for Asia's integration process. …

The issue of decoupling is controversial. On the back of Asia's sustained high growth, the hypothesis that the region …'s business cycles would become increasingly independent of the global trend gained considerable attention. Asia was nonetheless … of macroeconomic interdependence between emerging East Asia and Group of 3 economies. First, the progress of regional …

In this paper, we propose a panel approach in the construction of the Asia-Pacific Regional Cooperation and Integration … principal components analysis. Findings suggest the pace of integration in Asia was broadly steady over the 11-year sample …. Based on global normalization, Asia comes second to the European Union (EU) in progress on regional integration, but in …

Europe and Asia followed very different paths to economic integration after 1945. By 2000, an economic union with free … integration agreements were absent from Asia, although countries in East and Southeast Asia were becoming linked in global value …-called WTO+ issues). The outcome will be greater economic integration in Europe and Asia of countries seeking to benefit from …

regionalism in Asia, particularly in the context of United States-China trade relations. It argues that the process of regional … economic integration in Asia has been slow-moving because of the politicization of regionalism by power rivalries. China … player in Asia and an indispensable part of the region's economic process. The United States-led Trans-Pacific Partnership …

Although a latecomer, economically important Asia has emerged at the forefront of global free trade agreement (FTA …. Political economy considerations suggest that a likely scenario is for FTA consolidation in Asia to be followed by connections …