to double-blind external review by two referees

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Number	Title	Year	Author(s)
PEP-380 full-text	Is Foreign Aid a Vanguard of Foreign Direct Investment? A Gravity-Equation Approach, 38 pp	2009	Hidemi Kimura Yasuyuki Todo
PEP-379 full-text	Rain, Elections and Money: The Impact of Voter Turnout on Distributive Policy Outcomes in Japan, 23 pp	2009	Yusaku Horichi Jun Saito
PEP-378 full-text	Japanese FDI in China: determinants and performance, 38 pp	2009	Shiro Armstrong
PEP-377 full-text	Expansion Abroad and Jobs at Home: Evidence from Japanese Multinational Enterprises, 31 pp	2008	Yamashita Fukao
PEP-376 full-text	Should Australia Encourage Developing Countries to Adopt Competition Laws?, 41 pp	2008	Henry Ergas
PEP-375 full-text	Will New Trends in Foreign Direct Investment Change the Structure of Intra-industry Trade between China and Japan?, 24 pp	2008	Tao Tao
PEP-374 full-text	Competition policy in ASEAN: Case studies, 67 pp	2008	Johannah Branson
PEP-373 full-text	Can the New Antimonopoly act change the Japanese business community?, 57 pp	2008	Kazukiyo Onishi
PEP-372 full-text	Immunising Future Trade Against Protectionists: Preventing the Emergence of More Sensitive Sectors, 25 pp	2008	Andrew Elek
PEP-371 full-text	Tax Law Asymmetries and Income Shifting: Evidence From Japanese Capital Keiretsu, 35 pp	2008	Kazuki Onji and David Vera
PEP-370 full-text	The Response of Firms to Eligibility Thresholds: Evidence from the Japanese Value-Added Tax, 44 pp	2008	Kazuki Onji
PEP-369, 2 full-text	China and East Asian Energy: Prospects and Issues, 156 pp	2008	Peter Drysdale, Kejun Jiang and Dominic Meagher (eds)
PEP-369, 1 full-text	China and East Asian Energy: Prospects and Issues, 118 pp	2008	Peter Drysdale, Kejun Jiang and Dominic Meagher (eds)
PEP-368 full-text	Measuring Trade and Trade Potential: A Survey, 26 pp	2007	Shiro Armstrong
PEP-367 full-text	APEC and Infectious Disease: Meeting the Challenge, 64 pp	2007	Joel Gilbourd
PEP-366 full-text	The flow of funds through a government – A case study on Japan, 38 pp	2007	Jun Ikeda
PEP-365 full-text	The Puzzle of Small Farming in Japan, 44 pp	2007	Yoshihisa Godo
PEP-364 full-text	How Should One Evaluate Fiscal Conditions? A Study Based on the Comparison Between Japan and Australia, 41 pp	2007	Jun Ikeda
PEP-363 full-text	Political Institutions and Distributive Politics in Japan: Getting Along with the Opposition, 34 pp	2007	Yusaku Horiuchi
PEP-362 full-text	Negotiating the Australia–Japan Basic Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation: Reflections and Afterthoughts, 34 pp	2007	Garry Woodard Moreen Dee Max Suich
PEP-361 full-text	China and East Asian Energy: Prospects and Issues, 157 pp	2007	Peter Drysdale Kejun Jiang Dominic Meagher
PEP-360 abstract/full-text	Agriculture and Political Reform in Japan: The Koizumi Legacy, 26 pp	2006	Aurelia George Mulgan
PEP-359 abstract/full-text	Nothing new in the (North) East? Interpreting the Rhetoric and Reality of Japanese Corporate Governance, 52 pp	2006	Luke Nottage
PEP-358 abstract/full-text	Multinational Corporations and Pacific Regionalism, 44 pp	2006	Philippa Dee
PEP-357 abstract/full-text	Reliability of Structural Shocks Estimates from a Bivariate SVAR Model: The Case of Southeast Asian Countries, 30 pp	2006	Arief Ramayandi
PEP-356 abstract/full-text	RMB Exchange Rate and Local Currency Price Stability: The Case of China and ASEAN+3, 26 pp	2006	Xiao Bing Feng
