This paper examines development of inter/intra-industry trade in Europe and East Asia. In order to quantify the level of intra-industry trade (IIT), a bias-corrected Grubel and Lloyd index is used. The finding is that IIT is more evident in intra-European trade than in intra-East Asian trade,...

This study analyzes the causes of the European debt crisis and reviews reforms the eurozone has pushed for in order to solve the crisis. It also focuses on the future prospect of economic governance of the eurozone. European debt crisis has spread over the entire eurozone despite the bail out of...

The others argue that the debt crisis of the Southern European countries did not result from excessive social spending, but from failure in creating a positive relationship between the welfare system and economic growth. At this point, we can elicit some policy lessons as follows. First, it is...