MICHAEL GEORGE PLUMMER

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CURRENT POSITIONS:

2014 to present Director, the Johns Hopkins University, SAIS Europe

2008 to present Eni Chair of International Economics, The Johns Hopkins

University, SAIS

2001 to present Professor of International Economics, the Johns Hopkins

University, SAIS

PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

2010 to 2012 Head, Development Division, Organisation for Economic

Cooperation and Development (OECD) (on leave from Johns

Hopkins University)

1998 to 2001 Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure), Brandeis

University

1994 to 2001 Director, Lemberg MA Program and Director, MSF Program,

International Business School, Brandeis University

1996 to 1997 Associate Professor (Research), Research Institute for Economics

and Business Administration, Kobe University, Japan (on leave

from Brandeis University)

1993 to 1997 Assistant Professor of Economics, Brandeis University

1988 to 1993 Research Fellow, Institute for Economic Development and

Policy, East-West Center

1987 to 1988 Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Albion College

EDUCATION Ph.D., Economics, Michigan State University, March 1988

M.A., Economics, Michigan State University, June 1984

Post-graduate Diploma, SAIS-Bologna, Johns Hopkins

University, June 1982

B.A., Economics and B.A., French, University of Michigan, Ann

Arbor, December 1980

LANGUAGES Fluency in French and Italian; intermediate skills in Spanish;

elementary skills in Japanese

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ACADEMIC AWARDS, APPOINTMENTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2015-present Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, Journal of Asian Economics (Elsevier)

2002-present Macroeconomic Policy Adviser, African Capacity Building Foundation

(Harare, Zimbabwe)

2005-present Fellow, Council of Fellows, East Asian Economic Association

2006 to present Senior Fellow (non-resident), East-West Center

2007 to 2015 President, American Committee for Asian Economic Studies

2007 to 2015 Executive Board Member, Allied Social Science Association (ASSA)

2001-2006 Board Member (Economics), Peer Review Committee Member,

Fulbright Senior Specialists Program

2000 Sabbatical Research Award, Ministry of Education, Government of

Spain (Universidad de Alicante)

2000 Fulbright Chair in Economics (Viterbo, Italy), Distinguished Chair

Program, Fulbright Commission, spring-summer

1994 to 1995 Pew Fellow in International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of

Government, Harvard University

1994 Professor of the Year Award, M.A. Program in International

Economics and Finance, Brandeis University

EDITORIAL AND ACADEMIC BOARDS

2007-2015 Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Asian Economics (Elsevier)

(currently Editor-in-Chief Emeritus)

2001-2015 Editorial Board Member, World Development

2007-present International Advisory Board member, Journal of Southeast Asian

Economics (formerly ASEAN Economic Bulletin)

2008-present Comitato Scientifico (Scientific Committee), Rimini Centre for

Economic Analysis

2011-present Research Associate, ASEAN Studies Center, American University

2007-present Associate Editor, Asian Economic Journal

2006-present Associate Editor, Kiel Institute of World Economics, E-Journal

1995 to 2007 Book Review Editor, Journal of Asian Economics

DISTINGUISHED LECTURES AND HIGH-LEVEL PRESENTATIONS

(other conferences/seminars are included at end of document)

* Keynote Speaker, “The Future of Mega-regionalism and Its Implications for ASEAN,”

Trade, Industrialization and Structural Reforms in ASEAN, National University of

Singapore and CVSEAS, 9-10 January, 2017, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

* Keynote Panel Speaker, “Future Challenges to Asia-Pacific Economic Integration,”

Morgan Stanley Fifteenth Annual Asia Pacific Summit, Singapore, 17 November, 2016.

* Panel Participant, “The Changing Political Economy of Globalization,” Joint Meeting of

the United Nations General Assembly Second Committee (Economics and Finance) and

the United Nations Economic and Social Committee, 7 October, 2016, New York (with

Thomas Friedman).

* Keynote Address, “Megaregionalism and Developing Economies,” New Approaches to

Economic Challenges,” OECD, Paris, 4 May, 2016 (video at:

http://video.oecd.org/2139/or/NAEC-Mega-regionalism-and-Developing-Economies-M-

Plummer.html).

* Keynote Address, “Making the ASEAN Economic Community a Reality,” ASEAN

Forum 2015, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, University of Sydney, 2 October, 2015,

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Sydney, Australia.

* Keynote Address, “Realizing the ASEAN Economic Community,” ASEAN-Norwegian

Business Conference (with Minister of Trade and Industry Maeland and

ASEAN Secretary General Le Luong Minh), 15 June, 2015, Oslo, Norway.

* Inaugural Bank Negara Debate participant, Regionalism versus Multilateralism,

organized by Dr. Zeti Aktar Aziz, Governor, Bank Negara and OMFIF, 20 March, 2015,

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

* The 2014 Seiji F. Naya Lecture, Department of Economics, University of Hawai’i,

“Conflict in East Asia: Economics to the Rescue?,” 6 October, 2014, Honolulu.

* Keynote Address, The Asia Foundation, “ASEAN Economic Cooperation: Prospects and

Challenges for Myanmar,” 10 March, 2014, Yangon, Myanmar.

* Distinguished Lecture, Distinguished Speaker Series, Asian Development Bank Institute,

“A Vision of Global Free Trade? The New Regionalism and the ‘Building Blocs’

Debate,” Tokyo, 30 July, 2013.

* Invited presentation to the Chief Negotiators of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), 11th

Round of TPP Negotiations, Melbourne, Australia, 4 March, 2012.

* Distinguished Speaker, Singapore Economic Review Conference 2011, Singapore, 4-6

August, 2011.

* Distinguished Lecturer, Distinguished Lecture Series, Asian Development Bank Institute,

“Realizing the ASEAN Economic Community,” Tokyo, 18 October, 2010.

* Keynote Presentation, High-Level Parliamentary Seminar, Paris, OECD, 2 November,

2010.

* Keynote Presentation, Columbia University Seminar on Modern Southeast Asia,

Columbia University, 5 November, 2009.

* Keynote Presentation, 41st ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting, 12-13 August, 2009,

“Realizing the ASEAN Economic Community: A Comprehensive Assessment,” and to

Senior Economic Officials meeting, Bangkok.

* Distinguished Lecturer, Distinguished Lecture Series, Asian Development Bank

Institute, “Best Practices in Regional Trading Agreements,” Tokyo, 19 March, 2008.

* Keynote Presentation, “Recommendations to the ASEAN Consultative Committee on

Investment Regarding the Future of the ASEAN Investment Area,” Meeting of the

ASEAN Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), 28-30 March, 2007, Hanoi.

* Keynote Presentation, “U.S. Strategies for Free Trade Agreements in the Asia Pacific,"

Congressional Study Group on the Asia Pacific Economy, 12 May, 2006, Washington,

DC.

* Keynote Presentation, “Towards Win-Win Regionalism in Asia,” Brainstorming Session

on Free-Trade Areas, Office of Regional Economic Integration, Asian Development

Bank, Manila, 20 March, 2006 (my background research study was discussed by Mari

Pangetsu, Minister of Trade, Indonesia, and Narongchai Akrasanee, former Thai Minister

of Commerce).

* Keynote Presentation, Inaugural Session of the Regional Economic Integration Seminar

Series, Asian Development Bank, 27 November, 2005, Manila.

* Keynote Presentation, ASEAN Senior Economic Officials Meeting, The Fifth SEOM-

AUSTR, 16 March, 2005, Makati City, the Philippines.

* Keynote Presentation, INR/US State Department Workshop on US-ASEAN Relations,

11 March, 2005, Washington, DC.

* Keynote Presentation, “Economics of the Enterprise for ASEAN Initiative: Stakes for

Indonesia,” Ministry of Trade, Government of Indonesia, January 2004.

* Keynote Speaker, “The Impact and Coherence of OECD Country Policies on Asian

Developing Economies,” Conference, OECD Development Center and Ministry of

Finance, Tokyo, Japan, 13-14 November, 2003.

* Keynote Presentation, High Level Expert Group Meeting, “Strategies in Developing an

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ECO Trade Agreement,” Almaty, Kazakhstan, September 2002.

* Keynote Presentation, High-level Meeting on Vietnam’s International Economic

Integration Program, Government of Vietnam, Ha Noi, Vietnam, 27 February, 2002.

PUBLICATIONS

Authored/Co-authored Books

* ASEAN Economic Cooperation and Integration: Progress, Challenges and Future

Directions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, March 2015) (with C. S. Yue).

* Connecting South and Southeast Asia (Manila: ADB and ADBI, April 2015), pp. 294

(co-authored with P. Morgan and G. Wignaraja).

* ASEAN Centrality and the ASEAN-US Economic Relationship, Policy Series 69,

(Honolulu: East-West Center, March 2014) (with P. Petri).

* The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Asia-Pacific Integration: A Quantitative Assessment,

(Peterson Institute for International Economics, November 2012) (with P. Petri and F.

Zhai).

* Methodology for Impact Assessment of Free Trade Agreements (Manila: Asian

Development Bank, 2010) (with D. Cheong and S. Hamanaka).

* ASEAN Economic Development and Integration: Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and

Finance (Singapore: World Scientific and Imperial College Press, July 2009).

* The Global Economic Crisis and its Implications for Asian Economic Cooperation, East-

West Center Policy Studies #55 (Honolulu and Singapore: East-West Center and ISEAS,

November 2009).

* The Economics of the Enterprise for ASEAN Initiative (Singapore: Institute of Southeast

Asian Studies, November 2005) (with S. Naya).

