Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/3770 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1264
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
In this paper, we analyse effects of EU integration on Asian countries. Since the early 1990s, it is especially the trade creation effect of monetary integration (so-called Rose effect) which is heavily debated in the literature. Recent papers seem to indicate that the Rose effect seems to be significant especially for countries like the old EU members which are already highly integrated in terms of trade and factor mobility. The potential discrimination effect against trade with third countries tends to increase with new member states entering EMU and could also affect Asian economies' exports to Europe. At the same time, so-called overlap or similarity indices for trade patterns show an increasing similarity between EU, US, and Japanese exports to Asia on the one hand and Asian and European exports to industrialized countries on the other hand. These observations are consistent with recent policy responses, i.e., the focus of European contingent protection on Asian competitors, the desire of Asian countries to negotiate free trade agreements (FTA) with the US and Japan, and the EU's response by probably entering into FTA negotiations with Asian countries, including ASEAN.
Subjects: 
Monetary Integration
Protection
FTA
Overlap Index
Europe
Asia
Trade
JEL: 
F13
F31
F15
O52
O53
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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