Oxford scholarship online Economics and Finance

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The benefits and costs of an East Asian currency union -- Which currency union for East Asia? -- Welfare effects of East Asian currency unions -- Convergence in interest rates and equity premia -- Risk-sharing and financial stability -- Motivation and introduction -- The effect of trade on business cycle synchronization -- Inflation targeting and business cycle synchronization: theory and literature -- Trading silver for gold : nineteenth-century Asian exports and the political economy of currency unions -- The ASEAN free trade agreement : impact on trade flows and external trade barriers -- Economic integration in remote resource-rich regions -- Regional trade integration and multinational firm strategies -- A world factory in global production chains : estimating imported value-added in exports by the People's Republic of China.

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