This article presents a survey of the monetary integration debate in East Asia with a special emphasis on the arguments developed by Asian economists themselves. It focuses mainly on the existence of an optimal monetary zone between various sets of East Asian countries. In a first part, we...

This article analyses the impact of the international crisis in Asia. We show that the main channel of contagion was trade and not finance. We then question the nature of the recovery which is getting steam since the spring of 2009 thanks to the success of the Chinese stimulus plan. This...

This article takes the case of Thailand to present the distribution of income and the evolution of the profit rate in a low-wage country that belongs to the second generation of newly industrialising countries. It is shown that during the boom years the high rate of profit was not based on a...

[eng] A re-examination, based on the automobile industry, of the relationship between variety and scale . of production by Bruno Jetin and Yannick Lung . Based on specific statistical time-series of product variety and production volume of passenger cars for the main car makers during the period...