PEP-355 abstract/full-text	Technical Efficiency and Its Determinants in Gansu, West China, 25 pp	2006	Sizhong Sun
PEP-354 abstract/full-text	The making of Asia's first bilateral FTA: Origins and regional implications of the Japan-Singapore Economic Partnership Agreement, 30 pp	2006	Takashi Terada
PEP-353 abstract/full-text	US and EU Trade Policies in East Asia, 30 pp	2006	Peter Drysdale Christopher Findlay
PEP-352 abstract/full-text	The Japan?Australia Partnership in the Era of the East Asian Community: Can they Advance Together?, 30 pp	2005	Takashi Terada
PEP-351 abstract/full-text	Trade Policy at the Cross-Roads, 54 pp	2005	Bill Carmichael
PEP-350 abstract/full-text	East Asian Economic Integration and its Impact on Future Growth, 20 pp	2005	Philippa Dee
PEP-349 abstract/full-text	ASEAN Monetary Cooper Cooperation: ation: Issues and Pr Prospects, 30 pp	2005	Arief Ramayandi
PEP-348 abstract/full-text	Growth and Reform in the Korean Economy. Proceedings of the Conference on Growth and Reform in Korea: Implications for Australia, 88 pp	2005	Jung Soo Seo Jong-Soon Kang Heejin Lee and Sangjo Oh Russell D. Lansbury and Nick Wailes, Eugene Yun
PEP-347 abstract/full-text	Trade Policy at the Crossroads: The Indonesion Story, 42 pp	2005	David Vanzetti Greg McGuire Prabowo
PEP-346 abstract/full-text	Fiscal Rules and Targets and Public Expenditure Management: Enthusiasm in the 1990's and its Aftermath, 68 pp	2005	Hideaki Tanaka
PEP-345 abstract/full-text	The Australia-US Free Trade Agreement: An Assessment, 194 pp	2005	Philippa Dee
PEP-344 full-text	Regional Cooperation in East Asia and FTA Strategies, 24 pp	2005	Peter Drysdale
PEP-343 full-text	Taiwan's Role in the Economic Architecture of East Asia and the Pacific, 30 pp	2004	Peter Drysdale Xinpeng Xu
PEP-342 full-text	A Regional Bond Market for East Asia? The Evolving Political Dynamics of Regional Financial Cooperation, 28 pp	2004	Jennifer A. Amyx
PEP-341 full-text	East Asian Economic Integration: China's Perspective and Policy, 16 pp	2003	Xu Mingqi
PEP-340 full-text	Services Trade Liberalisation, 32 pp	2003	Motoshige Itoh Naoki Shimoi
PEP-339 full-text	The Enigma of Toyota's Competitive Advantage: Is Denso the Missing Link in the Academic Literature?, 38 pp	2003	Evelyn Anderson
PEP-338 full-text	An ASEAN Economic Community and ASEAN+3: How Do They Fit Together?, 9 pp	2003	Hadi Soesastro
PEP-337 full-text	Regional Approaches to Services Trade and Investment Liberalisation, 21 pp	2003	Jane Drake-Brockman
PEP-336 full-text	Beyond Free Trade Agreements: 21st Century Choices for East Asian Economic Cooperation, 33 pp	2003	Andrew Elek
PEP-335 full-text	Trading with Favourites: Free Trade Agreements in the Asia Pacific, 25 pp	2003	Christopher Findlay Haflah Piei Mari Pangestu
PEP-334 full-text	WTO Market Access Negotiations for Non-Agricultural Products, Doha Round: Implications for East Asia, 49 pp	2003	Kate Flowers Malcolm Bosworth
PEP-333 full-text	Regional Economic Integration in East Asia, 19 pp	2002	Jane Drake-Brockman Peter Drysdale
PEP-332 full-text	Strengthening Regional Financial Cooperation in East Asia, 35 pp	2002	Haruhiko Kuroda Masahiro Kawai
PEP-331 full-text	Moving Beyond Bilateralism? Japan and the Asian Monetary Fund, 22 pp	2002	Jennifer Amyx
PEP-330 full-text	Impact of APEC Trade Liberalisation on Sino-Australian Bilateral Trade, 27 pp	2002	Yu Sheng
PEP-329 full-text	Intra-Indistry Foreign Direct Investment and Intra-Industry Trade in Korea, 21 pp	2002	Jung-Soo Seo Jong-Soon Kang Deok-Ki Kim
