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INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND EVNVIRONMENTAL POLICY : HOW EFFECTIVE IS ‘ECO-DUMPING’?
Xu, Xinpeng - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 1999
The effects of environmental regulations on the international competitiveness of domestic industries have become an increasing concern in the trade liberalisation process in the 1990s. This paper examines the significance of environmental policy for trade. A generalised GNP function, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363386
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EXPORT PERFORMANCE OF ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE GOODS : A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Xu, Xinpeng - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 1998
empirical finding is that export performance of ESGs for most of the countries remained unchanged between the 1960s and 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363487
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TAIWAN'S ROLE IN THE ECONOMIC ARCHITECTURE OF EAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
Drysdale, Peter; Xu, Xinpeng - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2004
The accession of both China and Taiwan to the World Trade Organization (WTO) had important implications for relations across the Taiwan Strait and Taiwans position in the regional economy although it did not fundamentally change trade policies by either side towards the other. Accession...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365156
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Does Finance Really Matter for the Participation of SMEs in International Trade? Evidence from 8,080 East Asian Firms
Jinjarak, Yothin; Mutuc, Paulo Jose; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank - 2014
This paper studies factors associated with firm participation in export markets, focusing primarily on firm size and … interdependent relationships between export participation, firm size, and access to credit. SMEs participating in export markets tend … participation in export markets. The estimation results also point to the supportive influences of foreign ownership, worker …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010840238
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Regional Trade Agreements and Enterprises in Southeast Asia
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank - 2013
This paper undertakes a comparative and firm-level analysis of the impact of regional trade agreements (RTAs) in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. It finds that firm-heterogeneity matters in RTA use. Acquiring knowledge about RTAs, building technological capabilities, and membership of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010840244
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Does Finance Really Matter for the Participation of SMEs in International Trade? Evidence from 8,080 East Asian Firms
Jinjarak, Yothin; Mutuc, Paulo Jose; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014
This paper studies factors associated with firm participation in export markets, focusing primarily on firm size and … interdependent relationships between export participation, firm size, and access to credit. SMEs participating in export markets tend … participation in export markets. The estimation results also point to the supportive influences of foreign ownership, worker …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010901625
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SME Internationalization through Global Value Chains and Free Trade Agreements: Malaysian Evidence
Arudchelvan, Menaka; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank - 2015
Growing internationalization of firms in Asia through participation in global value chains (GVCs) and free trade agreements (FTAs) has focused attention on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Yet there is scant literature on the characteristics of SMEs involved in GVCs and FTAs. Malaysia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011170491
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Why Do SMEs Not Borrow More from Banks? Evidence from the People's Republic of China and Southeast Asia
Wignaraja, Ganeshan; Jinjarak, Yothin - Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank - 2015
age, and export participation. Fourth, personal assets of SME owners tend to matter more as collateral for SME borrowing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118438
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Regional Trade Agreements and Enterprises in Southeast Asia
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
The spread of regional trade agreements (RTAs) in Southeast Asia has ignited a debate about their impact on business, and ways to avoid raising the business costs from the Asian ‘noodle bowl’ effect. This paper undertakes a comparative and firm-level analysis of the impact of RTAs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134359