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Introduction / Michael G. Plummer and Erik Jones -- 1. East Asian economic regionalism: progress and challenges / Masahiro Kawai -- 2. Sequencing regional integration in Asia / Richard Pomfret -- 3. ASEAN+3: is an economic community in their future? / James Angresano -- 4. Stock market performance in ASEAN: is institutional integration warranted? / Reid W. Click and Michael G. Plummer -- 5. The institution of a single currency area: lessons for Asia from the European Monetary Union / Sergio Rossi -- 6. Deep integration and its impacts on non-members: EU enlargement and East Asia / Hiro Lee and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe -- 7. Small change: a critical examination of the economic relationship between South Asia and the European Union / Jonathan W. Moses and Maggi Brigham -- 8. The effects of North-South regional trade policies: a comparison of Mediterranean countries with ASEAN / Nicolas Péridy -- 9. Reconciling the tensions between regional integration and cohesion / Mary Farrell -- 10. Lessons for Asia? Legitimacy and quasi-democratic mechanisms in European and American market integration / Craig Parsons and J. David Richardson.

"International Economic Integration and Domestic Performance brings together the essays of Mary E Lovely focused on the relationship between international economic integration and domestic performance. It is a collection of sole-authored and co-authored papers that have been published in various scholarly journals over the last two decades. The first section considers the welfare effects and optimal design of retail sales taxes when consumers can avoid taxation by crossing jurisdictional boundaries. The second section highlights the role of scale economies in the design of industrial policies and as a determinant of firm location. The third section explores the influence of environmental policy on foreign investor's location decisions and the role of trade and technology on country's environmental regulation. The final section considers the determinants of wage differences, the attraction of low wages for foreign investors, and misallocations of labor in an emerging economy — China. The collection, taken as a whole, highlights the power of international factor mobility to determine domestic tax burdens, to influence welfare implications of domestic policy alternatives, and to influence the location of productive factors and their rewards."--Publisher's website

This new edition of International Economic Integration, has been fully revised and updated to reflect current developments in this increasingly important area. New features include: * Completely new introduction and conclusion * Chapter added on integration schemes which includes discussion of the East and the enlargement of the European Union * Chapter on the Common Market expanded to include new developments in capital mobility and industrial policy * new real life examples, quanitative studies and statistical material * Treatment of issues even more accessible following feedback from firs