Economic Integration and its Impacts on Trade Flows

"Economic Integration and its Impacts on Trade Flows" is a reference book for those who are working with globalization and trade liberalization. Doan provides intensive analysis about the status of Vietnamese economic integration and their commitments with international regimes. Doan also discusses the positive and negative impact of economic integration on Vietnam's economy based on benefits and costs, which might be useful for under- and developing countries. Further, for the understanding whole picture of economic integration, Doan evaluates aggregate impacts of regional and global integration (WTO, APEC, ASEAN+3, BTAs) on Vietnam's trade flows by using advanced econometric instruments following the Gravity Model and suggests meaningful recommendations. The book develops the necessary analytical results needed to understand using both quality and quantitative approaches. Readers need no prior experience with globalization. The book should be particularly useful for those who does researches on Vietnam's issues or who is interested in applying econometric for social science.

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Huy Quang Doan is an economist at Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, where he does Ph.D. project in institutional economics and trade liberalization. He is also the lecturer in International Economics at Thai Nguyen University. Doan earned his Master at Sogang University and was also an exchange scholar at the University of Queensland.

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"Economic Integration and its Impacts on Trade Flows" is a reference book for those who are working with globalization and trade liberalization. Doan provides intensive analysis about the status of Vietnamese economic integration and their commitments with international regimes. Doan also discusses the positive and negative impact of economic integration on Vietnam s economy based on benefits and costs, which might be useful for under- and developing countries. Further, for the understanding whole picture of economic integration, Doan evaluates aggregate impacts of regional and global integration (WTO, APEC, ASEAN+3, BTAs) on Vietnam's trade flows by using advanced econometric instruments following the Gravity Model and suggests meaningful recommendations. The book develops the necessary analytical results needed to understand using both quality and quantitative approaches. Readers need no prior experience with globalization. The book should be particularly useful for those who does researches on Vietnam's issues or who is interested in applying econometric for social science.