* Economic Integration and Development: Has Regionalism Delivered for Developing

Countries? (London: Edward Elgar, 2002) (with M. Kreinin).

* Economic Integration and Asia: The Dynamics of Regionalism in Europe, North

America and the Asia Pacific (London: Edward Elgar, 2000) (Collection of Published

Articles, with M. Kreinin)

* The ASEAN-U.S. Initiative: Assessment and Recommendations for Improved Economic

Relations, (ISEAS, March 1989) (with S.Naya, N.Akrasanee, and K. Sandhu)

Forthcoming 2018:

* Emerging International Economic Issues in Asia, Studies in International

Economics, coordinated by Robert Stern (Singapore: Imperial College Press and World

Scientific, forthcoming 2016).

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.).

* “The Political Economy of Regional Economic Integration: The Challenges for

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Emerging Markets,” Special Issue, Economic Change and Restructuring, Vol. 41, No. 4

and Vol. 42, No. 1-2, 2009 (with R. Benini) (Springer).

* International Economic Integration and Asia (Singapore: World Scientific, Fall 2006)

(with E. Jones, eds.).

* Policy Coherence in East Asia (Paris: OECD, December 2005, et.al., eds.). Translated

into Japanese, 2006.

* “Global Economic Regionalism and Asia: The Implications of Intra- and Extra-Regional

Accords,” Journal of Asian Economics, Vol. 16 (1), Spring 2005 (with E. Jones, Guest

Editors).

* The World Trade Organization: Legal, Economic, and Political Analysis (Springer, New

York, May 2005) (with P. Macrory and A. Appleton, eds.), 3 Volumes:

Volume I: Background (pp. 1667).

Volume II: Economic, Political, and Regional Issues (pp. 859).

Volume III: Country Reports (pp. 591).

* Empirical Methods in International Economics (London: Edward Elgar, 2004), ed.

* “EU-Asia: Links and Lessons,” Journal of Asian Economics, December 2003 (with E.

Jones, Guest Editors).

* Asia-Pacific Economic Linkages (London: Elsevier, 1999) (with M. Kreinin and S. Abe,

eds.).

* “New Approaches to Regional Economic Integration in ASEAN,” Special 30th

Anniversary Issue, ASEAN Economic Bulletin, November 1997 (with S. Naya, eds.).

* “Symposium: Vietnam and Its Economic Development,” Journal of Asian Economics,

Vol. 6, No. 3, Fall 1995 (Coordinating Editor).

* OECD and ASEAN Economies: The Challenge of Policy Coherence (Paris: OECD

Development Centre, 1995) (with K. Fukasaku and J. Tan, eds.).

* Emerging Patterns of Direct Foreign Investment in China: Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong

(London: ME Sharpe, 1994) (with S. LaCroix and K. Lee, 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).

Available at: https://piie.com/publications/working-papers/going-it-alone-asia-pacific-

regional-trade-agreements-without-united .

* “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 (Available at:

http://www.iie.com/publications/interstitial.cfm?ResearchID=2906). 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. Available at:

http://pubdocs.worldbank.org/pubdocs/publicdoc/2016/1/847071452034669879/Global-

Economic-Prospects-January-2016-Implications-Trans-Pacific-Partnership-

Agreement.pdf .

* “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,

Working Paper available at: http://www.adbi.org/working-

paper/2014/08/08/6373.economic.implications.asian.integration/

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* “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. Available at:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2513839

* “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. Available at:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2438725 and

http://ewcbookstore.org/NewDirections/NewDirections-01frontmatter.pdf.

Cited by the Economist Magazine (May 30, 2015) as the most influential CGE study

on the Transpacific Partnership. http://www.economist.com/cge15

* “The Economic Impact of the ASEAN Economic Community: An Applied General

Equilibrium Approach,” Asian Economic Journal, Vol. 26 (2), 2012, pp. 93-118 (with

Petri and Zhai).

* “The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Asia-Pacific Integration: Policy Implications,” Policy

Brief, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Number PB12-16, June 2012, pp.

1-10 (with P. Petri).

* “FDI Effects of ASEAN Integration,” Région et Développement, No. 29-2009, Spring

2009, pp. 31-48 (with D. Cheong).

* “Effects of Regional Integration on FDI: An Empirical Approach,” Journal of Asian

Economics, Vol. 19, Nos. 5-6, October/December 2008, pp. 447-454 (with M. Kreinin).

* “Best Practices in Regional Trading Agreements: An Application to Asia,” The World

Economy, Vol. 30, Issue 12, December 2007, pp. 1771-1796.

* “The Post Crisis Sequencing of Economic Integration in Asia: Trade as a Complement to

a Monetary Future,” Economie Intérnationale, 107 (2006), pp. 59-85 (with G.

Wignaraja).

* “Regional Groupings, Discrimination, and the Erosion of Preferences: Effects of EU

Enlargement on the Mediterranean Basin,” Journal of International Trade and Economic

Development, Vol. 16, Issue 2, 2007, pp. 213-230 (with M. Kreinin)

* “Bond Market Development and Integration in ASEAN,” International Journal of

Finance and Economics, Vol. 10, 2005, pp. 133-142 (with R. Click).

* “Stock Market Integration in ASEAN,” Journal of Asian Economics, 16.1 (2005), pp. 5-

28 (with R. Click).

* “Dynamics of Business Cycles in Asia: Differences and Similarities,” Review of

Development Economics, Vol. 7, Issue 3, August 2003, pp. 462-477 (with S. Kim and A.

Kose).

* “EU and ASEAN: Real Integration and Lessons in Financial Cooperation,” The World

Economy, Vol. 25, No. 10, November 2002, pp. 1469-1500.

* “Understanding the Asian Contagion,” Asian Economic Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2, August,

2001, pp. 111-138 (with S. Kim and A. Kose).

* “The Determinants of U.S. Investment Abroad: Evidence of Trade-Investment

Linkages,” in Lee, Hiro and David Roland-Holst (eds.), Economic Development and

Cooperation in the Pacific Basin: Trade, Investment, and Environmental Issues

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999) (with P. Petri).

* “Corporate Alliances and Foreign Investment in Industrializing Asia,” in Gavin Boyd

and Alan Rugman (eds.), Economic Integration in the Pacific (London: Edward Elgar,

1999).

* “Ex Post Estimates of the Effects of the European Single Market Programme on the

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Exports of Developing Countries,” ASEAN Economic Bulletin, Vol. 15, No. 2, August

1998, pp. 206-214 (with M. Kreinin).

* “‘Natural’ Economic Blocs: An Alternative Formulation,” International Trade Journal,

Vol. VIII, No.2, Summer 1994, pp. 193-205 (with M. Kreinin).

* “Structural Adjustment and Regional Integration in East Asia,” International Economic

Journal, Summer 1994 (with M. Kreinin).

* “Economic Effects of North American Economic Integration on Australia and New

Zealand,” Journal of Economic Integration, 9 (1), March 1994, pp. 1-28; and in

University of Adelaide Working Papers, December 1992 (with M. Kreinin).

* “The Effects of Economic Integration in Industrial Countries on ASEAN and the NIEs,”

World Development, Vol. 20, No. 9, September 1992, pp. 1345-1366 (with M. Kreinin);

followed by: “A Reply to Richard Pomfret's Comment on the Effects of Economic

Integration,” World Development, Vol. 21, No. 9, September 1993, p. 1439.

* “Competitive Advantages, Two-Way Foreign Investment, and Capital Accumulation in

Korea,” Asian Economic Journal, Vol. VI, No. 2, July 1992, pp. 93-113 (with K. Lee).

* “Ex-post Empirical Estimates of the Second Enlargement: The Case of Greece,”

Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, Vol. 127, No.1, March 1991, pp.171-182.

* “Efficiency Effects of the Accessions of Spain and Portugal to the EC,” Journal of

Common Market Studies, Vol. XXIX, No.3, March 1991, pp. 317-325.

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.

* “Market and Policy Determinants of FDI in the ECO Region,” Transition Studies

Review, Vol. 36, No. XI, January 2004, pp. 121-138.

* “Structural Change in a Globalized Asia: Macro Trends and U.S. Policy Challenges,”

Journal of Asian Economics, Vol. 14, No. 2, April 2003, pp. 243-281.

* “Motives for Japanese DFI: Survey, Analysis, and Implications in Light of the Asian

Crisis,” Journal of Asian Economics, Spring 2000 (with M. Kreinin and S. Abe).

* “Anticipatory Effects of Regional Integration: The Case of ASEAN,” Global Economy

Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January-March 2000, pp. 97-111. (with M. Kreinin).

* “New Developments in the Theory of Economic Integration with Applications to

ASEAN,” ASEAN Economic Bulletin, Vol. 14, No. 2, November 1997, pp. 202-21.

* “APEC and its Implications for Papua New Guinea,” Pacific Economic Bulletin

(Australian National University) November 1997.

* “U.S. Interests and Asia-Pacific Cooperation,” Journal of Philippine Development, Vol.

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XXIII, No. 41, First Semester 1996, pp. 123-148 (with P. Petri).

* “Regional Economic Integration and Dynamic Policy Reform: The ‘Special’ Case of

Developing Asia,” Asia-Pacific Development Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, June 1997.

* “An Analytical Survey of Vietnam's External Policy Challenges,” Journal of Asian

Economics, Vol. 6, No. 3, Fall 1995, pp. 327-349.

