Trade Costs, Infrastructure and Trade Development in Asia'

Held on 13th and 14th January 2010 at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia.

The Conference includes The Boustead Annual Globalisation Lecture by Professor David Greenaway, Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Economics, University of Nottingham.

• View photos
• View Presentation

and also The World Economy Asia Lecture by Professor Masahiro Kawai, Asian Development Bank Institute.

• View photos
• View Presentation

• View Conference programme
• View Conference photos

Papers Presented

• Douglas Brooks
  Asia's Melting Trade Costs
• Prabir De 
  Trade Costs in Asia
• Wai Heng Loke 
  Trade Costs in Malaysia: Issue and Challenges
• Fabrice Defever
  Contract Enforcement and International Trade
• Chris Milner 
  Trade Costs and Trade Composition: Multi-Country and Product Evidence on Sources of Comparative Advantage
• Hea-Jung Hyun
  Trade Openness and Vertical Integration: Evidence from Korean Firm-level Data
• Chang Liu
  Financial Crisis and FDI's Interest in China's Hinterland: A Quest for Soft Environmental Factors
• Jai Mah
  Special and Differential Treatment of Developing Countries Regarding Export Promotion Policies under the WTO
• Nao Ijiri 
  Air Transport and International Trade: The Case of Japanese Exports
• Rasyad Parinduri 
  Road to Prosperity: The Effect of Transportation Infrastructure on Inter-village Trade
• Shandre Thangavelu
  Non-Tariff Barriers, Integration and Export Growth in ASEAN
• Joseph Alba 
  Effects of Hub-and-Spoke Trade Agreements on Trade: A Panel Data Analysis
• Jay Menon
  Regional Economic Impacts of Cross-Border Infrastructure: A General Equilibrium Application to Thailand and Lao PDR