The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of the Pacific Rim

Inderjit Kaur is Research Fellow at University of San Francisco.Nirvikar Singh is Professor of Economics at University of California, Santa Cruz.

"The introduction states that papers in this handbook collectively provide useful insights about the economics of the Pacific Rim region. The editors have succeeded in their task." -- Masao Nakamura, The University of British Columbia

• Contributors ; Introduction ; Inderjit N. Kaur and Nirvikar Singh ; PART I. THE NATURAL WORLD: HISTORY, CLIMATE, AND RISKS ; 1. The History of Biological Exploitation on the Pacific Rim, Eric Jones ; 2. Climate Risk and Response in the Pacific Rim, David Roland-Holst ; 3. Natural Disasters and Economic Policy for the Pacific Rim, Ilan Noy ; PART II. PEOPLE: MIGRATION, DEMOGRAPHICS AND HUMAN CAPITAL ; 4. International Labor Migration in the Pacific Rim, Philip Martin ; 5. Age Compositional Shifts and Changing Intergenerational Transfers in Selected Asian Countries, Naohiro Ogawa ; 6. Human Capital trends in the Pacific Rim, Anne Goujon ; PART III. PERSPECTIVES ON ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT ; 7. Economic Growth and Performance on the Pacific Rim, Barry Bosworth and Susan Collins ; 8. The New Structural Economics and Strategies for Sustained Economic Development in the Pacific Island Countries, Justin Yifu Lin and Hinh T. Dinh ; 9. The Evolution of Fiscal Developments and Policies in the Pacific Rim, Manmohan Singh Kumar, Nirvikar Singh and Jaejoon Woo ; PART IV. GOVERNANCE AND ECONOMIC INTERACTIONS ; 10. Asia in Global Economic Governance, Peter Petri and Wendy Dobson ; 11. Geoeconomics Versus Geopolitics: Implications For Pacific Asia, Devesh Kapur and Manik Suri ; 12. The Political Economy of Asia-Pacific Trade Agreements, John Ravenhill ; 13. Global Production Sharing and Trade Patterns in East Asia, Prem-chandra Athukorala ; 14. Foreign Trade of the Pacific-Rim Economies, Kar-Yiu Wong ; PART V. INDUSTRY, POLICY AND INNOVATION ; 15. Are the Geese Still Flying? Catch-up Industrialization in a Changing International Economic Environment, Inderjit N. Kaur ; 16. Multinational Corporations, FDI and the East Asian Economic Integration, Tzu-Han Yang and Deng-Shing Huang ; 17. The Impact of Industrial Policy on Asian Growth: An Example from Taiwan, Howard Pack ; 18. Creative Industries: Socio-Economic Transformation as the New Face of Innovation, Ted Tschang ; 19. The Road to Innovation in East Asia, Shahid Yusuf ; PART VI. MACROECONOMICS AND FINANCE ; 20. Asian Financial Crises, Anne Krueger ; 21. The "Impossible Trinity," the International Monetary Framework, and the Pacific Rim, Joshua Aizenman and Hiro Ito ; 22. Rethinking Capital Account Liberalization, Maria Socorro Gochoco, Bautista and Noli R. Sotocinal ; 23. Asian Currencies in the Global Imbalance and Global Financial Crisis, Eiji Ogawa and Chikafumi Nakamura ; 24. Rebalancing of the World Economy and Asia, Menzie Chinn and Hiro Ito ; 25. China's Financial Openness and Asset Return Linkages in East Asia, Reuven Glick and Michael Hutchison ; 26. The Offshore RMB market in Hong Kong and RMB Internationalization, Yin-Wong Cheung and Hui Miao