* “Economic Implications of NAFTA for ASEAN Members: A Disaggregated Approach,”

ASEAN Economic Bulletin, Vol. 11, No. 2, Nov. 1994, pp. 158-175 (with P. Imada).

* “The Political Economy of the Second Enlargement of the EC: Implications for Partner

and Nonpartner Developing Countries,” Journal of Economics and International

Relations, Vol.4, No.1, Spring 1991, pp. 1-20.

* “Singapore and the Economic Development of ASEAN,” Singapore Economic Review,

Vol. XXXVI, No.2, October 1991, pp. 57-67 (with S. Naya).

* “ASEAN Economic Cooperation in the New International Economic Environment,”

ASEAN Economic Bulletin, Vol. 7, No. 3, March 1991, pp. 261-276 (with S. Naya).

* “Motives and Policies Affecting U.S. Direct Investment in ASEAN,” Asian Economic

Journal, Vol. IV, No. 2, September 1990; and Development and South-South

Cooperation, Vol. V., No. 9, December 1989, pp. 175-197 (with E. Ramstetter).

* “Japan’s Ascendancy as an ODA Power: Asian Perspectives,” Asian Survey, Vol. XXIX,

No.11, November 1989, pp. 1043-1056 (with B. Koppel).

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, Available at:

http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---asia/---ro-

bangkok/documents/publication/wcms_309610.pdf (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.

Available at: http://www.bruegel.org/publications/publication-detail/publication/824-

japan-and-the-eu-in-the-global-economy/

* “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).

* “The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Asia-Pacific Integration: A Quantitative

Assessment,” Working Paper published by Peterson Institute for International Economics

and the East-West Center, October 2011 (with P. Petri and F. Zhai).

* “Comparative Advantage and Structural Change: Toward a Complementary Policy

Regime,” Chapter 11 in Susan Stone and Przemyslaw Kowalski, Globalisation,

Comparative Advantage, and the Changing Dynamics of International Trade (Paris:

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OECD, October 2011).

* “The Theory and Modelling of Preferential Trading Arrangements,” Chapter 7 in

Mordechai Kreinin and Michael G. Plummer (eds.), Oxford Handbook of International

Commercial Policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 157-178.

* “Regional Monitoring of Capital Flows and Coordination of Financial Regulation:

Stakes and Options for Asia,” Chapter 8 in Kawai, Masahiro, Peter Morgan, and David

Mayes (eds.), Implications of the Financial Crisis for Financial Reform and Regulation

in Asia (London: Edward Elgar, 2012), pp. 157-176. Also: ADBI Working Paper 201.

Tokyo: Asian Development Bank Institute.

* “Indicators of Regional Trade and Investment Integration,” Chapter in Philippe de

Lombaerde, et.al., GARNET Handbook for Monitoring and Analysis of Regional

Integration (Abingdon: Routledge, 2011) (with L. Iapadre).

* “A Regional Framework for Inclusive, Balanced, Sustained Growth,” Chapter 1 in Peter

A. Petri, ed., Inclusive, Balanced Sustained Growth in the Asia-Pacific (Singapore:

ISEAS, 2010), pp. 1-48 (et.al.).

* “Southeast Asia: Achieving Sustained Growth”, Chapter 4 in Peter A. Petri, ed.,

Inclusive, Balanced, Sustained Growth in the Asia-Pacific (Singapore: ISEAS, 2010), pp.

78-95.

* “EU-Asia Free-trade Areas? Economic and Policy Considerations,” ADBI Working

Paper No. 255, December 2010, Available at:

http://www.adbi.org/files/2010.12.03.wp255.eu.asia.free.trade.areas.pdf

* “The ASEAN Economic Community and the European Experience,” Chapter 1 in K.

Hamada, B. Reszat and U.Volz (eds.), Toward Monetary and Financial Integration in

Asia (London: Edward Elgar, 2009).

* “Regionalism and Multilateralism: Crucial Issues in the Debate on RTAs,” Introduction

to, The Political Economy of Regional Economic Integration: The Challenges for

Emerging Markets, Special Issue, Economic Change and Restructuring, Vol. 41, No. 4

and Vol. 42, No. 1-2, 2009 (with R. Benini).

* “How (and Why) the United States Should Help to Build the ASEAN Economic

Community,” East-West Dialogue, Issue #2 (September 2008), East-West Center.

Commentaries by Scott Marciel (US Ambassador to ASEAN); Kishore Mahbubani

(former Singapore Ambassador to UN); and Chalongphob Sussangkarn (former Finance

Minister of Thailand).

* “Regionalizing Bilateral FTAs in Asia,” Chapter 3 in Fan Zhai (ed.), From Growth to

Convergence: Asia’s Next Two Decades (Palgrave MacMillan, 2008) (with F. Harrigan,

W. James, and Z. Fan).

* “Global Trade Balances: Are They Sustainable? Traditional and New Remedies,” Global

Horizons, Vol. 2, Issue 1 (Fall 2008), pp. 13-27 (with M. Kreinin).

* “Integrating Production,” Chapter 3 in, ADB, 2008, Emerging Asian Regionalism:

Partnership for Shared Prosperity (Manila, Asian Development Bank), pp. 58-105.

* “Integration Strategies for ASEAN: Alone, Together, or Together with Neighbors?”,

East-West Center Working Papers, Economics Series, November 2007, pp. 1-37.

* “Toward Win-Win Regionalism in Asia: Issues and Challenges in Forming Efficient

Trade Agreements, Asian Development Bank, Office of Regional Economic Integration,

Working Paper Series on Regional Economic Integration No. 5, pp. 1-57, Oct. 2006.

* “Separating the Apples from the Oranges in the Doha Trade Agenda: The Case of Postal

versus Express Delivery Services,” in A. Appleton, P. Macrory, and M. Plummer (eds.),

The World Trade Organization: Legal, Economic and Political Analysis (Springer, May

2005).

* “Economic Principles of International Trade,” in A. Appleton, P. Macrory, and M.

Plummer (eds.), The World Trade Organization: Legal, Economic and Political Analysis

(Springer, May 2005) (with M. Kreinin).

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* “Miracle, Crisis and Beyond,” Chapter 1 in Kiichiro Fukasaku, et.al., Policy Coherence

towards East Asia: Development Challenges for OECD Countries (Paris: OECD, 2005),

pp. 17-88; translated into Japanese, 2006.

* “On the Creation of an ASEAN Economic Community: Lessons from the EU and

Reflections on the Roadmap,” Chapter 3 in Hew, Denis (ed.), Roadmap for the ASEAN

Economic Community (Singapore: ISEAS, 2005).

* “Emerging Bilateral Free Trade Agreements in Northeast Asia: Building Blocs and

Stumbling Blocs,” Chapter 6 in Kim, Yoon Hyung and Chang Jae Lee (eds.),

Strengthening Economic Cooperation in Northeast Asia (Seoul: KIEP, 2004) pp. 163-

182.

* “Contagion or Simple Transmission of Business Cycles?” in Hooley, Richard and Jang-

Hee Yoo (eds.), The Post-Financial Crisis Challenges for Asian Industrialization (New

York: Elsevier, 2002), pp. 43-93 (with A. Kose and S. Kim).

* “Financial Stability in the APEC Region,” in Richard E. Feinberg and Ye Zhao (eds.),

Assessing APEC’s Progress: Trade, ECOTECH and Institutions (Singapore: ISEAS,

2001).

* “Economic and Policy Convergence in ASEAN: Malaysia and Thailand Compared,” in

Weber, Maria (ed.), Reforming Economic Systems in Asia (London: Edward Elgar, 2002)

(with B. Trivellato).

* “U.S. Direct Investment in ASEAN,” in Mirza, Hafiz and Kee Hwee Wee, Who Dares

Wins: The Strategy, Objectives and Performance of TNCs in the ASEAN Region (Edward

Elgar, 1999) (with R. McCulloch).

* “ASEAN and Institutional Nesting in the Asia-Pacific: Leading from behind in APEC,”

in Aggarwal, Vinod K. and Charles Morrison (eds.), APEC and Regime Creation in Asia

and the Pacific, St. Martin's Press, 1998.

* “Export and Direct Foreign Investment Links: A Three Country Comparison,” in

Kreinin, Mordechai E., Shigeyuki Abe and Michael G. Plummer (eds.), Asia-Pacific

Economic Links (London: Elsevier, 1999) (with M. Kreinin and S. Abe).

* “The Trade-Investment Nexus,” in Contrator, Farok (ed.), Economic Transformation in

Emerging Countries: The Role of Investment, Trade and Finance (London: Elsevier,

1998) (with M. Kreinin and S. Abe).

* “New Modes of Asian Regionalism,” in Fatemi, Kasrow (ed.), (Elsevier Press, 1998)

(with M. Kreinin and S. Abe).

* “Regional Cooperation in ASEAN and U.S. Direct Foreign Investment,” in Hooley,

Richard (ed.), (Greenwich: JAI Press, 1998) (with R. McCulloch).

* “The U.S. in the World Economy: Numerical and Policy Forecast to 2006,” in Toida,

Mitsuru, The Asia-Pacific Region in the Year 2005 (Tokyo: IDE, 1997) pp. 83-114 (with

G. Anderson).

* “Implications of the Asia-Europe Meeting for the World Trading System: An Issue-

Oriented Review,” Kobe Review of Economics and Business, 1996 Annual Review

(Kobe: Kobe University, 1997) pp. 1-23 (with S. Abe).

* “Evolutionary Integration,” in Hooley, Richard, Mari Pangetsu, Anwar Nasution, and Jan

Dutta (eds.), Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation: Theory and Policy (Greenwich: JAI

Press, 1996) (with P. Imada).

