the degree of risk-sharing in East Asia has improved along with the observed rise in integration in the region. Higher … how virulent these risks can be when roused from dormancy. Given the inevitability of integration, the challenge is how to … maximize its benefits while minimizing its costs. One benefit of greater integration, particularly financial integration, is …

Why is Asia lagging behind other regions in creating regional judicial institutions? What lessons from the operation of … such institutions elsewhere could be valuable to Asian regional economic integration? I show that Asian states are not … judicial institutions elsewhere have also rarely been used to resolve inter-state disputes. The most valuable lesson for Asia …

Regional economic integration is back in vogue following the "stumble" in the Doha Round in July 2008. Preferential … trade agreements (PTAs) are driving this trend in Asia and the Pacific as well as in Central and South America, and the … under negotiation or in force. In this regard, Asia and the Pacific has developed a rapidly evolving regional economic …

Trade policy in Asia has switched from non-discriminatory unilateral liberalisation, reinforced by GATT/ WTO … will not drive regional economic integration or further integration with the global economy. Rather it could be a force of …

Equilibrium (CGE) model, to evaluate the economics of monetary/financial integration and various configurations of FTAs in Asia …. We conclude that, at present, the postsequencing of economic integration in Asia is developing such that trade agreements …Bilateral and regional cooperation initiatives in Asia have been growing in importance over the last five years …

This paper asks how Asia should prepare for the disorderly correction of global imbalances. It recommends tightening … easily if they are coordinated within Asia. …

results show that comprehensive continent-wide economic integration in Asia is unlikely to happen soon, since the integration …" economic integration in comparison with the European Union (EU) and examines the factors contributing to the integration. The … is confined mainly to East and Southeast Asia, while other regions are much less integrated and globalized. The …

Europe and Asia followed very different paths to economic integration after 1945. By 2000, an economic union with free … integration agreements were absent from Asia, although countries in East and Southeast Asia were becoming linked in global value …-called WTO+ issues). The outcome will be greater economic integration in Europe and Asia of countries seeking to benefit from …