Trade and Investment Policies and Regional Economic Integration in East Asia

R&D Spillovers, Trade Integration And Expansion Of Trade Flows In East- West Asia And Pacific

Regional Economic Integration and Cooperation in East Asia

author is thankful to Ken Heydon and other participants in the workshop for comments and suggestions.

Regional and Outward Economic Integration in South-East Asia

The subject of this paper tackles macroeconomic integration of the South-East Asian countries South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. Economically, the analysis is based on notions of stochastic long-run convergence and business cycle synchrony in the GDPs. According tests for cointegration and common serial correlation features reveal a high degree of coherence in long-run growth and medium-run flu...

The Interactive Relationship between Regional Trade Integration and Foreign Direct Investment

E conomic integration among countries has continued to deepen over the past decade. This is especially visible at the regional level, with the escalation of Regional Integration Agreements (RIAs) ranging from Free Trade Areas (FTAs) to Customs Unions (CUs). Nowadays, many developing countries have entered a new regional integration agreement with developed and developing countries. S...

Impact of Economic Policy Reforms, Regional and Global Shocks on Trade and Growth in East Asia:

In pursuing policies of trade liberalisation and growth promotion within the framework of regional economic integration, WTO membership and globalisation, major Asian economies had achieved economic ‘miracles’ in the past decades. Recently however, they face many challenges, economically and politically (Tran Van Hoa, 2002), compounded by a global (especially the US) economic slowdown (IMF, 200...