Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) have proliferated in East Asia as regional economies rush to catch up with the rest of the world - but what difference do they make? This book answers that question by providing an assessment of the quality and impact of FTAs in the region.

An Analysis of the Restrictions on Foreign Direct Investment in Free Trade Agreements (S Urata & J Sasuya); Assessing the Economic Impacts of Free Trade Agreements: A Computable Equilibrium Approach (K Abe); Impacts of Japanese FTAs/EPAs: Post-Evaluation from Initial Data (M Ande); Market Access in FTAs: Assessment Based on Rules of Origin and Agricultural Trade Liberalization (I Cheong & J Cho); On the Comparison of Safeguard Mechanisms of Free Trade Agreements (A Kotera & T Kitamura); Services in Free Trade Agreements (R Ochiai et al.); On the Use of FTAs by Japanese Firms (K Takahashi & S Urata); Impacts of Free Trade Agreements on Trade Flows: An Application of the Gravity Modeling Approach (S Urata & M Okabe).