Competition Among Asean Members in the East Asia Market : An Extension to Shift-Share Analysis

This paper provides a new extension to the shift-share analysis to attribute the net shift to competing economies with a dynamic approach. This new extension is applied to analyze the competition among the ASEAN members in the East Asian (China, Japan and Korea) market for the year from 1998-2007. Although in terms of market share, Indonesia and Malaysia take the lead in the East Asia, the dynamic shift-share analysis suggests that the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia are gainers during 1998-2007 with positive net shifts and positive competitiveness effects