The Analysis of Economic Integration Among Asean-5 With Japan and USA
This study examines the existence of economic integration among the five founding member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) which is Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Singapore. Further, this study also explores the economic integration among ASEAN-5...
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| Format: | Final Year Project Report |
| Language: | English |
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Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS)
2008
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/24676/2/Menaka.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/24676/ |
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| Summary: | This study examines the existence of economic integration among the five founding
member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) which is
Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Singapore. Further, this study
also explores the economic integration among ASEAN-5 with Japan and USA by
using the real GDP data from 1970-2005. Basically there are three types of test
applied consists of Unit Root Test, Johansen and Juselius Cointegration Test And
Granger Causality Test. The unit root test implies that all the data are stationary at
their first differences. This allowed proceeding with cointegrating test. By using lag
2 and 4, there are long-run relationship occurs among ASEAN-5 countries itself and
ASEAN-5 with Japan and USA respectively. Whereas, the granger causality test
shows there is short-run relationship occurs among ASEAN-5 with Japan and USA.
The analysis of this study shows that the ASEAN -5 has economic integration among
the region itself. In addition, the study also found that Japan significantly affects the
changes ofoutput of ASEAN-5 rather than USA. |
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