Conclusion
In this note we considered the relationship between trade integration and the cross-country correlation of business cycle activity in southeast Asia. We found a positive and significant relationship between the degree of bilateral trade intensity and the cross-country bilateral correlation of business activity over the period 1986–1996, a period when trade integration was proceeding rapidly. Thus, the Frankel and Rose (1997) finding that more trade integration between industrialized countries tends to result in more highly synchronized business cycles, appears to be robust to a sample of countries which have diverse income levels and economic structures and are likely to have less bilateral intraindustry trade.
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Thornton, J., Goglio, A. Intra-regional trade and business cycles in Southeast Asia. Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 135, 166–170 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02708164
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