Priorities And Pathways In Services Reform Part I

Author : Philippa Dee
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814447744

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This book presents a state-of-the-art evaluation of the benefits and costs of behind-the-border services reform. It introduces new, second-generation methods for quantifying regulatory barriers and applies those methods to a wide range of services sectors — financial, infrastructure and social — in a broad spectrum of countries. It uses advanced modeling techniques to project the sectoral, economy-wide and regional effects of services reforms, as well as highlight their adjustment costs. The empirical results offer fresh guidance to policy-makers, who need better information bases with which to prioritize services reforms and devise pathways to achieving them. The empirical methods provide invaluable tools to academics, researchers and policy advisors, who can use them to further improve those information bases. Priorities and Pathways in Services Reform: Part I — Quantitative Studies presents new methodological frameworks for assessing and prioritizing services reforms, and provides an up-to-date evaluation of the policy impacts across a range of services markets and countries. Part II — Political Economy furthers the conversation by analyzing what it takes for a reform to succeed. You may also be interested in Priorities and Pathways in Services Reform: Part II — Political Economy Studies Contents:Measuring and Modelling Regulatory Restrictions in Services (Philippa Dee)Impact of Regulatory Barriers to Trade in Insurance Services (Philippa Dee and Huong Dinh)Impact of Regulatory Barriers to Trade in Banking Services (Huong Dinh)Regulatory Restrictions in Logistics Services (Claire Hollweg and Marn-Heong Wong)Impact of Air and Maritime Restrictions on International Transport Margins (Patricia Sourdin)Restructuring and Productivity in Rail Transport (Pedro Cantos, José M Pastor and Lorenzo Serrano)Sectoral Impacts of Reforms in Electricity and Gas Markets (Philippa Dee)Impact of Trade Barriers on the Productivity of Higher Education Institutions (Philippa Dee)Barriers to Trade in Healthcare Services in ASEAN Countries (Philippa Dee)Assessing Services Reform (Philippa Dee) Readership: Applied economics, graduate students, researchers and policy advisors in the areas of structural reform and economic integration. Keywords:Services;Structural Reform;Regulatory Reform;Services Trade Reform;Behind-the-Border Reform;Regulatory Restrictions;Regulatory Barriers;Services Trade Barriers;Empirical;Quantitative;Modeling;Insurance;Banking;Finance;Logistics;Air Transport;Maritime Transport;Rail Transport;Telecommunications;Energy;Electricity;Gas;Higher Education;Health;Healthcare;APECKey Features:It presents state-of-the-art techniques for assessing behind-the-border services reformIt brings a number of applications to various services sectors and countries together in one place (for the first time in a long while)It gives fresh insights into priorities for services reform, and how to assess them

Author : Philippa S. Dee
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814447737

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This book presents a state-of-the-art evaluation of the benefits and costs of behind-the-border services reform. It introduces new, second-generation methods for quantifying regulatory barriers and applies those methods to a wide range of services sectors OCo financial, infrastructure and social OCo in a broad spectrum of countries. It uses advanced modeling techniques to project the sectoral, economy-wide and regional effects of services reforms, as well as highlight their adjustment costs. The empirical results offer fresh guidance to policy-makers, who need better information bases with which to prioritize services reforms and devise pathways to achieving them. The empirical methods provide invaluable tools to academics, researchers and policy advisors, who can use them to further improve those information bases. Priorities and Pathways in Services Reform: Part I OCo Quantitative Studies presents new methodological frameworks for assessing and prioritizing services reforms, and provides an up-to-date evaluation of the policy impacts across a range of services markets and countries. Part II OCo Political Economy furthers the conversation by analyzing what it takes for a reform to succeed.

Author : Christopher Findlay
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814504690

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Priorities and Pathways in Services Reform by Christopher Findlay Pdf

Services markets remain highly regulated and international trade and investment is restricted. Previous works have identified the scope for significant gains from trade, yet those results are often debated and the progress on reform has been slow. Parts I and II in Priorities and Pathways in Services Reform help fill the gap in the research around this debate. Part I OCo Quantitative Studies contains up-to-date assessment and evaluations of the impact of policy in a range of services markets in different countries (through cross-country modelling of the impacts of a reform program). Part II OCo Political Economy Studies builds on this to address the understanding of what makes a reform successful, going beyond a quantification of the benefits of reform. This book fills that gap by reporting and reviewing the experience of reform across different sectors and countries. Ten key lessons are identified for successful reform. Readers will find fresh insights into managing complex issues in services reform."

