To explore the concept of connectivity and trade relativity (CTR), this paper presents a research model to illustrate: (1) the impact of shipping connectivity on two types of trade flows, and (2) the mediating effect of intra-regional trade ("intra-trade") on the relationship between shipping...

Chapter 1: General Introduction -- Chapter 2: Global pandemic’s scarring effects and Indonesia’s economy -- Chapter 3: Economic Openness for Economic Transformation -- Chapter 4: Analysing Indonesia’s bilateral trade and investment network -- Chapter 5: Analysing bilateral Comprehensive...

The present article illustrates the use of integrated indices to evaluate the potential for the development of regional integration processes. The study examines a new research and methodological approach, which involves the use of an integral index of the potential for the development of...

Galvanized by the devastation of the Second World War, European countries achieved a historically unprecedented and unparalleled level of regional economic integration in the postwar period. Intensive cooperation between the two biggest powers of continental Western Europe, France, and Germany,...