Aim/purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze regional trade integration 10 Central and Eastern Europe countries (CEE-10) during the 2004-2018 period, identify regional- country-level patterns attribute them potential causes indicated by literature. Design/methodology/approach employed literature-based indicators data on CEE-10 in goods conducted a review empirical studies investigating...

The Center of training for regional integration (CEFIR, in Spanish) was founded more than 20 years with the firm intention to dedicate efforts on issues of regional integration in the four countries of MERCOSUR. Since 2008 has promoted the creation of a platform for elearning and delivered some courses in blended learning and e-learning mode, for training in regional integration issues. E-learn...

The Building Blocks of Successful Regional Integration: Lessons for the CSME from other regional integration schemes. By Rachel Simms, LL.M, 2006 University of Toronto And Errol Simms, Senior Lecturer, Department of Management Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, U.W.I., St. Augustine. Regional Trading Blocs (RTBs) have become quite ubiquitous, with approximately 200 of them presently operating...

the objective of this paper is to explore the effect of financial crisis on trade flows of steel industries in the major asian-pacific steel producing countries. using a static and dynamic panel data analysis, we test the hypothesis that the global financial crisis has a negative effect on asia-pacific bilateral steel trade flows. we also examine the role of regional trade integration in bilate...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: G12 F31 C32 Keywords: Time-varying integration Asian markets Risk premium ICAPM GDC-GARCH This article investigates the dynamics of regional financial integration and its determinants in an international setting. We test a conditional version of the International Capital Asset Pricing Model (ICAPM) accounting for the deviations from Purchasing Power Par...

This paper demonstrates the utility of a sociology of regional integration by addressing two central questions that have sparked much debate over the welfare state. Is there evidence of long-anticipated retrenchment? Does globalization cause that retrenchment? I redirect these debates by showing that there is evidence of retrenchment in Europe, and that regional integration – not globalization ...

It is well known that some XML elements correspond to objects (in the sense of object-orientation) and others do not. The question we consider in this paper is what benefits we can derive from paying attention to such object semantics, particularly for the problem of keyword queries. Keyword queries against XML data have been studied extensively in recent years, with several lowest-common-ances...

There is little disagreement among most economists that countries benefit from trade liberalization. Yet, whether unilateral, multilateral (through the World Trade Organization) or through regional integration agreements (RIAs), trade liberalization has been one of the most controversial economic issues of our time. It is the focus of everyone from politicians to union leaders and anti-globaliz...

" International integration is a process by which countries remove the barriers to free trade and the free movement of people across national borders, with the goal of reducing the tensions that can lead to international conflict " .