There is a strong relationship between regional integration and economic performance. This paper investigates the impact of on macroeconomic indicators in Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) – trade block created by former Soviet republics 2014. study compares two types collaboration strategies: first, unilateral liberalization with one-sided opening market access that does not imply any mutual conc...

Over the past decade the economies of East Asia and APEC more generally have been increasinglyopening up their markets, and in the process have achieved significant gains in exports and economicgrowth. In conjunction with this increased economic integration, there has been increased recognitionby regional governments of the potential for a substantial increase in the participation by smallbusin...

This paper presents new evidence on international financial market integration using stock analyst earnings forecasts from 37 countries around the world. By examining cash flow and discount rate news co-movements, we find that the financial and economic aspects of global market integration have diverged over time as financial integration has developed particularly more rapidly than economic int...

This article pursues two tasks. The first is to clarify the value and productivity of Williams’s Keywords: a vocabulary culture society (first edition 1976, second expanded 1983a) for project Cultural Studies. clarification helped, I argue, by reading it alongside Vološinov’s Marxism philosophy language (published in Russian 1929, translated into English 1973). related task speculative developm...

In the last decade the emergence of new social needs as an effect of the economic crisis has stimulated the flourishing of business endeavours characterised by explicit social goals. Social start-ups, social enterprises or Corporate Social Responsibility operations carried out by traditional companies are quintessential examples in this regard. This paper analyses these kinds of initiatives in ...

Typhoon Morakot hit Taiwan in 2009 and caused severe damages. The government employs a compulsory relocation strategy for post-disaster reconstruction. This study analyzes the impact of this strategy on community solidarity. It employs a multiple approach for data collection, including semi-structural interview, secondary data, and documentation. The results indicate that the government’s strat...