This paper examines the unfolding of the US subprime-generated turmoil and its potential spillover on emerging Asia …

regionalist projects in Asia throughout the 1990s. As they demonstrate, Asian countries, especially Japan, have held a strong … desire to establish an Asia-only regional cooperation framework at least since the early 1990s. The basic policy stance of …

sovereignty, which is clearly a fear in East Asia. A supranational executive can be tightly controlled by the governments if (i …. Preferences may not yet have converged sufficiently in East Asia, but a system of representation can be designed which would allow …

Regionalism and regional integration in East Asia has developed dynamically at various levels over the past two decades …. In the world system, East Asia‘s degree of regional economic coherence is second only to the European Union‘s. In … whole East Asia region, focusing on four ‗supra-structure institutions‘: ASEAN Plus Three, East Asia Summit, Asia …

EU side, institutions, structural policies, and the monetary union are most relevant, and in East Asia, production …

Despite a commonplace view that Asian regionalism lacks institutions, Asia, in fact, is full of regional institutions … and frameworks in various forms. The rise and fall of regional institutions in Asia is an extremely dynamic process. Using … "regionalism cycle." The institutional outcome of regionalism in Asia has been cyclical because the game played by Japan and the …

the smooth functioning of "Factory Asia" - in particular for intraregional trade; (ii) the unilateral tariff-cutting that … created Factory Asia is not subject to WTO discipline (bindings); (iii) there is no "top-level management"; to substitute for … WTO discipline, to ensure that bilateral trade tensions - tensions that are inevitable in East Asia - do not spill over …

This paper analyzes the patterns and determinants of financial integration in East Asia by using the data set of cross … integration in East Asia is due to heavy intra-regional trade in goods-after controlling for bilateral trade volume, East Asia …