Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/77421 
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Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
HEID Working Paper No. 12/2008
Publisher: 
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Abstract: 
This paper creates a new index (index of bilateral trade relation) to quantitatively evaluate the degree of regional economic integration based on countries' de facto bilateral trade relations. It concludes that a fundamental arrangement of East Asian regionalism should involve at least one of the two hub candidates - Japan and China. It also suggests that the China-ASEAN FTA (CAFTA) may trigger domino effects of regionalism in East Asia.
Subjects: 
trade liberalization
regional integration
East Asian regionalism
JEL: 
F15
R11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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