Previous studies on the impacts of free trade agreements (FTAs) in East Asia have assumed full utilization of preferences. The evidence suggests that this assumption is seriously in error, with the estimated uptake particularly low in East Asia. In this paper, we assume a more realistic utilization rate in estimating impacts. We find that actual utilization rates significantly diminish the bene...

I. Introduction Even in states that are, by most standards, flourishing, the demand for public security often exceeds the capacity of states to provide it. So it is that throughout most of the world, the state no longer has a monopoly on policing. Bayley and Shearing (1996; 2001) speak of the multilateralization of policing, by which they mean the variety of institutional forms, public, private...

This paper describes further efforts towards antenna geometry estimation in the WPI Precision Personnel Locator system, which is under development as a portable, zero-fixedinfrastructure, and spectrally compliant RF-based system for location and tracking of personnel situated in indoor environments. The system consists of transmitters worn by individuals to be tracked, and receiver hardware whi...

With the Doha Round of the WTO stalled indefinitely, bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) have proliferated. While countries in Asia were relative latecomers to preferential liberalization, they have been catching-up rapidly. Indeed, the proliferation of FTAs has been greatest in Asia over the past decade. As of January 2013, there are 109 FTAs involving an Asian country already in effect, 13...

APEC Study Centre, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand     Abstract:   One of the key sets of questions underlying Asia Pacific economic cooperation over the last decade has been over the nature and form of the regional trade architecture that would gradually emerge from the turmoil of the Asia-Pacific “noodle bowl” of bilateral and plurilateral FTAs, and how that architecture...

I. After World War II, an all-encompassing effort was undertaken to eliminate for the future the risk of war between European countries which twice in this century had spread to the whole world. From the beginning, also economic cooperation arid monetary integration were politically motivated--by tying the European countries together in a common institutional framework and by rebuilding their e...