As a director of Trade, Investment band Innovation Division of the United Nations ESCAP, I guided and supervised the analytical work on areas covered by the Division’s program in areas of trade, investment and technology, and innovation. For example, I have led research work on trade policy and trade-related issues incorporated in, inter alia, the Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report from 2009 to 2021. All research was geared towards creating applicable and adequate evidence for improved trade, investment, and innovation policymaking in the context of sustainable development. This spans from mapping and monitoring of preferential trading arrangements in the Asia-Pacific region (including further development of an analytically-friendly database known as the Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Agreements Database, APTIAD); to providing a measurement of the impact of alternative policy options or policy scenarios, and developing new analytical tools.
Personally, I have been paying special attention to the role of the services trade and in particular digitally enabled services in the development; organization of regional and GVCs; evolution of regionalism under the rules of the multilateral trading system; sustainable trade and investment, regulatory issues for the digital economy; frontier technologies and inclusive future of work, and enabling a bigger role of women in influencing evidence-based policymaking in trade, investment, and innovation.
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Trade statistics in policymaking: A handbook of commonly used trade indices and indicators | M Mikic, J Gilbert | 2007 | BOOK | This reference material is a compilation of work associated with tracking and analyzing regional trade flows and regionalism processes. This work has been pursued by the Trade … | ||
ASEAN and trade integration | M Mikic | 2009 | This paper reviews the progress in trade-related areas of ASEAN Economic Community to be established by 2015. It provides empirical evidence and qualitative analysis on how the … | |||
Perspectives on IPEF from Aotearoa New Zealand
| M Mikic | chapter | Asia had been readying itself to claim the twenty-first century as its own. Economic gravity was undoubtedly shifting from the “West” to Asia. However, the GFC has left a lasting mark … | |||
Perspectives on IPEF from Aotearoa New Zealand | M Mikic | 2023 | working paper | Asia had been readying itself to claim the twenty-first century as its own. Economic gravity was undoubtedly shifting from the “West” to Asia. However, the GFC has left a lasting mark … | ||
Advances in Feminising WTO, ch. 3 in Trade Policy and Gender Equality edited by Amrita Bahri; Dorotea López and Jan Yves Remy, Cambridge University Press | M Mikic | 2023 | chapter | Asia had been readying itself to claim the twenty-first century as its own. Economic gravity was undoubtedly shifting from the “West” to Asia. However, the GFC has left a lasting mark … | ||
Gender and Services Trade in the APEC Region, APEC Group on Services, Sep 2023, | M Mikic, K Kuhlmann, B Kotschwar, C de la Paz, S Stephenson | 2023 | report | Asia had been readying itself to claim the twenty-first century as its own. Economic gravity was undoubtedly shifting from the “West” to Asia. However, the GFC has left a lasting mark … | ||
Supply Chain Resilience: Built-in, not Commandeered in Think20 India 2023: Critical, Constructive, Conclusive, Harsh V Pant and Shairee Malhotra, Eds., Observer Research Foundation, August 2023, pp. 10-16 | M Mikic | 2023 | chapter | Asia had been readying itself to claim the twenty-first century as its own. Economic gravity was undoubtedly shifting from the “West” to Asia. However, the GFC has left a lasting mark … | ||
Supply Chain Resilience, Friend-shoring, and
the Pursuit of Non-Economic Objectives, T20 Policy Brief | M Mikic | 2023 | working paper | Asia had been readying itself to claim the twenty-first century as its own. Economic gravity was undoubtedly shifting from the “West” to Asia. However, the GFC has left a lasting mark … | ||
Services to Support the Movement of Essential Goods: Background Paper on Logistics Services | M Mikic and S. Stephenson | 2022 | report | Asia had been readying itself to claim the twenty-first century as its own. Economic gravity was undoubtedly shifting from the “West” to Asia. However, the GFC has left a lasting mark … | ||
Toward Future-proofing Global Value Chains”, ch 1 in ASEAN and Global Value Chains: Locking in Resilience and Sustainability”, ADB, 2023, pp.1-44. | M Mikic | 2022 | chapter | Asia had been readying itself to claim the twenty-first century as its own. Economic gravity was undoubtedly shifting from the “West” to Asia. However, the GFC has left a lasting mark … | ||
Trading into sustainable development in Shaping the Future of Regional Cooperation in Asia and the Pacific, UN ESCAP, pp. 56-62
| M Mikic | 2022 | chapter | Asia had been readying itself to claim the twenty-first century as its own. Economic gravity was undoubtedly shifting from the “West” to Asia. However, the GFC has left a lasting mark … | ||