* "AFTA, NAFTA, and U.S. Interests," in Tan, Joseph (ed.), AFTA and Asia-Pacific

Cooperation in the 1990s (ISEAS: Singapore, 1995): 119-138 (with P. Imada).

* “Economic Regionalism in the Asia-Pacific and ASEAN Economic Development,” in

Fukasaku, Kiichiro Michael G. Plummer and Joseph Tan (eds.), OECD and ASEAN

Economics: The Challenge of Policy Coherence (Paris: OECD, 1995).

* “ASEAN and Economic Integration in the Americas,” in Fukasaku, Kiichiro, Michael G.

Plummer and Joseph Tan (eds.), OECD and the ASEAN Economies: The Challenge of

Policy Coherence (Paris: OECD, 1995).

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* “Direct Foreign Investment in China: An Introduction,” in LaCroix, Sumner, Michael G.

Plummer and Kuen Lee (eds.), China and the Asian NIEs: Emerging Patterns of Direct

Foreign Investment (London: ME Sharpe, 1994).

* “Implications of Economic Integration in Europe for the Asian Industrializing Region,”

in Toida, Mitsuru and Daisuke Hiratsuka (eds.), EC1992 and the Pacific Asian

Industrializing Region (Tokyo: Institute of Developing Economies, 1994)

* “Patterns of Direct Foreign Investment and the Changing Division of Labor in the Asia-

Pacific Region,” in Eric D. Ramstetter (ed.), Direct Foreign Investment in Asia’s

Developing Economies and Structural Change in the Asia-Pacific Region (Boulder:

Westview Press, 1991) (with E. Ramstetter).

Blogs, Other Media, Book and Article Reviews

* “US-ASEAN Relations in a Changing Global Context,” Panorama, Issue 1/2017, pp.

139-151. Available at: http://www.kas.de/wf/doc/23559-1442-2-30.pdf .

* “Asian Regionalism, Trade and What Might Have Been,” SAIS Magazine, Summer

2017, pp. 14-18.

* Comments, “How Restrictive Are ASEAN’s Rules of Origin?,” Asian Economic Papers,

15 (3), Fall 2016, pp. 21-25.

* “The International Trade Commission Report on the TPP: Solid but Too Cautious?,”

Peterson Institute for International Economics, 19 May, 2016 (Available at:

https://piie.com/blogs/trade-investment-policy-watch/international-trade-commission-

report-tpp-solid-too-cautious).

* “The Economics of the Transpacific Partnership: Distributional Impact,” Vox

(CEPR Policy Portal), 30 April, 2016 (Available at: http://voxeu.org/article/economics-

tpp-winners-and-losers). Downloads: 20,175 as of October 2017.

* “Fighting the Good Fight for TPP,” Nikkei Asian Review, 6 October, 2015. Available at:

http://asia.nikkei.com/Viewpoints/Perspectives/Fighting-the-good-fight-for-TPP

* “What Does the Greek Crisis Mean for the AEC?,” East Asia Forum, 6 October, 2015,

Available at: http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2015/10/06/what-does-the-greek-crisis-

mean-for-the-aec/

* “Regional Transport Infrastructure: Mapping Projects to Bridge South Asia and

Southeast Asia,” ADB Briefs, No.43, September 2015, pp. 1-11 (with G. Wignaraja and

P. Morgan). Available at:

http://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/174393/regional-transport-

infrastructure.pdf .

* “The Trans-Pacific Partnership: More than a Trade Agreement,” RealClearMarkets, 24

June, 2015. Available at: www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2015/06/24/the_trans-

pacific_partnership_is_about_much_more_than_trade_101718.html

* “How $78 billion Can Make South, Southeast Asia Prosper,” Nikkei Asian Review, 27

May, 2015. Available at: http://asia.nikkei.com/Viewpoints/Perspectives/How-73B-can-

make-South-Southeast-Asia-prosper (with G. Wiganaraja and P. Morgan). Summarized

in Nikkei Asian Review Magazine, 18 June, 2015, available at:

http://asia.nikkei.com/magazine/20150618-PRICE-OF-

ADMISSION/Viewpoints/Wignaraja-Morgan-and-Plummer-How-73-billion-can-make-

South-Southeast-Asia-prosper.

* “The Case for Connecting South Asia and Southeast Asia,” Asia Pathways, ADBI, 25

May, 2015 (with G. Wignaraja and P. Morgan). Available at: http://www.asiapathways-

adbi.org/2015/05/the-case-for-connecting-south-asia-and-southeast-asia/

* “Cutting through the Noisy TPP Debate,” editorial published in The Honoulu Star-

Advertiser 12, April 2015; and the Huffington Post Blog, 15 April, 2015

(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eastwest-center/cutting-through-the-

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noisy_b_7075100.html).

* “The TPP and China-US Economic Relations,” APEC Currents, March 2015, Available

at: http://us9.campaign-

archive1.com/?u=6fc18e2d4abd250eb5f7b2445&id=cde6b80ebc&e=abb157e48b (with

P. Petri).

* “Potential Gains from Closer Cooperation between South Asia and Southeast Asia,” Asia

Pathways, ADBI, 4 March, 2015 (with Wignaraja, Morgan and Zhai). Available at:

http://www.asiapathways-adbi.org/2015/03/potential-gains-from-closer-cooperation-

between-south-asia-and-southeast-asia/ .

* “Asia-Pacific Regional Integration: Economic Effects and Implications for the Global

Trading System,” ECONBROWSER, Guest Contribution, 5 June, 2014. Available at:

http://econbrowser.com/archives/2014/06/guest-contribution-asia-pacific-regional-

integration .

* “Reasons to be Optimistic about the AEC Process,” Asian International Economist

Network Blog, ADB, March 2014, http://www.aienetwork.org/blog/59/reasons-to-be-

optimistic-about-the-asean-economic-community-process .

* “Why Asia-Pacific Holds the Key to Global Free Trade,” Economy Watch, December 13,

2013. Available at: http://www.economywatch.com/features/global-free-trade-asia-

regionalism-multilateralism.13-12.html .

* “South-South Trade: Transforming the Global Economy?” SAISPHERE 2013-2014, pp.

32-36.

* “A Vision of Global Free Trade? The New Regionalism and the ‘Building Blocs’

Debate,” Asia Pathways, ADB Institute, 10 December, 2013.

* “Aid for Trade: Enhancing Effectiveness after the Crisis via Regional Aid for Trade,”

International Trade Forum Magazine, United Nations International Trade Centre, 1

October, 2013 (with W. Hynes).

* “To Revitalize Japan, Start with Trade Policy,” invited contribution to NIKKEI (in

Japanese and English), 24 January, 2013 (with P. Petri).

* “Assessing the Impact of the ASEAN Economic Community,” OSIPP Discussion Paper:

DP-2011-E-002, March 23, 2011 (with H. Lee).

* Book Review in: Asia-Pacific Economic Literature, on Asia’s New Regionalism and

Global Role: Agenda for the East Asia Summit, N. Kumar, K. Kesavapany, and Y.

Chaocheng (eds.), (Singapore: ISEAS, 2007).

* Book Review in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, on International Trade

and East Asia, Takatoshi Ito and Andrew Rose (eds.), (Chicago: NBER and University

of Chicago Press), Vol. 57, No. 1, October 2008.

* Book Review in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, on Trade

and Migration in the Modern World, Carl Mosk (London: Routledge, 2005), 2007.

* “Trade and Investment in Asia Ten Years after the Crisis,” East Magazine, November

2007.

* Book Review in: International Journal of Finance and Economics, on Too Sensational:

On the Choice of Exchange Rate Regimes, W. Max Corden, (Cambridge: MIT Press,

2002), 2006.

* Book Review in: Journal of Asian Economics, on The Philippine Economy:

Development, Policies, and Challenges, Balisacan, Arsenio M. and Hal Hill, Vol. 16 (5),

2005, pp. 989-990.

* “Trade Policy Development and Negotiation in the Doha Round: Documentation of

Major Issues and Proposals on Africa’s Position: Problems of Policy Coherence in the

Context of Doha,” African Capacity Building Foundation Newsletter, Vol. 2, No.1, First

Quarter 2005, pp. 9-13.

* Commentary on: Urata, Shujiro, “Toward Northeast Asian Production Networks,” in

Kim, Yoon Hyung and Chang Jae Lee (eds.), Strengthening Economic Cooperation in

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Northeast Asia (Seoul: KIEP, 2004) pp. 288-291.

* Commentary on: Dutta, M., “The Theory of Optimum Currency Areas Revisited:

Lessons from the Euro/Dollar Competitive Currency Regimes,” Journal of Asian

Economics, Vol. 16 (3), 2005, pp. 376-79.

* Commentary on: (A) Lee, Roland-Holst and Mensbrugghe, “China’s Emergence and

East Asia Trade Under Alternative Trade Arrangements,” and (B) Hsiao and Hsiao, “The

Chaotic Attractor of Foreign Direct Investment-Why China? Panel Data Analysis,”

Journal of Asian Economics, Vol. 15, No. 4, August. 2004.

* Johns Hopkins University SAISPHERE 2003, “U.S. Trade Diplomacy: Playing the

Regionalism Card,” (Washington, DC, Johns Hopkins University SAIS).

* Book Review in: Journal of Asian Business, on APEC as an Institution, Richard

Feinberg (ed.), (Singapore: ISEAS, 2003), Vol. 19, No.3, 2003, pp. 95-97.

