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Does trade integration contribute to peace?

Lee, Jong-Wha - 2009

interdependence and global trade openness significantly promotes peace. It also suggests that the effect of trade openness varies … depending on the geographical proximity of countries. The peace-promotion effect of bilateral trade integration is significantly … only bilateral trade interdependence but also multilateral trade integration. The main finding of the peace …

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ASEAN's free trade agreements with the People's Republic of China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea : a qualitative and quantitative analysis

Park, Donghyun (contributor); Park, Soonchan (contributor); … - 2011

Expanding trade with East Asia’s "Big Three" economic giants - the People's Republic of China (PRC), Japan, and the Republic of Korea - offers a new potential source of growth for ASEAN in the post-global-crisis period. In fact, ASEAN has been actively pursuing trade liberalization with the...

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Regionalism as an engine of multilateralism : a case for a single East Asian FTA

Kawai, Masahiro - 2008

As East Asia becomes increasingly integrated through market-driven trade and FDI activities, free trade agreements (FTAs) are proliferating. Consolidation of multiple and overlapping FTAs into a single East Asian FTA can help mitigate the harmful noodle bowl effects of different or competing...

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Managing the noodle bowl : the fragility of East Asian regionalism

Baldwin, Richard E. - 2007

The paper argues that East Asian regionalism is fragile because (i) each nation's industrial competitiveness depends on 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...

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Toward win-win regionalism in Asia : issues and challenges in forming efficient trade agreements

Plummer, Michael G. - 2006

Many economists tend to be skeptical of the merits of Free-Trade Areas (FTAs) due to their second-best nature, while others support them under certain conditions, particularly as they allow for a more comprehensive treatment of trade- and investment-related issues than is currently possible...

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Shaping the future of the Asia and the Pacific-Latin America and the Caribbean relationship

2012

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The organizational architecture of the Asia-Pacific : insights from the new institutionalism

Haggard, Stephan - 2011

This paper surveys recent literature on the design of international institutions and applies the insights from it to the prospects for regional economic cooperation in the Asia-Pacific. The political and economic heterogeneity of the region has served the process of regional economic...

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The building block versus stumbling block debate of regionalism : from the perspective of service trade liberalization in Asia

Hamanaka, Shintaro - 2009

When debating the pros and cons of economic regionalism, haven't we focused enough on trade in goods at the expense of services? This article argues that regionalism is certainly a building block, not a stumbling block to a multilateral trading system, using the services liberalization scheme of...

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The post-crisis sequencing of economic integration in Asia : trade as a complement to a monetary future

Plummer, Michael G. - 2007

Bilateral and regional cooperation initiatives in Asia have been growing in importance over the last five years.These accords span the real and financial sectors; rather than following the more typical pattern of "trade first,money later", recent policy initiatives involve the simultaneous...

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Economic integration in East Asia : trends, prospects, and a possible roadmap

Rana, Pradumna Bickram - 2006

This paper reviews trends in East Asian regionalism in the areas of trade and investment, money and finance, and infrastructure. It presents various measures of trade and financial integration. An important finding of the paper is that increasing trade and financial integration in the region is...

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