economic integration is being created within a few specific regions of the world: Europe, North America and East Asia. … integration of trade, finance, investments, labor markets and ideas in one globalmarketplace. The most important elements of this … academic discourse, many economists focused, from the 1980s and 1990s, in addition to globalization, on regionalization - the …

We investigate the effect of trade integration on interstate military conflict. Our empirical analysis, based on a … interdependence significantly promotes peace. It also suggests that the peace-promotion effect of bilateral trade integration is … sharing borders. The main finding of the peace-promotion effect of bilateral and global trade integration holds robust when …

findings suggest that Asia-Latin American FTAs have laid the foundations for inter-regional integration by liberalizing the … enhance Asia-Latin American integration in the future …

Regional integration is the strategy adopted at the continental level to strengthen Africa’s development. However, the … different regional blocs already established on the continent face many challenges. Based on the economic integration of the … increase in backward integration to GVC raises trade openness. The results also indicate how the competitiveness of trade …

clear economic implication. Economic integration definitely worsens outsider s welfare even if the external tariffs of the … bloc are unraised. Bloc member s welfare first increases with the expansion of the bloc, but when about half of the world … is united into the bloc, welfare begins to decrease. Simulation results shed some light on the incentive structure of …

are much stronger than the general case covering all RTAs in the world. In addition, as we control the trade effect of a … country's trade facilitation, which is ranked by the World Bank's logistic performance index, RTAs consisting of trade …