caa a22 4500 397572670 CHVBK 20180308164846.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199607 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/oxfordjournals.cje.a013623 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/oxfordjournals.cje.a013623 Regional trading blocs: will East Asia be next? [Elektronische Daten] [Paul Bowles, Brian MacLean] Interest in the possible emergence of an East Asian trading bloc is certainly warranted. However, in the absence of any well-developed theory of regional bloc formation, most economists have studied the question by examining aggregate trade statistics. We argue that these studies provide only a partial picture of the degree to which economic integration is taking place in East Asia. An analysis of capital flows (especially Foreign Direct Investment flows) is also required and the political economy of state action must be explicitly considered. We conclude that an East Asian trading bloc may be an attractive proposition to many countries in the region. We also point to potential obstacles in this process. © 1996 Academic Press Limited Articles nationallicence Bowles Paul University of Northern British Columbia and Laurentian University, Canada aut MacLean Brian University of Northern British Columbia and Laurentian University Canada aut Cambridge Journal of Economics Oxford University Press 20/4(1996-07), 393-412 0309-166X 20:4<393 1996 20 cameco https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.cje.a013623 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.cje.a013623 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bowles Paul University of Northern British Columbia and Laurentian University, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- MacLean Brian University of Northern British Columbia and Laurentian University Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cambridge Journal of Economics Oxford University Press 20/4(1996-07), 393-412 0309-166X 20:4<393 1996 20 cameco Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford