The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of the Pacific Rim

The Pacific Rim is a dynamic as well as diverse economic region, containing the world's three largest economies (US, China and Japan, measured by GDP at PPP). Many of the world's fasting growing and emerging market economies lie in this region. Trans-Pacific economic exchange, including trade and capital movements, has been an important driver of the world economy, contributing to growth as well as global imbalances. Within the Asia-Pacific region also, there has been an increase in trade and investment, as well as the development of value chain linkages through outsourcing and foreign direct investment. How to manage this economic integration and the vagaries of globalization, while supporting continued high growth has been an important theme of economic debate in the region. This Handbook will begin with institutional and historical perspectives, go on to consider various dimensions of economic policies, then examine the growth process and specific challenges to growth, and finally consider the key theme of regional economic integration in its many dimensions, including trade, investment, monetary coordination, crisis management and value networks. Available in OSO: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/oso/public/content/oho_economics/9780199751990/toc.html Contributors to this volume - Joshua Aizenman is Dockson Chair in Economics and International Relations at the University of Southern California and the NBER USC. Prema-chandra Athukorala is Professor of Economics at the Crawford School of Public Policy at Australian National University. Barry Bosworth is Senior Fellow of Economic Research at the Brookings Institution. Yin-Wong Cheung is Professor of Economics at University of California, Santa Cruz. Menzie Chinn is Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at University of Wisconsin. Susan Collins is Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Professor of Economics in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan, as well as Senior Fellow of Economic Research at the Brookings Institution. Hinh T. Dinh is Lead Economist in the Office of the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank. Wendy Dobson is Co-Director of the Rotman Institute for International Business and Adjunct Professor of Business Economics at Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Reuven Glick is Group Vice President of International Research of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Maria Socorro Gochoco?Bautista is Senior Economic Advisor at the Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank and Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Sterling Chair in Monetary Economics in the School of Economics at University of the Philippines. Anne Goujon is Research Scientist of Population Dynamics and Forecasting at Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences. Deng-Shing Huang is Researcher at the Institute of Economics at Academia Sinica. Michael Hutchison is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Co-Director of the Santa Cruz Center for International Economics. Hiro Ito is Associate Professor of Economics at Portland State University. Eric Jones is Professorial Fellow in Economic History at the University of Melbourne Business School. Devesh Kapur is Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India at University of Pennsylvania. Inderjit N. Kaur is Research Fellow at University of San Francisco. Anne Krueger is Professor of International Economics in the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Manmohan Singh Kumar is Assistant Director in the Finance Department and Chief of General Resources and SDR Policies Division at the International Monetary Fund. Justin Yifu Lin is Director of the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University. He was formerly World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of Development Economics. Philip Martin is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Chair of the UC Comparative Immigration & Integration Program, and Editor of Migration News and Rural Migration News at University of California, Davis. Hui Miao is China and Hong Kong Equity Strategist and Director at Deutsche Bank. Chikafumi Nakamura is Assistant Professor of Economic Systems Analaysis at Kyusha University. Ilan Noy is Associate Professor of Economics at Victoria Business School, New Zealand and University of Hawai'i, Manoa. Eiji Ogawa is Professor of International Finance at Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of Commerce and Management. Naohiro Ogawa is Professor of Human Development Science at Nihon University. Howard Pack is Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy in the Wharton School of Business at University of Pennsylvania. Peter Petri is Carl Shapiro Professor of International Finance at Brandeis University. John Ravenhill is Head of the School of Politics and International Relations in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. David Roland-Holst is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and the Department of Economics at University of California, Berkeley. Nirvikar Singh is Professor of Econonomics at University of California, Santa Cruz. Noli R. Sotocinal is Senior Economist at the Asian Development Bank. Manik Suri is a J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School, Visiting Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Advanced Study of India, and a Truman Security Fellow. Ted Tschang is Associate Professor of Strategic Management in the Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University. Kar-Yiu Wong is Professor of Economics at the University of Washington, Director of the Research Center for International Economics (RCIE), and President of the Asia-Pacific Economic Association (APEA). Jaejoon Woo is Associate Professor of Economics at DePaul University and Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund. Tzu-Han Yang is Professor in the Department of Public Finance at National Taipei University. Shahid Yusuf is Chief Economist of The Growth Dialogue at George Washington University.