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Toward win-win regionalism in Asia : issues and challenges in forming efficient trade agreements

Plummer, Michael G. - 2006

of rules to existing FTAs in Asia (both intra- and extra-regional) to guage the degree to which they approach best …

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Managing the noodle bowl : the fragility of East Asian regionalism

Baldwin, Richard E. - 2007

the smooth functioning of "Factory Asia" - in particular for intraregional trade; (ii) the unilateral tariff-cutting that … created Factory Asia is not subject to WTO discipline (bindings); (iii) there is no "top-level management"; to substitute for … WTO discipline, to ensure that bilateral trade tensions - tensions that are inevitable in East Asia - do not spill over …

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The post-crisis sequencing of economic integration in Asia : trade as a complement to a monetary future

Plummer, Michael G. - 2007

Bilateral and regional cooperation initiatives in Asia have been growing in importance over the last five years … sequence, is there a case for monetary union in East Asia? Is there a case for expanded free-trade areas (FTAs) in the region … Equilibrium (CGE) model, to evaluate the economics of monetary/financial integration and various configurations of FTAs in Asia …

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Economic integration in East Asia : trends, prospects, and a possible roadmap

Rana, Pradumna Bickram - 2006

This paper reviews trends in East Asian regionalism in the areas of trade and investment, money and finance, and infrastructure. It presents various measures of trade and financial integration. An important finding of the paper is that increasing trade and financial integration in the region is...

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Does trade integration contribute to peace?

Lee, Jong-Wha - 2009

This paper investigates the effect of trade integration on military conflict. Our empirical analysis,based on a large panel data set of 290,040 country-pair observations from 1950 to 2000, confirms that an increase in bilateral trade interdependence and global trade openness significantly...

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