PEP-328 full-text	The Effects of the Euro on Financial Markets, Activity and Structure, 13 pp	2002	Werner Studener
PEP-327 full-text	The Compatability of Capital Controls and Financial Development: A Selective Survey and Empirical Evidence, 26 pp	2002	Menzie D. Chinn
PEP-326 full-text	The Basel Process and Regional Harmonisation in Asia, 13 pp	2002	Shinichi Yoshikuni
PEP-325 full-text	Trends in Global Finance, Markets and Institutions: Some Implications for Developments in the Asian Region, 18 pp	2002	William E. Alexander
PEP-324 full-text	The IMF and East Asia: a Changing Regional Financial Architecture, 36 pp	2002	Gordon de Brouwer
PEP-323 full-text	APEC and the New Economy, 21 pp	2002	Sung-Hoon Park Mari Pangestu
PEP-322 full-text	East Asian Steel Projections for the 1990s Revisited, 21 pp	2003	Peter Drysdale Ben Garvey
PEP-321 full-text	Evidence of Shifts in the Determinants of Japanese Manufacturing Trade, 1970?95, 20 pp	2000	Peter Drysdale Ligang Song
PEP-320 full-text	The Services Content of Japanese Trade, 28 pp	2001	Kozo Kiyota
PEP-319 full-text	Changes in the Japanese Food Sector, 84 pp	2001	Motoshige Itoh and Yukiko Ito Ray Trewin Kozo Kiyota and Shujira Urata
PEP-318 full-text	The Changing Economic Performance and Political Significance of Japan's Agricultural Cooperatives, 31 pp	2001	Yoshihisa Godo
PEP-317 full-text	Bank and Corporate Restructuring in Crisis-Affected East Asia: From Systemic Collapse to Reconstruction, 45 pp	2001	Masahiro Kawai
PEP-316 full-text	Hot and Spicy: Ups and Downs on the Price Floor and Ceiling at Japanese Supermarkets, 48 pp	2001	Kenn Ariga Kenji Matsui Makoto Watanabe
PEP-315 full-text	China's Admittance to the WTO and Industrial Structural Adjustment in the World Economy, 20 pp	2001	Christopher Findlay
PEP-314 full-text	'Japan Inc.' in the Agricultural Sector: Reform or Regression?, 90 pp	2001	Aurelia George Mulgan
PEP-313 full-text	Encouraging 'Democracy' in a Cold War Climate: The Dual-Platform Policy Approach of Evatt and Labor Toward the Allied Occupation of Japan 1945?1949, 30 pp	2001	Christine de Matos
PEP-312 full-text	Managing Capital Flows: A Distortions Approach, 31 pp	2001	Dominic Wilson
PEP-311 full-text	Old Issues in New Regionalism, 36 pp	2000	Christopher Findlay
PEP-310 full-text	Trade Conflicts between Japan and the United States over Market Access: The Case of Automobiles and Automotive Parts, 32 pp	2000	Masao Satake
PEP-309 full-text	Subregional Trading Arrangements among APEC Economies: Manageing Diversity in the Asia Pacific, 34 pp	2000	Andrew Elek
PEP-308 full-text	Weathering the Asian Crisis: The Role of China, 37 pp	2000	Rod Tyers Yongzheng Yang
PEP-307 full-text	The Internationalisation of the Yen: Essential Issues Overlooked, 39 pp	2000	Tetsuji Murase
PEP-306 full-text	Japan's Local Governance at the Crossroads: The Third Wave of Reform, 21 pp	2000	Purnendra Jain
PEP-305 full-text	Some Key Issues for the East Asian Food Sector, 111 pp	2000	Masayoshi Homna Ray Trewin and Yiping Huan Malcolm Bosworth and Leanne Holmes Randy Stringer and Yoshihisa Godo
PEP-304 full-text	Food Embargoes against China: Their Likelihood and Potential Consequences, 21 pp	2000	Yongzheng Yang
PEP-303 full-text	Foreign Direct Investment and Intra-Industry Trade ? the Case of the United States, 17 pp	2000	Tina Yiping Chen
PEP-302 full-text	Implications of Recent Japanese Legal Reforms, 81 pp	2000	Akiyoshi Horiuchi Veronica Taylor Leon Wolff
