Did Economic Cooperation Encourage Trade in Essential Medical Goods? Empirical Evidence from the Asia-Pacific During COVID-19

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aut.relation.journalAsian Economic Journal
dc.contributor.authorSen, Rahul
dc.contributor.authorBasu Das, Sanchita
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-03T04:59:53Z
dc.date.available2024-04-03T04:59:53Z
dc.date.issued2024-03-19
dc.description.abstractOur paper empirically investigates the role of economic cooperation involving trade in coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-related essential medical goods—vaccines and their value chains, personal protective equipment, and diagnostic test kits—across 29 Asia and the Pacific economies. The paper incorporates vaccines and their global value chain products trade for the first time in the empirical literature. We further investigate whether trade facilitation, proxied by membership in regional trade agreements (RTAs), can help mitigate any adverse impact on trade in essential medical goods, applying a structural gravity framework. The results confirm that while trade is critical for Asian economies, its nature differs. Low-income economies are largely dependent on imports, whereas selected middle- and high-income economies are part of two-way trade and engaged in the low end of the vaccine value chain. We find that the onset of the pandemic has hurt exports of these goods. This adverse effect is found to be lowered for economies engaged in RTAs. This emphasizes the role of governments in committing to RTAs and implementing trade facilitation measures.
dc.identifier.citationAsian Economic Journal, ISSN: 1351-3958 (Print); 1467-8381 (Online), Wiley. doi: 10.1111/asej.12317
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/asej.12317
dc.identifier.issn1351-3958
dc.identifier.issn1467-8381
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/17407
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.urihttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/asej.12317
dc.rights© 2024 The Authors. Asian Economic Journal published by East Asian Economic Association and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject14 Economics
dc.subjectEconomics
dc.subject3801 Applied economics
dc.subject3802 Econometrics
dc.subject3803 Economic theory
dc.titleDid Economic Cooperation Encourage Trade in Essential Medical Goods? Empirical Evidence from the Asia-Pacific During COVID-19
dc.typeJournal Article
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