* Book Review in: Journal of Asian Economics, on Globalisation and SMEs in East Asia,

and The Role of SMEs in National Economies in East Asia, Charles Harvie and Boon-

Chye Lee (eds.), (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2002).

* EU-Asia Bulletin, “EU Lessons for the Next Steps in ASEAN Integration,” European

Institute for Asian Studies, 2002.

* Far Eastern Economic Review, 5th Column: “Financial Cooperation Needed,” October

17, 2002.

* Book Review in: ASEAN Economic Bulletin, on America’s Trade Follies, Bernard K.

Gordon, December 2002.

* Commentary on: Kimura, Fukunari and Robert E. Baldwin, “Application of Nationality:

Adjusted Net Sales and Value Added Framework: The Case of Japan,” in Lipsey, Robert

and J. David Richardson (eds.), Geography and Ownership as Bases for Economic

Accounting, Chicago University Press and National Bureau of Economic Research, 1998

* Book Review in: Journal of Asian Economics, on Asian Development Outlook 1997-98,

Asian Development Bank, Summer 1998.

* Book Review in: Journal ofAsian Economics, on Malaysia's Economic Success, Ataul

Huq (Pramanik), (Selangor Darul Ehsan: Pelanduk Publications, 1995) Vol. 6, No. 3,

1995.

* Article Review: Frankel, Jeffrey and Miles Kahler (eds.), “Regionalism and Rivalry:

Japan and the United States in Pacific Asia,” (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,

1993), in Journal of Asian Economics, Vol. 8, No. 2, Summer 1997, pp. 345-353.

* Article Review, Trefler, Daniel, “Trade Liberalization and the Theory of Endogenous

Protection: An Econometric Study of U.S. Import Policy,” Journal of Political Economy,

February 1993, in Economic Insights (Washington, D.C.: Institute for International

Economics, September-October 1993).

* Book review in: West European Politics, on Foreign Economic Relations of the EC: The

Impact of Spain and Portugal, Tovias, Alfred, January 1992.

* Book review in: ASEAN Economic Bulletin, on Global Adjustment and the Future of the

Asia-Pacific Economy, Miyohei Shinihara and Fu-Chen Lo (eds.), Vol. 7, No. 3 (March

1991), pp. 352-354.

* Book review in: ASEAN Economic Bulletin, on: Global Adjustment and the Future of the

Asia-Pacific Economy, Miyohei Shinihara and Fu-Chen Lo (eds.), Vol. 7, No. 3 (March

1991), pp. 352-354.

Other Publications

* “What the Expanding TPP and Other Regional Accords Mean to the Global Trading

System,” Multilateralism Matters, RSIS, Centre for Multilateralism Studies Bulletin,

Issue 7, April 2013, p. 2 (with P. Petri).

* “Economic and Technical Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific: Lessons from Regional Aid

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for Trade,” Ch. 3 in, PECC, State of the Region 2013-2014 (Singapore: PECC, 2013).

* “The Benefits of Japan’s Joining the TPP Negotiations,” invited contribution to

Newsweek Japan (in Japanese and English), 2 April, 2013 (with P. Petri).

* “EU, United States and the New Regionalism in the Asia-Pacific,” in European

Parliament Directorate-General for External Policies, Workshop on Transatlantic

Economic Relations, Workshop on Transatlantic Economic Relations, Part V, Ch. 1,

June 2012, pp. 57-76.

* “Globalization and Developing Countries: Discussant’s Comments,” in Pompeo Della

Posta, Milica Uvalic and Amy Verdun (eds.), Globalization, Development and

Integration: A European Perspective (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

* How to Design, Negotiate, and Implement a Free Trade Agreement in Asia (Manila:

Asian Development Bank, April 2008) (book project editor). Also available at:.

* “East Asian Economic Integration and Europe: Can ASEAN Learn from the EU?,”

Emerging Developments in East Asia FTA/EPAs, Shigeyuki Abe and Bhanupong

Nidhiprabha, (eds.), (Kyoto: CSEAS, 2007).

* “Toward Win-win Regionalism in Asia: Issues and Challenges in Forming Efficient

Free-trade Agreements,” ADB Working Paper on Regional Economic Integration No. 5,

October 2006. Available at: http://aric.adb.org/publications/workingpaperseries.

* “Phoenix or Flop? Italian Economic Policy after the 2006 Elections,” JHUBC Instant

Book, Spring 2006 (with S. Giannozzi).

* “The ASEAN Economic Community and the European Experience: Links and Lessons,”

Chapter 18 in Mitsuru Toida and Jinichi Uemura (eds.), FTAs in East Asia: Trade Link

Model (II), (IDE-Jetro, 2006) pp. 561-585.

* “Global Economic Regionalism and Asia: the Implications of Intra- and Extra-regional

Accords, Introduction to Guest Issues, Journal of Asian Economics, 16.1, 2005 (with

Erik Jones), pp. 1-3.

* “EU-Asia: Links and Lessons: Introduction,” Journal of Asian Economics, December

2003 (with E. Jones).

* “APIAN Report: Financial Stability Issues,” prepared for the APEC Study Centers

APIAN Project, November 2000.

* “Reflections on 30 Years of ASEAN,” ASEAN Economic Bulletin, November 1997 (with

S. Naya).

* “Chiiki Tougou to Enjo” (“Regional Integration and Development Assistance”),

Kokumin Keizai Zashi (National Economic Journal), Vol. 5, May 1997, pp. 31-47 (with

S. Abe).

* “Preparing the Way for Development Cooperation in APEC: Jumping the Aid

Administration and Policy Hurdles,” in Elek, Andrew (ed.), Development Cooperation in

APEC (Brisbane: Foundation for International Development, 1997) (with S. Abe).

* “Building Blocs of Economic Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific,” in Imada-Iboshi, Pearl,

Michael G. Plummer and Seiji Naya (eds.), Building Blocs of Economic Cooperation: An

Evolutionary Approach (Honolulu: East-West Center, 1995) (with Pearl Imada-Iboshi).

* “The Emerging New Tiger: Economic Reform and Development in Vietnam,” Journal of

Asian Economics, Vol. 6, No. 3, 1995, pp. 307-309.

* “European Economic Integration in the 1990s: Implications for Asia,” Pacific Focus,

Vol. VII, No.1, Spring 1993, pp. 97-111 (with C. Lee).

* Competitiveness, Globalization and Growth in the Pacific Region in the 1990s (Osaka:

Japan Committee for Economic Cooperation, 1993) (with W.E. James and M. Kreinin).

* “Trade Diversion from NAFTA: A Disaggregated Approach for Korea and ASEAN,”

Chapter 3.6 in Ohno, Koichi, Regional Integration and its Impact on Developing

Countries (Tokyo: Institute of Developing Countries, March 1993), pp. 392-396.

* ASEAN Economic Cooperation for the 1990s (Manila: Philippine Institute of

Development Studies and the ASEAN Secretariat, 1992) (et al., eds.).

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* “Global Investment and the Future of Minerals Production,” Geojournal, 27.2 207-216

(June 1992), pp. 207-216 (with J. Dorian).

* “ASEAN Economic Cooperation in the 1990s,” in Sandhu, Kernial and Sharon Siddique

(eds.), The ASEAN Reader (Singapore: ISEAS, 1992) (with S. Naya).

* “ASEAN-U.S. Initiative,” in Sandhu, Kernial and Sharon Siddique (eds.), The ASEAN

Reader (Singapore: ISEAS, 1992) (et. al.).

* “Asia and EC 1992: The Missing Link,” Atlantic Economic Journal, Volume XIX, No. 4

(December 1991).

* The UNDP-ASEAN Relationship: Partnership in Progress (New York: UNDP, May

1991) (with S. Naya and Cesar Virata).

* AUI Background Papers: Contributions to the ASEAN-U.S. Initiative (Honolulu: East-

West Center, 1990) (with S. Naya, eds.).

* Pacific Economic Cooperation in the Global Context: Structural Issues of Trade,

Finance, and the Adjustment Process (Honolulu: East-West Center, 1990); and Pacific

Economic Cooperation Conference Proceedings (November 1989) (with S. Naya and

W.E. James)

* UNDP-ASEAN Private Sector Seminar: Enhancing the Role of the Private Sector in

ASEAN Economic Cooperation, conference proceedings (New York: United Nations

Development Programme, 1989) (with S. Naya)

VISITING FELLOWSHIPS AND PROFESSORSHIPS

2006-present Adjunct Professor, Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Economic

Development (Spring)

2010 Adjunct Professor, Università di Bologna, International Trade Theory

and Practice (Fall)

2009 Adjunct Professor, Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy, International

Economics (March)

2005-06 Adjunct Professor, L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques (“Sciences Po”),

Intégration Economique d’Asie (February)

2005-2009 Visiting Fellow, Doshisha University (Japan)

Spring 2004 Adjunct Professor, International Economic Policy, Université de

Nantes, D.E.A. Program (in French)

Spring 2003 Professore a Contratto, Università Luigi Bocconi, International

Commercial Policy (in Italian),

2002-2007 Adjunct Professor, Università di Bologna (Forlì),Commercial Policy of

the EU, Laurea Specialistica

Spring 2003 Adjunct Professor, Università Milano-Politecnico, Microeconomics

Summer 2002 Visiting Scholar, International Center for the Study of East Asian

Development (ICSEAD), Kitakyushu, Japan

Spring 2002 Adjunct Professor, Università Luigi Bocconi, International Economics,

2000-2001 Adjunct Professor, LIUC (Università Carlo Cattaneo, Italy), Fall

Summer 1999 Visiting Scholar, University of Auckland (New Zealand), Dept. of

Economics and APEC Study Center

Summer 1998 Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

(Singapore)

1995 to 1997 Faculty Member, Harvard University, Institute of International

Development, Summer Macroeconomic Policy Program,

1992 to 1993 Associate Professor of Economics, Monterey Institute of International

Studies, International Policy Division,

1989 to 1993 Associate Graduate Faculty, University of Hawaii at Manoa,

Department of Economics,

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1988 to 1989 Project Fellow, East-West Center, Development Policy Program

1987 to 1988 Visiting Assistant Professor, Albion College

SELECTED INTERNATIONAL PROJECT DIRECTION

2013-14 ASEAN 2030 (Lead, Team of Reviewers), ADB Institute.

