The Political Economy of an EU-Malaysia FTA

被引：3

作者：

Napoli, Christopher ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Nottingham, Fac Social Sci, Sch Polit Hist & Int Relat, Malaysia Campus, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

来源：

JOURNAL OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN ECONOMIES | 2013年 / 30卷 / 02期

关键词：

European Union; Malaysia; trade negotiations; foreign direct investment; political economy;

D O I：

10.1355/ae30-2g

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

In September 2010, the European Union (EU) and Malaysia began negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA). This paper examines the prospects and challenges facing the EU-Malaysia FTA negotiations from a political economy perspective. It will argue two points. First, while a deep FTA would offer significant welfare gains to Malaysia, a deep agreement is unlikely to be negotiated. This is because of the difficulty Malaysia would have in opening its services markets and changing investment regulations. Second, even a deep FTA would be of little economic or strategic use for the EU. Both points beg the question: why bother negotiating an FTA?

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页数：15