Asian Century and Post-Pandemic Adjustments in Asian Yearbook of International Economic Law, Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/16517_2021_6 | M Mikic | 2021 | chapter | Asia had been readying itself to claim the twenty-first century as its own. Economic gravity was undoubtedly shifting from the “West” to Asia. However, the GFC has left a lasting mark … | ||
The impact of artificial intelligence on the future of work in The Home in Digital Age edited by Antonio Argandoña, Joy Malala, Richard C. Peatfield https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003080114 | M Mikic, J Malala | 2021 | chapter | This chapter explores the disruptive nature of artificial intelligence (AI) and the nature of work in the future (or, as it has become customarily referred to as “the future of work”). The … | ||
Healthcare products trade and external shocks: The US-China trade war and COVID-19 pandemic | M Mikic, A Puutio, J Gallagher | 2020 | working paper PDF | In 2019 and the early months of 2020, global trade faced two major albeit very different shocks, namely the United States-China trade war and the cascading response of the … | ||
The effect of the World Finan cial Crisis on developing countries: An ini tial assessment | M de Paiva Abreu, M Agarwal… | 2009 | PDF | The Effect of the World Financial Crisis on Developing Countries: An Initial Assessment Page 1 CIGI Task Force on Developing Countries The Effect of the World Financial Crisis on Developing … | ||
Health-related services in multilateral and preferential trade arrangements in Asia and the Pacific | M Mikic | 2007 | working paper PDF | In many developing countries, the health-care sector is under-developed, lacking basic infrastructure and human capital, and attracting little attention from investors and … | ||
Beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: coping with the'new normal'in supply chains | W Anukoonwattaka, M Mikic | 2020 | working paperPDF | Among other things, the COVID-19 crisis has called for the reassessment of risks and sourcing criteria in global value chains (GVCs) and for their shortening. This, in turn, has … | ||
Tourism's contribution to the Yugoslav economy | M Miki_ | 1988 | working paper | Tourism is an important sector of the post-industrial economies of the developed nations. This article concentrates on the contribution of tourism to the balance of payments in … | ||
New Zealand-Europe trade relations: reconciling hypercompetition with the tyranny of distance | M Benson-Rea, M Mikic | 2005 | article | This paper offers an analysis of business relations between New Zealand and Europe with a focus on the firm and sector level strategies being pursued by New Zealand organisations in … | ||
Asia-Pacific regionalism quo vadis? Charting the territory for new integration routes | T Bonapace, M Mikic | 2007 | chapter | Over the past five years, members and associate members of UNESCAP have led the world in initiating negotiations on new preferential trade agreements (PTAs) 2–among each other … | ||
Crisis-era state measures and Asia-Pacific economies | M Mikic | 2009 | PDF | There is ample evidence that in times of economic downturn and contraction in aggregate demand, governments react by imposing protectionist measures in the hope of" saving" the … | ||
Imperfect labor mobility and unemployment in LDCs: Comment | J Gilbert, M Mikic | 1998 | article | In a recent paper in this journal, Parai and Beladi (1997; henceforth PB) extend the wellknown Harris-Todaro model to consider imperfect labor mobility. They find unambiguous … | ||
III. Multilateralizing regionalism: Towards an integrated and outward-oriented Asia-pacific economic area | T Bonapace, M Mikic | 2005 | PDF | When the drafters of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1947 worked on Article XXIV, they could not have imagined that in 60 years' time more than half the world … | ||
Using Trade Statistics to Gauge Croatian Competitiveness | M Miki_, G Lukini_ | 2004 | PDF | Within the broader theme of building competitiveness, this paper sets out to examine trade indicators in order to estimate Croatian competitiveness in the EU market (relative to the … | ||
Trends in preferential trade liberalization in Asia and the Pacific | M Mikic | 2007 | Chapter PDF | The purpose of this chapter is twofold. First, the aim is to clarify the motivation for, and objective of the ARTNeT regional study on agriculture trade liberalization, and to lay out the … | ||
Dr_avne potpore poduze_ima u Hrvatskoj 2001. godine | M Kesner-_kreb, I Ple_e, M Miki_ | 2003 | chapter | Sa_etak Dr_avne potpore poduze_ima jedan su od oblika provo_enja intervencionisti_ke politike dr_ave. Sporazumom o stabilizaciji i pridru_ivanju s Europskom unijom Hrvatska je … | ||
State aid to enterprises in Croatia in 2001 | M Kesner-_kreb, I Ple_e, M Miki_ | 2003 | chapter | State aid to enterprises is a form of government intervention. Under the Stabilization and Association Agreement with the EU Croatia has accepted certain obligations concerning the … | ||
Preferential trading agreements: Adding spices and noodles to a spaghetti bowl | M Mikic | 2002 | working paperPDF | Economists may agree or disagree on the net effect of the proliferation of the preferential trading agreements in a global economy but none of their analyses will stop the trend of new … | ||