2012-2014 Regional Perspectives on Asia for Trade (Principle Consultant and

Project Director, OECD).

2010-2011 Seizing the Benefits of Trade Liberalization for Employment and

Growth (OECD team participant, prepared for G-20 Summit, Seoul,

November 2010).

2008-09 Realizing the ASEAN Economic Community: A Comprehensive

Assessment (Project Coordinator, ASEAN Secretariat/USAID).

2007-08 Emerging Asian Regionalism: A Partnership for Shared Prosperity

(Team Member), Asian Development Bank.

2006-2007 Toward an ASEAN Investment Area (Team Leader), ASEAN

Secretariat/USAID

2006 Study on Aligning External Tariffs and External Trade Policy in

ASEAN (Team Leader and Senior Trade Specialist), ASEAN

Secretariat/EU APRIS.

2006 Asian Development Outlook 2006, Economic Research Department,

Asian Development Bank.

2003-2005 Enterprise for ASEAN Initiative, East-West Center, U.S.-ASEAN

Business Council (with Seiji Naya).

2003-2004 Policy Coherence in East Asia, OECD Development Centre.

2000-2002 Economic Cooperation Organization Secretariat Project on ECO

Trade Agreement (Tehran, Ankara, Pakistan, Central Asia), UNDP.

2001-2002 Implementing Vietnam’s Economic Integration Accords, NCIEC

(Vietnamese government), UNDP.

2001-2003 ASEAN Bond Market Study, ASEAN Secretariat (all ASEAN

countries).

1996 to 1998 Making APEC Work, Japan Foundation, Center for Global Partnership

(with Peter A. Petri and Anne Carter).

1995 Impact of APEC on Papua New Guinea (UNDP).

1990 to 1993 Private Investment and Trade Opportunities in ASEAN, USAID Project

Policy Analysis Component (with P. Imada).

1988 to 1989 ASEAN-U.S. Initiative, East-West Center (with S. Naya and P. Imada).

MISCELLANEOUS POSITIONS AND APPOINTMENTS

2012 to 2014 Academic and Faculty Liaison, SAIS Europe

2003-2004 Discipline Leader (Economics), Civic Education Project, Former

Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (Budapest, Skopje)

2001 Project Participant, World Bank Project on Trade and Investment in the

Asia Pacific (Bangkok)

2000 Issue Coordinator, Financial Stability Issues, APEC Study Center

Consortium APIAN Project

2000 Project participant, Asia dopo la Crisi, ISPI, Ministry of Foreign

Affairs, Government of Italy

2000 CARIVIT Lecture Series, Associazione Industriale di Viterbo,

Developments in the International Economy, May-July

1999 USIS Special Lecturer, Wellington, Auckland (New Zealand)

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1998 Policy Advising Team/Resource Person, United Nations (ESCAP),

Asian Crisis and Trade Policy Scenarios

1996 to 1997 Special Guest Editor, ASEAN Economic Bulletin, “New Approaches to

Regional Economic Integration in ASEAN” (ASEAN 30th Anniversary

Issue; with Seiji Naya)

1995 USIS Special Lecturer, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, and Brisbane

(Australia)

1992 to 1997 U.S. Team Leader, Projections for the Asian Industrializing Region

(PAIR) project, Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo, Japan

1992 to 1994 U.S. Team Co-coordinator, Pacific Economic Outlook Structural

Issues Working Group, Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference

1993 to 1994 Grant Recipient, U.S. Department of Labor, Asian Regionalism and

U.S. interests

1990 to 1993 Co-Principal Investigator, University of Hawaii-East West Center

Collaborative Grant, Emerging Unofficial Economic Ties in East Asia

1992 Lecture Series, Trends in International Finance, to People's Bank of

China (Guanzhou/Xiaoxin, China), sponsored by ADB.

1991 Research Team Member, ASEAN Secretariat Study, ASEAN Economic

Cooperation for the 1990s: Towards an ASEAN Economic Community

1991 Lecturer, Issues in Asian Development, to Asian Development Bank

(with John Whalley)

1990 Team Member, UNDP-ASEAN Program Review (with Cesar Virata

and Seiji Naya)

EXTERNAL TENURE/PROMOTION REVIEWS

University of London (SOAS); The Johns Hopkins University; University of Hawai’i;

Brandeis University; University of Limerick; Nanyang Technical University.

POSITIONS AS REFEREE

University Presses: University of Michigan Press; University of Chicago Press; University of

Hawaii Press.

Academic Journals: The World Economy, World Trade Review, World Development;

Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv; American Journal of Agricultural Economics; Journal of Asian

Economics; International Journal of Applied Economics; Journal of Economic Integration;

International Economic Journal; Asian Economic Journal; International Management; North

American Journal of Economics and Finance; ASEAN Economic Bulletin; Contemporary

Policy Studies; International Business Journal; Telecommunications Policy; Journal of

International Trade and Economic Development; Singapore Economic Review; China

Economic Review.

Other Publishers/Institutes: Dryden; McGraw-Hill; OECD Development Centre; Institute

of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore); Japan Foundation, Center for Global Partnership:

John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; Edward Elgar.

SELECTED CONSULTANT POSITIONS

African Capacity Building Foundation (Harare); World Bank; National Committee for

International Economic Cooperation (NCIEC), Hanoi, Vietnam; Economic Cooperation

Organization Secretariat, Iran; ICSEAD, Kitakyushu, Japan; Institute of Southeast Asian

Studies, Singapore; Government of Indonesia, Research and Development Department,

Ministry of Trade, Jakarta; OECD Development Centre, Paris; OECD Secretariat, Paris;

International Labour Organisation; World Trade Organisation; United Nations, Department

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of Economics and Development, New York; Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo;

ASEAN Secretariat, Jakarta; United States Agency for International Development, Jakarta,

Indonesia, and Bangkok, Thailand (USAID-ASEAN); United Nations Development

Programme, New York, Jakarta, Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea), Tehran, Hanoi; Asian

Development Bank, Manila; United Nations Economic and Social Committee for the Asia-

Pacific (ESCAP), Bangkok; International Trade Centre, Geneva; U.S. Department of Labor,

Washington, D.C.; Friedrich-Ebert Foundation, Bonn; US Department of State, Washington,

D.C.; Harvard Institute of International Development, Cambridge; U.S. Information Agency,

Washington, D.C., Canberra, Tokyo, Wellington; US-ASEAN Business Council; A.T.

Kearney.

COURSES TAUGHT

Undergraduate Level: Principles of Economics; Analysis of Economic Problems,

Intermediate Microeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, International Economics,

International Trade, International Finance, Regional Economic Integration in Theory and

Practice, Global Economic Integration, Asian Economic Development, Mathematics for

Microeconomics, Finanza Internazionale.

Graduate Level: International Economics, International Macroeconomics, International

Finance, International Trade Theory, International Economic Environment, Cases in

International Economics and Finance, European Economic Integration, East Asian Miracle?,

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Global Economic Integration, Microeconomics,

Commercial Policy: Theory and Practice, Asian Economic Development, Politica

Commerciale dell’Unione Europea, Theories and Models of Economic Development,

Politique Commerciale Intérnationale, Intégration Economique de l’Asie, Development

Economics, Introduction to Development, Microeconomics and International Trade.

ADDITIONAL CONFERENCES

Selected Conferences Since 2002 (distinguished lectures listed above):

a. Invited Lectures/Presentations:

*Invited Speaker, L’Unione Europea e le nuove relazione Est Ovest, “La politica economica

internazionale Americana: nuove sfide e opportunità,” Università Ca’ Foscari, 20

October, 2017.

*Invited Speaker, IBRAC 17th Seminar on International Trade, The New Context for

International Commercial Policy and Its Implications for Developing Economies, Sao

Paulo, Brazil, 9 June, 2017

*Invited Speaker, 2017 State of the EU Emission Trading System (ETS), The Perspective

from the United States, Bologna, 7 June, 2017.

*Invited Speaker, Europe.USA.3.0, Geist & Gegenwart Whitsun Dialogues, Seggau Castle,

Leibnitz, Austria, 31 May to 2 June. Presentations:

1. Plenary Session, Economics Forum: Global Economy: Quo Vadis?

2. Break-out session, Economy

*Invited Speaker, Asia Forum, New Global Policy Balances and Power Ambitions in Asia:

Consequences and Challenges for Europe, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oslo,

Norway, 15 March, 2017. (Also included two seminars on international trade and

finance matters for the economics division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and for the

Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries, 14-15 March, 2017).

*Invited Presentation, Asian Integration: Risks and Opportunities for the United States,

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Chief Economist, Washington, 23 February,

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2017.

