International Trade and Economic Integration in the Asia/Pacific Region

Convenors: Arusha Cooray, Charles Harvie and Kankesu Jayanthakumaran
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The International Trade and Economic Integration in the Asia/Pacific Region group will explore the evolution, development and contemporary forms of economic integration within the Asia-Pacific region. We take the Asia-Pacific region to include Asia (both East and South), Australia, North America and the Pacific. Our research focuses upon the factors driving economic integration in the region, the various forms that this integration entails and prospects for its success. The group brings together economists and researchers from other disciplines to consider a range of inter-related themes including:

• the variable geometry of economic integration in the Asia Pacific
• free trade agreements
• optimum currency areas
• China and the region
• India and the region
• macroeconomic policy coordination
• regional capital markets
• regional production networks
• regional growth and development
• labour migration
• environment and climate change