We develop indicators to measure the degree of economic integration and cooperation among East Asian economies and compare these with similar measures for other regions. Our indicators cover regional integration in trade, investment, financial assets, and people-to-people exchange. We also...

East Asian trade agreements are often described as a complicated "noodle bowl," which shows links in the region as a snarled, overlapping, intertwined mass. But this is a misleading representation-Asia's regional agreements may in fact be creating an order of a different sort, building the...

The vacuum left by stalled global trade negotiations has led to two tracks of negotiations in the Asia Pacific: an Asian track centered on ASEAN and a Trans-Pacific track based on the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, currently in negotiation by 11 economies including the United States. Both...