PEP-301 full-text	Toward Reform and Transparency in Japanese Policymaking Processes, 76 pp	2000	J.A.A. Stockwin Jennifer Amyx Gregory Noble
PEP-300 full-text	A Way Forward for Japanese Agriculture, 90 pp	2000	Masayoshi Homna Ray Trewin Jennifer Amyx Allan Rae
PEP-299 full-text	Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in the World Economy 1951-1997, 61 pp	2000	Roger Farrell
PEP-298 full-text	The Genesis of APEC: Australian-Japan Political Initiatives, 51 pp	1999	Takashi Terada
PEP-297 full-text	Is Shutting Krugman's Liquidity Trap the Answer to Japan's Problems?, 34 pp	1999	Dominic Wilson
PEP-296 full-text	Japanese Government-Business Collaboration and the Operations of Japanese Corporations in Asia: A Telecommunications Case, 22 pp	1999	Hidetaka Yoshimatsu
PEP-295 full-text	Free Trade Champion? Australian Views of the US Trade Crusade against Japan, 25 pp	1999	Julia Lowell
PEP-294 full-text	Governance and Australian Financial Institutions, 20 pp	1999	Kevin Davis
PEP-293 full-text	The Changing Climate for Foreign Direct Investment into Japan, 56 pp	1999	Peter Drysdale Toshi Naito Ray Trewin Dominic Wilson
PEP-292 full-text	The Japanese Origins of PAFTAD: The Beginning of an Asian Pacific Economic Community, 19 pp	1999	Takashi Terada
PEP-291 full-text	Australia's Market Access Agenda Towards Japan, 23 pp	1999	Jamie Anderson
PEP-290 full-text	Perspectives on Japanese Investment, Employment and Management in Australia, 50 pp	1999	Peter Drysdale Roger Farrell
PEP-289 full-text	Predicting banking crises: Japan's financial crisis in international comparison, 23 pp	1999	Michael Hutchison Kathleen McDill
PEP-288 full-text	Japan's financial reform, 38 pp	1999	Hugh Patrick Takatoshi Ito
PEP-287 full-text	International Trade and Environmental Policy: How Effective is 'Eco-Dumping'?, 25 pp	1999	Xinpeng Xu
PEP-286 full-text	Open Regionalism going Global: APEC and the New Transatlantic Economic Partnership, 31 pp	1998	Andrew Elek
PEP-285 full-text	Realism and Postwar US Trade Policy, 39 pp	1998	John Kunkel
PEP-284 full-text	Attracting FDI: Australian Government Investment Promotion in Japan, 1983–96, 20 pp	1998	Jamie Anderson
PEP-283 full-text	The Multi-Function Polis 1987?97: an International Failure or Innovative Local Project?, 27 pp	1998	Paul Parker
PEP-282 full-text	Organisation, Motivations and Case Studies of Japanese Direct Investment in Real Estate 1985?94, 60 pp	1998	Roger Farrell
PEP-281 full-text	Japan's Approach to Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, 12 pp	1998	Peter Drysdale
PEP-280 full-text	The Politics of Telecommunications Reform in Japan, 28 pp	1998	Hidetaka Yoshimatsu
PEP-279 full-text	Sustainability of Growth in the Korean Manufacturing Sector, 33 pp	1998	Chang-Soo Lee
PEP-278 full-text	Export Performance of Environmentally Sensitive Goods: A Global Perspective?, 24 pp	1998	Xinpeng Xu
PEP-277 full-text	Modelling Manufactured Exports: Evidence for Asian Newly Industrialising Economies, 16 pp	1998	Francis In Pasquale Sgro Jai-Hyung Yoon
PEP-276 full-text	Laos in the ASEAN Free Trade Area: Trade, Revenue and Investment Implications, 28 pp	1998	Jayant Menon
PEP-275 full-text	Globalisation, 18 pp	1998	Heinz Arndt
PEP-274 abstract/full-text	The WTO and APEC: What role for China?, 24 pp	1997	Stuart Harris
PEP-273 full-text	The APEC Air Transport Schedule, 21 pp	1997	Christopher Findlay
PEP-272 abstract/full-text	Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in Real Estate 1985?1994, 53 pp	1997	Roger Farrell
