... increased economic integration has impacted the inter-country income levels among the five founding members of ASEAN. Design/methodology/approach A new Machine Learning (ML) approach is applied along with a panel data analysis (GMM), and the application of KOF Globalization Index. Findings...

...Nguyen Khanh Doanh; Linh Tuan Truong; Yoon Heo Purpose This paper aims at assessing the impact of institutional and cultural distances and trade barriers on ASEAN's trade efficiency using a panel data set of 65 countries for the period 2006–2017. Design/methodology/approach First, the authors...

...Viet Van Hoang Purpose This study aims to (1) identify the agricultural competitiveness of ASEAN countries in the global markets; (2) analyze the dynamics of these indicators for the period 1997–2015; and (3) test the consistency between trade indices. Design/methodology/approach The study...

...Hoan Thanh Phan; Young Ji Jeong Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the patterns and determinants of intra-industry trade (IIT) in manufactures between Korea and selected ASEAN countries in the period of 1997-2011. Design/methodology/approach – The effects...

...Shuquan He Purpose The purpose of this paper is to calculate the net gains or losses for the ASEAN Members 1998‐2007 in the East Asian market. Design/methodology/approach This paper provides a new extension to the shift‐share analysis to attribute the net shift to competing economies...

...Hway‐Boon Ong; Muzafar Shah Habibullah Purpose The purpose of this paper to examine if there is continuous macroeconomic compatibility between ASEAN‐5 and China. Thus, in addition to the typical VECM test of the long run macroeconomic cointegration test, this paper examines the existence...

...A. Chowdhury; C.H. Kirkpatrick The article examines the impact of changing human resource endowments on the factor intensity and commodity composition of manufacturing exports in the ASEAN economies. There is evidence that skill and human capital endowments over the period 1970‐83 have increased...