Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/92810 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Discussion Paper No. 574
Publisher: 
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka
Abstract: 
As trade integration deepens in East Asia, it is expected that there will be closer links in business cycles among East Asian countries. Theoretically, however, increased trade can lead business cycles across trading partners to shift in either direction: while inter-industry trade resulting in higher specialization would induce less synchronization, intra-industry trade could overturn this tendency. By using the data for twelve Asian economies, this paper finds that intra-industry trade is the major channel through which business cycles become synchronized among Asian economies, although increased trade itself does not necessarily lead to close business cycle coherence. This result has important implications for the prospects of a currency union in the region.
JEL: 
E32
F36
F41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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