Author : Christopher Findlay
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814504706

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Priorities and Pathways in Services Reform — Part II by Christopher Findlay Pdf

Services markets remain highly regulated and international trade and investment is restricted. Previous works have identified the scope for significant gains from trade, yet those results are often debated and the progress on reform has been slow. Parts I and II in Priorities and Pathways in Services Reform help fill the gap in the research around this debate. Part I — Quantitative Studies contains up-to-date assessment and evaluations of the impact of policy in a range of services markets in different countries (through cross-country modelling of the impacts of a reform program). Part II — Political Economy Studies builds on this to address the understanding of what makes a reform successful, going beyond a quantification of the benefits of reform. This book fills that gap by reporting and reviewing the experience of reform across different sectors and countries. Ten key lessons are identified for successful reform. Readers will find fresh insights into managing complex issues in services reform. You may also be interested in Priorities and Pathways in Services Reform: Part I — Quantitative Studies. Contents:Overview (Christopher Findlay)Telecommunications in Papua New Guinea (Ronald Duncan)Gas in Thailand (Deunden Nikomborirak)Electricity in Russia (Alexandra Sidorenko)Electricity in Korea (Seung-Hoon Lee)Rail Transport in Chile (Raimundo Soto)Rail Transport in New Zealand (Dave Heatley and Margot Schwass)Maritime Transport in Australia and the United States (Fabien Bertho)Road Transport in Thailand (Narong Pomlaktong, Rattana Jongwilaiwan, Prakai Theerawattanakul and Rapee Pholpanich)China's Services Policy Reform Before and After the Global Financial Crisis (Fan Ying)Services Sector Reforms in India: Update and Challenges (Rupa Chanda and Pralok Gupta)Services Trade Reform in the European Union — The EU Services Directive (Anne McNaughton and Paul Furlong) Readership: Applied economists, graduate students, researchers, professionals and policy advisors in the areas of structural reform and economic integration. Keywords:Services;Structural Reform;Regulatory Reform;Services Trade Reform;Behind-The-Border Reform;Regulatory Restrictions;Regulatory Barriers;Services Trade Barriers;Empirical;Quantitative;Maritime Transport;Rail Transport;Telecommunications;Energy;Electricity;Gas;APECKey Features:Identifies ten key lessons for successful reform by bringing together studies of different sectors across various countriesProvides fresh insights into managing complex issues in services reform, above and beyond quantifying the benefits of reform

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Service industries
ISBN : OCLC:849929535

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Priorities and Pathways in Services Reform by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dee Philippa,Philippa S. Dee
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814508759

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Services Trade Reform by Dee Philippa,Philippa S. Dee Pdf

The book shows policy makers how to approach the economics and politics of services trade reform domestically, consistent with relevant special features of services trade. It shows analysts the full policy implications of those special features, including what they mean and how services reform should be treated in the future in national and international forums.

Author : Deborah K. Elms,Arian Hassani,Patrick Low
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108416153

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The Intangible Economy by Deborah K. Elms,Arian Hassani,Patrick Low Pdf

"Highlights the evolution and significance of services in the global economy, including as a vehicle for development"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Douglas Darrell Evanoff
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814449922

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The Role of Central Banks in Financial Stability by Douglas Darrell Evanoff Pdf

The two most topical issues in current financial markets deal with the causes of the recent financial crisis and the means to prevent future crises. This book addresses the latter and stresses a major shift in most countries toward a better understanding of financial stability and how it can be achieved. In particular, the papers in this volume examine the recent change in emphasis at central banks with regard to financial stability. For example: What were the cross-country differences in emphasis on financial stability in the past Did these differences appear to affect the extent of the adverse impact of the financial crisis on individual countries What are perceived to be the major future threats to financial stability These and related issues are discussed in the book by well-known experts in the field OCo some of the best minds in the world pursuing financial stability. Following the global financial crisis, significant reforms have been initiated in many countries to address financial stability more directly, frequently focusing on macroprudential policy frameworks in which central banks play a more active role."

Author : Viral V. Acharya,Thorsten Beck
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814520294

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The Social Value of the Financial Sector by Viral V. Acharya,Thorsten Beck Pdf

As a result of the recent financial crisis, there has been significant public debate on the role of the financial sector in bringing about the Great Depression. More generally, there has been debate about whether the current industry structure has enhanced social welfare or served a detrimental role. This book is a collection of papers presented at the conference held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, in November 2012 that examined the social value of the financial sector as currently structured. Issues evaluated include what are the perceived benefits and costs of the current financial system How valuable have industry innovations been for society Should regulation be used to move the industry in a direction thought to be more valuable for society Should big banks be broken up What are the welfare implications of the current industry structure In the book, leading industry scholars debate these issues with a goal of influencing public policy toward the industry.

