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East Asian Regionalism: An Empirical Analysis

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This chapter is an empirical study of trade regionalism in East Asian. First, it describes selected research studies in this sphere. The further part of the chapter is aimed to identify main determinants of intraregional trade. Therefore, a multidimensional regression model was used. The research period: 1990–2014.

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Klecha-Tylec, K. (2017). East Asian Regionalism: An Empirical Analysis. In: The Theoretical and Practical Dimensions of Regionalism in East Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40262-8_6

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