*Panel Presentation, Gli Stati Uniti dopo il Voto: L’agenda Economica del Presidente

Trump, ISPI, Milan, 18 January, 2017.

*Paper Presentation, Mega-regionalism and the Future of the Global Trading System,

Department of Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University

of London, London, 21 November, 2016.

*Paper Presentation, Mega-regionalism and Developing Economies, Lee Kuan Yew School

of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, 17 November, 2016.

*Paper Presentation, Mega-regionalism in the Asia-Pacific and Options for Shared Chinese-

US Economic Leadership, The 9th Annual Conference on China’s Economic

Development and the U.S.-China Relationship, Institute for International Economic

Policy, Elliott School of Government, George Washington University, Washington, DC,

11 November 2016.

*Paper Presentation, Mega-regionalism and Developing Countries, World Bank,

Washington, DC, 23 May, 2016.

*Book Presentation, Connecting Asia: Infrastructure for Integrating South Asia and

Southeast Asia, Institute of Southeast Asian Students (ISEAS), Singapore, 9 May, 2016

(via videolink).

*Paper Presentations, Public-private Dialogue on Improving the Investment Climate for GVC

Management, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 28-29 April, 2016. Presentations:

1. “Regional Integration in the Asia-Pacific and Its Implications for GVCs”

2. “Globalization versus Automation?”

*Panel Participant, Plenary Session 1, “What Does Public Policy Do with Different

Disciplines?,” 2nd International Conferences on Public Policy,” Milan, 1-4 July, 2015.

*Discussant, “How Restrictive Are ASEAN’s Rules of Origin?,” Asian Economic Panel,

Lund, Sweden, 8-9 June, 2015.

*Presentation, “Egypt-US Economic Relations in a Global Context,” Egyptian International

Economic Forum, Cairo, 27 May, 2015.

*Presentation, “ASEAN Integration and Asia’s Emerging Trade Strategies,” Center for

Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington, DC, 9 April, 2015.

*Paper Presentation, “ASEAN Economic Cooperation and the Asia-Pacific Future,” Edwin

O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies Seminar Series, SAIS, Washington, D.C.,

12 February, 2015.

*Keynote Lecture, “Japan’s Role in Mega-regionalism,” International Forum for the 50th

Anniversary of Dokkyo University, Tokyo, 6 December, 2014.

*Book Launches, Regional Perspectives on Aid for Trade: at SAIS Europe, 1 December,

2014 and at SAIS Washington, 11 December, 2014.

*Paper Presentation, “Mega-regionalism in Asia and Its Implications for Europe,” Mega-

FTAs and the Global Political Economy, University of California, Berkeley, 24-25

October, 2014.

*Paper Presentation, “TPP and Emerging Asian Regionalism in the Asia-Pacific,” American

Association for Chinese Studies, Annual Meeting 2014, George Washington University,

Washington, D.C., 10 October, 2014.

*Paper Presentation, “ASEAN Centrality and the US-ASEAN Economic Partnership,”

Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, New York, 3 October, 2014.

*Paper Presentation, “ASEAN Centrality and Mega-regionalism in the Asia-Pacific,”

Inaugural Seminar on International Political Economy, RSIS, Nanyang Technical

University, Singapore, 22 August, 2014.

*Paper Presentation, “The TTIP, Mega-regionalism, and Asia,” ISEAS APEC Symposium on

Regionalism in the Asia-Pacific, Singapore, 21 August, 2014.

*Paper Presentation, “Economic Implications of Deeper South-Southeast Asian Integration:

A CGE Approach,” Asian Economic Panel, Bank of Finland, Helsinki, 9-10 June, 2014.

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*Book launch, ASEAN Centrality and the ASEAN-US Economic Relationship, East-West

Center at Washington, 10 April, 2014.

*Presentation, “The New Regionalism, Aid for Trade, and the Global Free-trade Vision,” Bali

Trade and Development Forum, Ninth Ministerial Meeting of the WTO, Nusa Dua, Bali,

Indonesia 5 December, 2013.

*Paper Presentation, “ASEAN Centrality and the ASEAN-US Economic Relationship,”

Asian International Economics Network (AIEN) Speaker Series, Manila, 8 November,

2013.

*Paper Presentation, “Assessing the Impacts of ASEAN Economic Integration on Labor

Markets,” ADB/ILO Conference, ASEAN Community 2015: Managing Integration for

Better Jobs and Shared Prosperity, Bangkok, 5-6 November, 2013.

*Presentation, “ASEAN Centrality, RCEP, and the TPP,” 9th Annual Conference of the Asia-

Pacific Economic Association (APEA), Osaka, Japan, 27-28 July, 2013.

*Session Chair, “Moving the Development Effectiveness Agenda Forward: Assessing the

Impact of Aid for Trade,” WTO, Fourth Global Review of Aid for Trade, Geneva, 9 July,

2013.

*Presentation, “Benefits of the ASEAN Economic Community,” Myanmar Ministry of

National Planning and Economic Development (MNPED) and USAID conference:

Myanmar and the ASEAN Economic Community, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, 21-22 March,

2013 (also presentation to Yangon University on same topic, Yangon, 23 March, 2013).

*Roundtable panelist, “Aligning Economic and Regional Cooperation Goals and Regional

Integration,” Pacific Economic Cooperation Council Conference: Asia-Pacific Economic

Integration and Connectivity: Pathways for Resilient and Inclusive Growth, Singapore,

22-23 February, 2013.

*Presentation, “The Economics of RCEP for Indonesia,” Indonesia Trade Conference 2013:

Trade Outlook, TPP, ASEAN RCEP, and Other Policies, Department of Trade,

Government of Indonesia, and SEADI/USAID, Jakarta, Indonesia, 30 January, 2013.

*Session Chair, “How to Promote Regional Aid for Trade,” OECD Policy Dialogue on Aid

for Trade, Paris, 16-17 January, 2013.

*Presentation, “The Transpacific Partnership, Asian Track, and the Effects on Non-partners,”

The 27th Pacific Economic Seminar: Regional Economic Integration: Review and

Outlook, Chinese Taipei, 4-6 October, 2012.

*Presentation, “Trans-Pacific Partnership and Asia-Pacific Economic Integration:

Implications for Europe,” Chief Economist Seminar Program (DG Trade), Brussels, 6

July, 2012.

*Presentation, Transatlantic Economic Relations in a Changing Global Environment,

European Parliament, Brussels, 30 May, 2012.

*Presentation, Pathways to the Free-Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific: TPP and Stakes for

Malaysia, Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), Kuala Lumpur,

Malaysia, 29 March, 2012.

*Paper Presentations, Trans-Pacific Partnership and Asia-Pacific Integration: A Quantitative

Assessment, to: Ministry of Trade, Government of Singapore, 28 March, 2012; and

Ministry of Trade and Industry, Government of Malaysia, 29 March, 2012.

*Presentation, “The Emerging Post-Doha Agenda and the New Regionalism,” Asian

Development Bank Institute-Nanyang Technical University/RSIS Conference: The

Evolving Global Architecture: From a Centralized to a Decentralized System, Singapore,

26-27 March 2012

*Paper Presentation, “The Transpacific Partnership: A Quantitative Assessment,”

Stakeholders Forum of the 11th Round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Melbourne,

Australia, 4 March, 2012.

*Presentation, “The Role of Donors in Enhancing Aid Effectiveness: Contributions via Aid

for Trade,” 7th Annual Meeting of the African Capacity Building Foundation, Technical

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Advisory Panels and Networks (TAPNETS): Networking for Africa’s Future, Yaoundé,

Cameroun, 21-22 November, 2011.

*Presentation, “Asian and Transpacific Paths to the Asia-Pacific Economic Community,”

Global Forum on Trade, OECD, Paris, 8-9 November, 2011.

*Presentation, University of Tokyo, Japan, the East Asian Community, and APEC, Tokyo, 18

October, 2010.

*Presentation, Trade and Employment Post-Crisis: Global Shocks, Structural Changes and

Policy Responses, Washington, DC, World Bank and ILO, 25 October, 2010.

*Presentation, “The Role of Trade in Fostering a Recovery,” WTO Public Forum 2010,

Geneva, WTO, 17 September, 2010.

*Presentation, “Rebalancing the Global Economy,” Fulbright Association Annual Meeting,

30 October, 2009.

*Presentation, “The Crisis and Southeast Asia: Challenges to Sustained Recovery,” ADB

Institute/Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference, Tokyo, 28-29 July, 2009.

*Paper Presentation, “Regional Monitoring of Capital Flows and Coordination of Financial

Regulation: Stakes and Options for Asia,” conference Global Economic Crisis: Financial

Sector Reform and Regulation, ADB Institute, Tokyo, 21-22 July, 2009.

*Presentation, “The Global Financial Crisis and Asian Economic Integration,” Policy

Seminar Series, East-West Center, 8 January, 2009.

*Presentation, “Asia-Pacific Cooperation and the Global Financial Crisis: Issues in Global

and Regional Leadership,” (with P. Petri), ADB Institute/East-West Center Conference:

US-Japan-China: Deeper Integration, 6-7 January, 2009.

*Presentation, “Regional Economic Integration in Asia: Lessons for Latin America,”

Integraciòn y Promociòn del Comercio Exterior: Anàlisis y Perspectivas, organized by

Promperù UNITC, Lima, Perù, 4-5 December, 2008.

*Presentation, “Liberia in the Global Trading System: Building Strategies for the WTO,

FTAs, and Domestic Policy Reform,” Public-private Dialogue on the International

Trading System: Empowering Business for Advocacy in the New International Trading

System, organized by United Nations International Trade Centre, Monrovia, Liberia, 8

September, 2008.