PEP-271 abstract/full-text	China and East Asia Trade Policy,Volume IV, Trade Reform and Liberalisation in China, pp	1997	Yang Shengming Zhong Chuanshu and Yongzheng Yang Feng Lei and Yiping Huang Pei Changhong
PEP-270 abstract/full-text	The Politics of Economic Reform in Japan, 200 pp	1997	T.J. Pempel Tony Warren Aurelia George Mulgan S. Hayden Lesbirel
PEP-269 abstract/full-text	Diplomatic Strategies: The Pacific Islands and Japan, 38 pp	1997	Sandra Tarte
PEP-268 abstract/full-text	Interest Parity Conditions as Indicators of Financial Integration in East Asia, 71 pp	1997	Gordon de Brouwer
PEP-267 abstract/full-text	Consensus in Conflict: Competing Conceptual Structures and the Changing Nature of Japanese Politics in the Postwar Era, 34 pp	1997	Lindy Edwards
PEP-266 abstract/full-text	The Role of Foreign Pressure (Gaiatsu) in Japan?s Agricultural Trade Liberalisation, 66 pp	1997	Aurelia George Mulgan
PEP-265 full-text	The Transformation in the Political Economy of China?s Economic Relations with Japan in the Era of Reform, 23 pp	1997	Dong Dong Zhang
PEP-264 abstract/full-text	Economic Relations Across the Strait: Interdependence or Dependence?, 43 pp	1997	Heather Smith Stuart Harris
PEP-263 abstract/full-text	Has Japan Been ?Opening-Up??: Empirical Analytics of Trade Patterns, 30 pp	1997	Jayant Menon
PEP-262 abstract/full-text	Postwar Private Consumption Patterns of Japanese Households: The Role of Consumer Durables, 30 pp	1996	Atsushi Maki
PEP-261 abstract/full-text	East Asia and Eastern Europe Trade Linkages and Issues, 37 pp	1996	Jocelyn Horne
PEP-260 abstract/full-text	National Choice, 13 pp	1996	Wang Gungwu
PEP-259 abstract/full-text	Australia?s Export Performance in East Asia, 47 pp	1996	Peter Drysdale Weiguo Lu
PEP-258 abstract/full-text	Public Infrastructure and Regional Economic Development: Evidence from China, 30 pp	1996	Weiguo Lu
PEP-257 abstract/full-text	Regional Variations in Diets in Japan, 30 pp	1996	Paul Riethmuller Ruth Stroppiana
PEP-256 abstract/full-text	Japanese FDI in Australia in the 1990s: Manufacturing, Financial Services and Tourism, 37 pp	1996	Stephen Nicholas David Merrett Greg Whitwell William Purcell with Sue Kimberley
PEP-255 abstract/full-text	From Osaka to Subic: APEC?s Challenges for 1996, 41 pp	1996	Andrew Elek
PEP-254 abstract/full-text	Nafta, The Americas, Afta and Cer: Reinforcement or competition for APEC , 24 pp	1996	Richard H. Snape
PEP-253 abstract/full-text	Changes in East Asian Food Consumption: Some Implications for Australian Irrigated Agriculture, 35 pp	1996	Philip Taylor Christopher Findlay
PEP-252 abstract/full-text	East Asia restored, Korea restored, 16 pp	1996	H. E. Byong Hyon Kwon
PEP-251 abstract/full-text	Intra-Industry Trade and the ASEAN Free Trade Area, 28 pp	1996	Jayant Menon
PEP-250 abstract/full-text	China and East Asia Trade Policy, Volume III, China and the World Trade System, 220 pp	1995	Peter Drysdale and Ligang Song Ross Garnaut and Yiping Huang Zhang Xiaoguang and Peter G. Warr Shiji Zhao
PEP-249 abstract/full-text	China and East Asia Trade Policy, Volume II, Regional Economic Integration and Cooperation, 161 pp	1995	Kym Anderson and Richard Snape P.J. Lloyd Yun-Wing Sung Jiann-Chyuan Wang
PEP-248 abstract/full-text	China and East Asia Trade, Policy Volume I, East Asia Beyond the Uruguay Round, 25 pp	1995	Kym Anderson Richard Snape Hadi Soesastro Robert McDougall and Rod Tyers