researchers understand and monitor the regional integration process in Latin America. …

- 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 …

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 …

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 …

We construct the Korean Integration Model (KIM), a two-country com - putable general equilibrium (CGE) model linking …. If factor mar - kets do not integrate, the macroeconomic impact on South Korea of economic integration with the North is … relatively small, while the effects on North Korea are large. With a monetary union and factor market integration, there is a sig …

versus policies for regional integration. Hierarchical cluster analysis based on bilateral trade intensity reveals the … distortions. Hence integration policies follow the facts created by the market. …