*Presentation, “Monetary Union in East Asia: Issues of Economic and Policy Convergence in

a Comparative Context,” Conference on Regional Economic Relationships, The Hebrew

University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 11-12 June 2008.

*Presenter and Faculty Member, “The Many-sided Pacific: Structures for Cooperation,” The

Salzburg Global Seminars, Salzburg, 9-11 June 2008.

*Presentation, Market-Driven Regionalism in Asia: Integration, Competitiveness and the

Quest for Best Practices, Research Department, International Trade Commission,

Washington, DC, 1 May, 2008

*Presentation, A Preliminary Assessment of the ASEAN Economic Community, Heritage

Foundation, Washington, DC, 14 April, 2008.

*Presentations, Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) 2008:

“Economic Integration, Structural Change, and Implications for Future Growth in Asia,”

and “Can Emerging Economies Decouple?” Cambridge, Harvard University, 6 April,

2008.

*Presentations, Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan:

External Trade Relations in the New Europe, and Structural Change in Europe and Its

Implications for Trade.

*Presentation, Asian Economic Integration and US Policy Options, Robert Strauss Center,

University of Texas-Austin, 22 February, 2008.

*Paper Presentation, “Harnessing Productivity and Competitiveness in East Asia through

Trade and Investment,” Emerging Asian Regionalism, Finalization Conference, ADB

Institute, Tokyo, 1-3 November, 2007.

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*Presentations, Integration Strategies for ASEAN: Alone, Together, or Together with

Neighbors? at: University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Economics, 16 November,

2007; The Johns Hopkins University, SAIS-DC, International Economics Department, 25

October, 2007; East-West Center Seminar Series, Honolulu, 17 August, 2007.

*Paper Presentation, “FDI Effects of ASEAN Integration,” conference in honor of Rachel

McCulloch, Is Free Trade Still Optimal in the 21st Century?, Brandeis University,

Waltham, MA, 15 June, 2007.

*Roundtable participant, “Global Imbalances, IMF Reform and World Money,” Conference

on Global Money, Palazzo Mundell, Santa Colomba, Italy, 8-10 June, 2007.

*Presentation, “ASEAN Economic Community: Liberalization of Finance and Investment,

Shanghai Forum 2007, Fudan University, Shanghai, 25-27 May, 2007.

*Paper Presentation, Towards an ASEAN Investment Area, ASEAN Secretariat, Jakarta,

Indonesia, 22 January, 2007.

*Paper Presentation, Best Practices in Regional Trading Agreements, Department of

Economics, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK, 9 December, 2006.

*Series of Lectures, Regionalism and Sri Lanka, Colombo, 22-25 November, 2006.

*Presentation, “East Asian Economic Integration and Europe: Can ASEAN Learn from the

EU?” Core University 2006 Program Conference on FTAs, organized by Kyoto

University, Doshisha University, and Thammasat University, Kyoto, Japan, 27-28

October, 2006.

*Paper Presentation, Post-sequencing of Economic Integration in Asia: Trade First? Money

First?, Kiel Institute of World Economics, Kiel, September 2006.

*Roundtable Participant, Options for the International Monetary System: 4th Annual

Roundtable on Global Money, Palazzo Mundell, Santa Colomba, Italy, 7-9 July, 2006.

*Presentation, Asia and Europe: Links and Lessons, Institute of Developing Economies,

Tokyo, 1-3 March, 2006.

*Presentation, “L’Emergenza della Cina nel Ambito Internazionale ed Implicazioni per il

Giappone,” XXVII Convegno di Studi sul Giappone, organized by Università Luigi

Bocconi e l’Università di Milano, Milan, Italy, 16-18 September, 2004.

*Presentation, “Regional Groupings, Discrimination, and the Revoking of Preferential Status

of Non-members: Effects of EU Enlargement on the Mediterranean Basin,” Pan

European Conference on EU Politics, Bologna, Italy, 24-26 June, 2004.

*Presentation, “Can the East Asian Experience be Replicated outside the Region?,” The

Impact and Coherence of OECD Country Policies on Asian Developing Economies,

organized by OECD Development Center and Japan Ministry of Finance, Paris,

Workshop (19-20 April, 2004) and Final Conference (10-11 June, 2004).

*Presentation, Les Implications Economiques de l’élargisement de la UE, Université de

Nantes, 8 March, 2004 (presentation in French).

*Presentation, “Restructuring and Decentralisation in Transition: Russia and China,” Key

Issues in Foreign Direct Investment in China, organized by the University of Bologna-

Ravenna, Ravenna, 14-15 November, 2003.

*Session Chair, Japan and Italy: Economic Performances and Policies Compared, organized

by Bocconi University and Hitotsubashi University, 9-10 October, 2003.

*Presentation, “On the Creation of an ASEAN Economic Community: Lessons from the EU

and Reflections on the Roadmap,” ASEAN Roundtable 2003: Roadmap for the ASEAN

Economic Community, Singapore, 21-22 August, 2003.

*Paper Presentation, “Bond Market Development and Integration in ASEAN,” Major Issues

in the Dynamics of East Asian Financial Markets, HWWA, Hamburg, Germany, 14-16

May, 2003.

*Presentation, “Bond Market Development and Integration in ASEAN,” and “Stock Market

Integration in ASEAN,” (with Reid Click), ICSEAD Lecture Series, Kitakyushu, Japan,

2-3 August, 2002.

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*Presentation, “Capital Market Development in ASEAN,” WHU Koblenz University Seminar

Series, Koblenz, Germany, 7 March, 2002.

b. Presentations to Academic Conferences

*Chair, “A New World (Dis)order and Its Economic Implications,” 8th RCEA Macro-Finance

Workshop, Rimini, 18 May, 2017.

*Presentations, 2016 American Economic Association Meetings, San Francisco, San

Francisco, 2016:

1. Chair and Discussant, “Money and Exchange Rates in Emerging Asia,” ACAES/AEA

session.

2. Roundtable Participant, “The Saga of Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations,” ITFA

session.

*Presentations, 2014 American Economic Association Meetings, Philadelphia, 3-5 January,

2014:

1. “The New Regionalism and the Global Free Trade Vision,” ITFA session, Roundtable

on Regionalism.

2. “ASEAN Centrality and US Interests,” AEA/ACAES session.

*Presentations, 2013 American Economic Association Meetings, San Diego, 4-6 January,

2013:

1. Chair, “Empirical Assessments of International Shock Transmissions,” AEA/ASSA

session.

2. “Asia and the Euro: Macro Problems and Micro Lessons,” ITFA session, Roundtable

on the Euro.

*Presentation and Roundtable Participation, “The Future of the WTO, and Trade and

Development,” International Trade and Finance Association Conference, Pisa, 23-25

May, 2012.

*Presentation, “The Economics of the Transpacific Partnership: A Quantitative Assessment,”

American Economic Association meetings, Chicago, 5-7 January, 2012.

*Presentation and Roundtable Participation, American Economic Association meetings,

Denver, 6-8 January 2011:

1. “Financial Rebalancing: Stakes and Options for Asia,” AEA/ACAES Session, Global

Rebalancing and Asia, 8 January, 2011.

2. “The New Asia-Pacific Regional Architecture,” ITFA Session, Roundtable on

Regionalism, 7 January, 2011.

*Presentations, 2009 American Economic Association Meetings, San Francisco, 3-5 January,

2009:

1. “Optimal Sequencing Issues in Real and Monetary Integration in East Asia,” (with M.

Kreinin).

2. “Monetary Integration in East Asia: Issues of Economic and Policy Convergence in a

Comparative Context,” (with M. Kreinin).

*Presentations, 2008 American Economic Association Meetings, New Orleans, 4-6 January,

2008:

1. “Global Trade Imbalances: Are they Sustainable?” AEA/SPM

2. “Market-Driven Regionalism in Asia: Integration, Competitiveness and the Quest for

Best Practices,” AEA/ACAES

*Presentation, “The Price Effects of NAFTA Revisited,”2007 American Economic

Association Meetings, Chicago, 5-7 January, 2007.

*Presentation, “Doha and Africa after the Hong Kong Ministerial,” Africa Capacity Building

Foundation Annual Meeting, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 7-8 April, 2006.

*Presentation, “ASEAN Economic Community and the European Experience,”2006

American Economic Association Meetings,5-7 January, 2006,

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*Presentation, “Enterprise for ASEAN Initiative: Implications for ASEAN and Its

Members,” 30th Meeting of the Federation of ASEAN Economic Association (invited

lecture), Makati City, the Philippines, 24-25 November, 2005.

*Presentation, “Trade Policy Development and Negotiations at the Doha Round:

Documentation of Major Issues and Proposals on Africa’s Position,” African Capacity

Building Foundation Annual Meeting, Harare, Zimbabwe, 14-15 April, 2005.

*Presentations, 2005 American Economic Association Meetings, Philadelphia, 7-9 January,

2005:

1. “The Economics of the Enterprise for ASEAN Initiative,” Innovations in US

Commercial Policy (session organizer)

2. “The International Price Effects of NAFTA,” Discussant for session by American

Committee on Asian Economic Studies.

*Presentations, 2003 American Economic Association Meetings, Washington, DC, January,

2003:

1. “Real Links in a Globalized Asia: Macro Trends and Policy Challenges”

2. “How has Modern Regionalism Affected DFI Flows?” (with Max Kreinin)