Energy Market Integration in East Asia

Yanrui Wu is an economist specializing in development economics, international trade and applied econometrics. His research interests include the Asian economies (particularly, China and India), productivity analysis, economic growth, resource and environmental economics. He has published extensively in these fields including several authored books.Fukunari Kimura is Chief Economist of Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) and a full professor at Faculty of Economics, Keio University. He specializes in international trade and development economics, particularly working on various topics related to production networks and economic integration. He obtained PhD (economics) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1991.Xunpeng Shi is an energy economist at Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). He specializes in environmental and resource economics, development economics, and the Chinese economy. He obtained his PhD of Economics and Master of Environmental and Resource Economics from the Australian National University and LLM of Mineral Law and Policy from University of Dundee.

• 1. Introduction, Yanrui Wu, Fukunari Kimura and Xunpeng Shi 2. The Status and Prospects of Energy Market Integration in East Asia, Xunpeng Shi and Fukunari Kimura 3. A Regional Public Goods Approach towards EMI in East Asia, Philip Andrews-Speed 4. EMI and Economic Convergence: Implications for East Asia, Yu Sheng and Xunpeng Shi 5. Promoting EMI between China and ASEAN through Trade Facilitation, Jianping Zhang and Daojiong Zha 6. The Asia Premium in Crude Oil Markets, Tilak K. Doshi and Neil Sebastian D'Souza 7. Pricing Reform and Enhanced Investment in the Energy Sector, Anindya Bhattacharya and Satoshi Kojima 8.Global Gas Market Integration and Implications for the EAS Region, Yanrui Wu 9. Towards an Integrated Asia-Pacific Natural Gas Market, Youngho Chang and Yanfei Li