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Economic Integration in East Asia: Trends, Prospects, and a Possible Roadmap

Year: 2006

Type: preprint

Abstract: 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 group of countries, further enhancing the case for monetary integration among these countries. The paper also outlines a roadmap for East Asian integration.

Source: RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

Author: Pradumna B. Rana

Institution: Asian Development Bank

Language: English

Topic: Global Financial Crisis and Policies

Subfield: Finance

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2116832816

Cites: 12

Cited by: 79

Related to: 10