Does Intra-Regional Trade Matter in Regional Stock Markets?: New Evidence from Asia-Pacific Region

Theory and Evidence..... Regional Integration of Stock Markets in Asia Pacific Countries by

Regional Collaboration for Strengthening Medical Toxicology in the Asia Pacific Region

Medical toxicology is somehow a neglected field of medicine. Support for this discipline is necessary as there are many competing interests within a nation's public health priorities (1). In the previous issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology, the essentials of the empowerment of medical toxicology in the Asia Pacific region have been discussed (2). Perhaps, there is now an urg...

Regional Inter-dependence among National Stock Markets: Evidence from Asia and Europe

In this paper we study the nature of regional inter-dependence among selected Asian stock markets and contrast it with that among selected European markets before and during the Asian crisis. We ask if the Asian crisis marked any fundamental change in the basic nature of these relationships. Using daily dollar-denominated returns data from eight East Asian and eight European stock markets, we s...

Does trade integration matter for reducing intra- regional disparities? ASEAN evidence from a panel co-integration approach

Needless to say, it is necessary to study the relative scales of the trade creation effect and the trade diversion effect to evaluate success of ASEAN trade integration and to determine whether or not the intra-bloc trade share is appropriate as an indicator of the progress of reducing intra-regional disparities in ASEAN. Therefore, this paper first uses descriptive statistics and some key indi...

Relationship between Economic Growth, Urban Concentration and Trade: Evidence from the Asia-Pacific

  There is a significant relationship between economic growth and the degree of urban concentration, as measured by primacy or the share of the largest city in an urban system. In accordance to urban economic theories, there is an inverse-U shape relationship between urban concentration –urban primacy- and economic growth. That is, as economy grows, urban concentration increases, approaches a...