Author : Douglas D Evanoff,Cornelia Holthausen,George G Kaufman,Manfred Kremer
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814449939

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The Role of Central Banks in Financial Stability by Douglas D Evanoff,Cornelia Holthausen,George G Kaufman,Manfred Kremer Pdf

The two most topical issues in current financial markets deal with the causes of the recent financial crisis and the means to prevent future crises. This book addresses the latter and stresses a major shift in most countries toward a better understanding of financial stability and how it can be achieved. In particular, the papers in this volume examine the recent change in emphasis at central banks with regard to financial stability. For example: What were the cross-country differences in emphasis on financial stability in the past? Did these differences appear to affect the extent of the adverse impact of the financial crisis on individual countries? What are perceived to be the major future threats to financial stability? These and related issues are discussed in the book by well-known experts in the field — some of the best minds in the world pursuing financial stability. Following the global financial crisis, significant reforms have been initiated in many countries to address financial stability more directly, frequently focusing on macroprudential policy frameworks in which central banks play a more active role. Contents:Special Addresses:The (Changing) Role of Central Banks in Financial Stability Policies (Peter Praet)The Role of Central Banks in Financial Stability: How Has It Changed? (Willem H Buiter)Pursuing Financial Stability at the Federal Reserve (Janet L Yellen)The Role of Central Banks in Financial Stability: Historical Review and Critique:Financial Stability: Lessons Learned from the Recent Crisis and Implications for the Federal Reserve (Nellie Liang)Role of Central Banks in Financial Stability: Lessons from the Experience of the Bank of Japan (Takeo Hoshi)Overcoming the Fear of Free Falling: Monetary Policy Graduation in Emerging Markets (Carlos A Vegh and Guillermo Vuletin)Can We Identify the Financial Cycle? (Mathias Drehmann, Claudio Borio and Kostas Tsatsaronis)Central Banks and Asset Price Bubbles:Low Interest Rates and Housing Bubbles: Still No Smoking Gun (Kenneth N Kuttner)Classic FIT and Lean FIT: Is Inflation-Targeting Guilty of Causing the Financial Instability of 2007–2009? (Takatoshi Ito)Current, Past, and Potential Future Threats to Financial Stability:Bank Capital Regulations: Learning the Right Lessons from the Crisis (Asli Demirgüç-Kunt)International Monetary Reform: Exchange Rates or Interest Rates? (Ronald McKinnon)Threats to Financial Stability in Emerging Markets: The New and Very Active Role of Central Banks (Liliana Rojas-Suarez)The Social Productivity of the Financial Sector:In Defense of Wall Street: The Social Productivity of the Financial System (Ross Levine)Output Growth Variability: The Role of Financial Markets (Alexander Popov)Occupying the Wrong Street? The Social Productivity of the Financial Sector: Some Comments (Gerard Caprio, Jr.)Open Issues in the Regulatory Debate: Failure Resolutions, Bailouts, Moral Hazard, and Market Discipline:Bankers and Brokers First: Loose Ends in the Theory of Central Bank Policymaking (Edward J Kane)The Elusive Scale Economies of the Largest Banks and Their Implications for Global Competitiveness (Joseph P Hughes)The Ex Ante versus Ex Post Effect of Public Guarantees (Evren Damar, Reint Gropp and Adi Mordel)Real and Imaginary Resolution Options for Large Financial Institutions (David A Skeel, Jr.)Policy Panel: Where to from Here?:Is Our Economy's Financial Sector Worth What It Costs Us? (Benjamin M Friedman)The Eurozone Crisis: Causes, Remedy, and Misperceptions (Richard C Koo)Macroprudential and Monetary Policies (Frederic S Mishkin)The Eurozone Crisis (Richard Portes)The Way Forward — Central Banks with Financial Stability Mandates: The Case of the Eurosystem (Anne Sibert) Readership: Undergraduate/graduate students, researchers, and academics in international finance and banking; financial regulators, financiers, and bankers. Keywords:Financial Stability;Financial Regulation;Macroprudential Regulation;Systemic Risk;Dodd-Frank;Financial CrisisKey Features:Examines the changing role of central banks with regard to financial stability. This includes regulatory reform across a number of countriesContributors include representatives of central banks, regulatory and supervisory agencies, financial institutions, trade associations, and academic institutions from around the globe

Author : Christopher Findlay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317496588

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ASEAN and Regional Free Trade Agreements by Christopher Findlay Pdf

Efforts to use existing trade agreements to build a larger regional agreement face many challenges. This book considers this problem with reference to ASEAN’s current agreements with key partners and the interest to build the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). The analysis of the options is framed by a focus on the use of supply chains in international business. Issues considered include those related to reductions in tariffs, trade facilitation, the treatment of investment and of services and the definition of rules of origin. The work is informed by case studies of supply chains in automobile and electronics, and in a professional service sector. The book provides a set of priority actions for better progress in taking a bottom-up approach to building RCEP.

