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The Emergence of ETFs in Asia-Pacific

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This Introduction presents general aims and scopes of this book. It contextualizes this research, showing its targets and setting the time and geographic coverage. It also briefly presents contents of consecutive chapters.

The centrality of finance and financial markets to economic change has been dramatically reinforced by technological change, (…) and this is leading to (…) a more open and interdependent world.

Philip G. Cerny (1994, p. 320)

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Marszk, A., Lechman, E., Kato, Y. (2019). Introduction. In: The Emergence of ETFs in Asia-Pacific. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12752-7_1

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