Analysis, commentary and modeling on trade policy options for the Asia-Pacific region, based on research by Peter A. Petri, Michael G. Plummer, Fan Zhai and other scholars.
Recent entries examine the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreements, including enlargements that would include other economies. Earlier entries examined the Trans-Pacific Partnership and variants.
Results are derived with a simulation model built in 2012 and updated in 2016. (This model is available on the Peterson Institute website.) We gratefully acknowledge support from the East-West Center, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Asia-Pacific Center of the Brandeis International Business School, and for specific projects from The World Bank and UNDP.
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