Author : Kimura, Fukunari,Pangestu, Mari,Thangavelu, Shandre M.,Findlay, Christopher
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788975162

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Handbook on East Asian Economic Integration by Kimura, Fukunari,Pangestu, Mari,Thangavelu, Shandre M.,Findlay, Christopher Pdf

This comprehensive Handbook provides an in-depth analysis of the nature of East Asian economic integration alongside thoughtful insights into contemporary issues, such as agricultural development, structural transformation and East Asian trade, alongside skills and human capital development policies of ASEAN. Contributors also provide detailed explanations on trade, poverty and Aid for Trade, institutional reforms, regulatory reform and measuring integration.

Author : Ganesan Vethiah,Mohd Yazid Zul Kepli,Muhammad Zulhilmi Mohd Nizam,Nur Fadhlina Chan Mahadie Chan,Huda Mahmoud,Jeslyn Tan,Matthew Van Huizen
Publisher : Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA)
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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MIMA Bulletin (Volume 33 2024) by Ganesan Vethiah,Mohd Yazid Zul Kepli,Muhammad Zulhilmi Mohd Nizam,Nur Fadhlina Chan Mahadie Chan,Huda Mahmoud,Jeslyn Tan,Matthew Van Huizen Pdf

Special focus: Passage of Foreign Fishing Vessels and Enforcement Regimes of Coastal States with Reference to Malaysian Practice Description: The creation and widespread adoption of 200 nautical miles (nmi) of exclusive economic zone (EEZ) under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) represents a dramatic geographic and functional expansion of coastal states’ (refer to all the international conventions) jurisdiction – probably the largest transfer of resources to national jurisdiction in history. These zones cover about 36 per cent (%) of the surface of the seas, 90% of fisheries, and 43% of the value of the world’s “ecosystem services”. Thus, to undertake conservation measures and sustainable exploitation of fisheries and other living resources, which provide livelihoods for more than 59.5 million people and a main source of animal protein for 40% of the eight billion global population, the coastal states are empowered to undertake enforcement measures as provided by Article 73 and, to a certain extent, Article 111 in harmony with Article 300 of UNCLOS. Bearing in mind that an enhanced monitoring, control, and surveillance (MCS) on the marine fishing operation is an important tool in fisheries law and enforcement, this paper specifically discusses contentious issues of whether foreign fishing vessels (FFVs) and foreign vessels involved in fisheries-related activities (FVFRAs) enjoy the absolute right of innocent passage and freedom of navigation or limited navigational rights in all maritime zones —including the continental shelf of coastal states as provided by various articles in the UNCLOS — or they are bound to comply to the respective coastal states’ domestic laws, that is, through notification or authorisation as a mandatory requirement from relevant coastal states’ authorities, prior to entering and exiting any of their maritime zones. In addition to that, this paper also focuses on the effectiveness of enforcement measures under Section 16 of the Malaysian Fisheries Act 1985 (as amended) by relevant Malaysian maritime enforcement agencies against FFV for the failure to notify, and similar application of domestic laws and practices by other coastal states and issues related to “creeping jurisdiction” in relation to fisheries-extended jurisdiction under the notion of “territorial temptation” of coastal states. Content: - Editorial - From the Bridge - Special Focus: Passage of Foreign Fishing Vessels and Enforcement Regimes of Coastal States with Reference to Malaysian Practice (Ganesan Vethiah, Mohd Yazid Zul Kepli, Muhammad Zulhilmi Mohd Nizam & Nur Fadhlina Chan Mahadie Chan) - Unlock the Malaysian Ocean Economy with Trade Facilitation Laws (Huda Mahmoud) - Strengthening International Legal Regime Governing Submarine Cables (Jeslyn Tan) - Time Overdue for Maritime Law Reform (Matthew Van Huizen) - Special Interview with Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Dr. Sulaiman Mahbob

Author : Fernanda Nicola,Bill Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107118898

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EU Law Stories by Fernanda Nicola,Bill Davies Pdf

This book retells the multiple stories behind the rulings of the European Court, revealing their context, their history and the legal and non-legal strategies of their actors.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Economics
ISBN : OSU:32435085444032

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Journal of Economic Literature by Anonim Pdf