The traditional walls between banking, insurance and securities markets are breaking down as a result of deregulation and liberalization of financial services. The cross-buying of financial services has become a global trend as a part of the convergence of financial services. This trend has recently commenced in East Asian countries, such as Taiwan and Korea, where the tremendous growth of these activities has been noticed. The book explores what the determinants of this growth in East Asia, particularly in Korea and Taiwan are, and how these determinants influence differently to the...

The emergence of a new regional economic architecture in Northeast Asia raises a number of important political economic implications. This book investigates the rationale, structure and form of this development. It critically examines the evolution of the political economy of Northeast Asian regionalism.

This book is a combination of strong pre-existing and working knowledge of the political economies of three countries: China, Japan and Korea. Due to the exploratory, theory-building nature of the research, and interviews with key informants combined with critical published...