1.Introduction to Services and GVC Activities ASEAN and East Asia -- 2.Changes in the Business Conditions of small and medium sizes enterprises during COVID-19: industry and regional analysis in Japan -- 3.Establishment Dynamics and Employment Growth of FDI Service Firms Evidence from Korea --...

This paper creates a new index ("index of bilateral trade relation") to quantitatively evaluate the degree of regional economic integration based on countries' de facto bilateral trade relations. It concludes that a fundamental arrangement of East Asian regionalism should involve at least one of...

"Mega free trade agreements (FTAs) are being formed to fill the gap created by new developments in global governance and are reshaping the world economic order. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement is one of such 21st century FTAs. This book highlights three trade-related issues covered...