Feminising WTO 2.1 in Revitalising Multilateralism: Pragmatic ideas for the new WTO Director General, edited by Simon J. Evenett and Richard Baldwin, CEPR and Vox.eu | M Mikic, V Sharma | 2020 | chapter | This could have been an essay about 2020 being the right year to select a woman at the helm of the WTO Secretariat. After all, the WTO–one of the youngest international … | ||
ASEAN at 50 and beyond, in Inclusive Trade in Africa, edited by David Luke and Jamie McLeod, Routledge | M Mikic, W Shang | 2019 | chapter | The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2017. Established in 1967 with the signing of the Bangkok Declaration, it was founded by … | ||
Services and global value chains: The Asia-Pacific reality | W Anukoonwattaka, M Mikic, Y Zhang | 2018 | BOOK | The study on 'Services and Global Value Chains: Asia-Pacific reality'reviews the facts and issues related to the roles of services in global value chains. It provides the framework to … | ||
Multilateral rules for regional trade Agreements: past, present and future | M Mikic | 2008 | chapter | This chapter explores how the former (GATT) and current (WTO) multilateral trading system have been handling the rules on RTAs over time and with the change of the multilateral … | ||
Exploring the impacts of trade liberalization in Asia and the Pacific | A Strutt, M Mikic | 2009 | chapter | While it is commonly accepted that multilateral liberalization will bring the greatest global gains from liberalization, regional agreements may be much more feasible in the short term … | ||
Evaluating Croatian Equities | V Cvijanovi_, M Miki_, E Tower | 2003 | articlePDF | In this paper we evaluate all three of the first quotation equities that are available in Croatia. First quotation equities are those that meet the highest accounting and reporting standards … | ||
Preferential trade agreements and agricultural trade liberalization in Asia and the Pacific | M Mikic | 2007 | working paper | The paper addresses preferential trade agreements in Asia and the Pacific with the objective of identifying their characteristics which can be useful in assessing the effects of their … | ||
Agricultural trade liberalization: Time to close windows of exception | M Mikic | 2006 | articlePDF | Agriculture is the economic activity that still provides a livelihood for the majority of people, especially the poor. Every effort thus needs to be made towards making this sector more … | ||
State aid in the European Union and Croatia | M Kesner-_kreb, M Miki_ | 2003 | EU policy on the state aid granted by member countries to their national economies is based on a general presumption that state aid is incompatible with the running of the single market … | |||
Heckscher—Ohlin—Samuelson Model | M Miki_ | 1998 | chapter | Abstract Eli Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin were the first to explore the role of factor endowments as the basis for trade. 1 They laid the groundwork for the developments that … | ||
Achieving the trade targets of Millennium Development Goal 8: Status in the least developed countries of Asia and the Pacific | M Mikic, M Ramjoue | 2009 | working paper | This paper examines the progress made so far in achieving the trade targets of Millennium Development Goal 8 (“Building a Global Partnership for Development”) with respect to the … | ||
The world's wine markets-New Zealand. | M Miki_ | 2004 | chapter | We may also use digital footprint connection information such as your IP address and other technical identifiers, to collect usage data, click stream data, and information about the … | ||
The European Union as determinant of Croatian trade policy | AM Boromisa, M Miki_ | 2003 | chapter | This paper identifies the degree to which the Republic of Croatia is prepared for EU integration in the area of trade and trade policy. According to a comparative analysis of the … | ||
A simple analytical method using trade and tariff data for identifying an offensive list when negotiating a free trade agreement: an example of Sri Lanka-China free … | L Graham, A Kravchenko, RS Ratna, M Mikic | 2018 | working paperPDF | This paper presents a step-by-step discussion on the methodology of developing an “offensive list”–a priority list of products for which to insist on obtaining concessions during … | ||
Dr_avne potpore u Europskoj uniji i Hrvatskoj | M Kesner-_kreb, M Miki_ | 2002 | PDF | Politika EU prema dr_avnim potporama koje odobravaju zemlje _lanice svojim nacionalnim gospodarstvima temelji se na na_elu slobodnog funkcioniranja jedinstvenog tr_i_ta. Dr_avne … | ||
The Effect of the World Financial Crisis on Developing Countries: An Initial Assessment | J Whalley, M Agarwal, M de Paiva Abreu… | 2009 | PDF | The Effect of the World Financial Crisis on Developing Countries: An Initial Assessment Page 1 CIGI Task Force on Developing Countries The Effect of the World Financial Crisis on Developing … | ||
Trade statistics in policymaking: a handbook of commonly used trade indices and indicators-revised edition | J Gilbert, M Mikic | 2009 | PDF | In March 2005, the Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT) held its First Capacity Building Workshop on Trade Research. The main objective of the workshop … | ||