This paper reviews trends in East Asian regionalism in the areas of trade and investment, money and finance, and … infrastructure. It presents various measures of trade and financial integration. An important finding of the paper is that increasing … trade and financial integration in the region is now starting to lead to a synchronization of business cycles in a selected …

inter-regional trade, cross-border financial assets, correlation of stock returns, and interest rate differentials. In …

macroeconomic interdependence for emerging Asian economies through changing trade and financial linkages at both the regional and …, the reverse is also true. Output shocks from emerging Asia (and the People's Republic of China [PRC]) have a significant …

compare these with similar measures for other regions. Our indicators cover regional integration in trade, investment … trade agreements and official policy dialogues. We find that in various Asian groupings, and especially in a group of 16 … integrating Asian economies, interdependence in trade, direct investment, financial flows, and other forms of economic and social …

both intraregionally and interregionally. Second, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) playing a central role in the … regional production and trade network, its ongoing structural changes will likely influence Asia's economic integration both … within and beyond the region through evolving trade and investment links. Finally, the paper employs a vector autoregression …

measures, e.g. production, trade, investment and finance. It has also become increasingly integrated in various ways …. Integration at the micro-level has steadily progressed since the 1960s, as indicated by rising intraregional trade. Moreover, East … transnational business and other technical systems where production, trade, and investment have become a function of each other …

The Eastern enlargement of the European Union (EU) is likely to give a further boost to trade and capital flows, yet … determinants of international asset holdings and trade flows. We find in most regressions that EU membership has a significant … candidates actual values are still far below expected ones in most cases. Consequently, we anticipate rising capital and trade …

if EU enlargement has had any diversion effects on trade between the EU and Russia at all, they have been minimal, while … robust growth in both the EU and Russia, as well as high oil and gas prices, has boosted trade. Likewise, FDI to and from …