Stock markets play a key role in corporate financing in Asia. However, despite their increasing importance in terms of …€œnoise†in stock pricing, which suggests that improvements in the regulation of securities markets in Asia could enhance the role …

? Data from South Asia suggest that member states have minor trade linkages and face asymmetrical patterns of shocks. This … harmonized with the level of regional economic integration. …

-of financial integration in Asia. The third considers the implications of economic integration for the choice of the exchange rate …-Level Conference on Asian Integration cohosted by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the IMF on May 25, 2006. The first documents … recent trends in the intraregional flow of goods and capital and explores linkages between real and financial integration …

vector autoregression (VAR) approach. It finds that during the last decade shocks from emerging Asia have become more … dominate the transmission of shocks from emerging Asia to Australia. The influence of emerging Asia on New Zealand is found to …

The paper shows that Asia's degree of financial integration, both with the world and within the region remains low by … various measures. The paper also provides empirical evidence that greater financial integration can support economic …

The small states of the Asia and Pacific region face unique challenges in raising their growth potential and living …, as evidenced in the recent business cycle. The Asia and Pacific small states should continue rebuilding buffers and …

demographics and infrastructure investment needs. Enhancing financial innovation and integration in the region could facilitate … intra-regional financial flows and mobilize resources from the aging savers in industrialized Asia to finance infrastructure … investment in emerging Asia. Strengthening the financial ties within the region as well as with the global financial markets …

The paper characterizes trade exposure and regional integration in six ASEAN economies during 1997-2008. For this, the …€œglobal factory†and the steady shift in regional production and integration from Japan and the United States to China. …

The paper evaluates the South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) within the global structure of overlapping regional …