Despite their controversial political relationship, Taiwan and China remain very much entwined economically. This timely volume explores the complicated state of economic and trade relations between the two countries, meticulously unravelling the issue's various threads and presenting an...

Cross-Strait linkages : historical perspective and empirical evidence / Richard C.K. Burdekin, Yijing Shen and Hsin-hui I.H. Whited -- A comparison between the CEPA and the ECFA / Yun-Wing Sung -- Assessing the impacts of the integration of the ICT investments of Taiwan and China upon economic...

The global welfare implications of home market effects in trade models with imperfect competition are little understood. This paper proposes a simple model in which such implications can be easily analyzed. It shows an overall tendency of imperfectly competitive sectors to inefficiently cluster...

Chapter 1 A Summary of Theoretical Studies on International Regional Economic Integration and China's Borderland Economic Development -- Chapter 2 The Process and Attributes of Regional Economic Integration between China and Neighboring Countries -- Chapter 3 The boundary effect in the process...

This paper focuses on two aspects being neglected in the analysis of agglomeration tendencies so far. First, it regards regional agglomeration patterns and secondly, the allocation of capital across industrial sectors. Indeed, the average relative concentration of capital turns out to be of a...