... countries in recent years. ASEAN's export to the East Asia increased 275 percent during 1998‐2007. The competition among ASEAN members, especially the ASEAN‐5 (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand) [2] , are intensive in the East Asia market. Figure 1 shows the export growth...

... Philippines Indonesia Malaysia Singapore Thailand South East Asia Macroeconomics Economic convergence ASEAN Compatibility Ongoing cointegration Economic integration Economic cooperation is seen as an opportunity for greater international trade and investment. It is an economic strategy...

...) framework to test the cointegration and causality patterns using Singapore as a case. Findings Apart from the presence of a unique long‐run relationship, the findings also show evidence of long‐run causality, running from employment in manufacturing and services to FDI inflows, and from FDI inflows...

... for the existence of output and trade (export and imports separately) using the conditional variances of the variables and then specifying an autoregressive conditional heteroskedastic (ARCH) process in a vector error correction model. Findings Using Singapore as a case study, the paper finds the two‐way...

...Ananda Jayawickrama; Shandre M. Thangavelu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the trade linkages and degree of export competitiveness between Singapore, China and India. Design/methodology/approach Balassa's export performance index and the dynamic RCA index was adopted...

...S.M. Thangavelu; David T. Owyong This paper examines the impact of export performance and scale economies on total factor productivity in Singapore's manufacturing sector. A panel data of total of ten major industries within its manufacturing sector are analysed over the period 1974‐1995...

...Augustine C. Arize Applies new tests for parameter instability in cointegrated models to evaluate the traditional export demand function. The determinants of exports considered are world real income, export price and competitors’ export price. The data for Singapore (a newly industrializing economy...

... the required level of predictive accuracy for such a venture to pay off. Hong Kong and Singapore stock markets are chosen due to the likeliness for investors to switch investments between these two markets. Three different frequencies of portfolio revision together with three levels of transaction costs...

...Lin‐Yeok Tan; Suchin Virabhak This paper examines and analyses the TFPG performance of individual service industries in Singapore. TFPG of services were highly cyclical, indicating the overwhelming vagaries of external demand in this small and open economy. Although the TFPG of most services were...

...Peter Wilson Investigates the time series relationship between export earnings instability and instability in receipts from international tourism for Singapore between 1972 and 1988. Computes four standardized instability indexes for both merchandize exports and international travel receipts,having...