Brooks, Douglas Howard; Hua, Changchun - 2008
In the run-up to the 2008 global financial crisis, there was frequent discussion of Asia having decoupled from economic … expansion of intraregional trade in Asia. This paper examines the trade linkages among Asian countries and between Asia and … diffuse networks. While Asia's intraregional trade is high, most of it consists of parts and components; however, a large …