This paper measures the integration of the East Asian and South Asian economies in the global economy and their potential for regional and global economic integration through merchandise trade. East Asian economies are shown to be achieving much more of their potential trade than South Asian...

This paper examines the dynamics of firms’ capital structure in the South and East Asian countries. From an empirical perspective, we used dynamic partial model that enabled us to discriminate between the various factors that impact on target debt ratio and those that impact on the speed of...

ASEAN has been deepening intra-regional integration at the same time that it has been forming various cooperative arrangements with its partners, and its Member Countries have been pursuing individual trade accords. Which would be the optimal configuration for ASEAN? In this paper, we evaluate...

This paper presents a break-down of the export and import performance of selected East Asian countries into changes in price and volume. The results show that in aggregate, the decline in export revenue experienced by these countries in 1998 was largely due to a 9.1 percent fall in prices, and...

The principal aim of the paper is to examine the impact of country-level factors on acquisition activity, and then explore the characteristics as well as the determinants of the takeover choice decision and the gains to target firms in South and East Asian economies. Consistent with the...

The authors attempt to provide a better understanding of the interplay of socio-economic and human development parameters of the 15 developing nations of South, Southeast and East Asia. Their study reveal that the countries which have higher levels of economic growth also have, by and large,...

While mainstream accounts of globalization are telling us that liberalization is essential for engendering the conditions of prosperity across the world, we argue that selective interventions are necessary to ensure that these processes open the path to the high road to industrialization. While...