Whether international economic integration arrangements result in a more liberal trade at the multilateral level cannot … be proven with ease. Integration may start this process, but it may also reverse it. New mega-integration deals such as …

markets, we investigate whether capital market integration varies across industries and by geographical proximity. The tests …

- led Asian growth has revealed the role of FDI as a financial gravity for trade integration in the APEC region. Analyses of … forces underlying trade integration using trade gravity models with dummies for regional trading arrangements, augmented by …

the framework of the country’s increasing international economic integration. Among the various services sectors, the …

This paper investigates the linkages between economic integration and horizontal Foreign Direct Investment (FDI …-based firms to invest outside the regional area. Economic integration characterized by internal and external transaction costs may … complex linkages between economic integration and FDI location pattern depending simultaneously on set-up fixed costs, the …

as a result of larger integration renders interesting analyzing the evolution of income disparities in Mercosur after … more than a decade of economic integration. This is the main purpose of this paper. The study indicates that income … impact of the creation of Mercosur, however, shows that the integration process might not be at the origin of this trend. …

The paper aims to show the uneven process of integration of Polish manufacturing into the Single Market due to … uneven process of integration of industries into the Single Market. In the last section the winners and losers in the process … of integration of Polish manufacturing into the Single Market and the factors determining uneven integration are analysed. …

Regional integration initiatives have surged in Latin America while many countries have undertaken unilateral trade … examines and ranks the integration choices faced by one such country: Bolivia. To the extent that different regional trade … Bolivia, regional integration is not merely a matter of economics but relates to domestic and regional politics. To this end …