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The Asian “Noodle Bowlâ€:Is It Serious for Business?
Kawai, Masahiro; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - eSocialSciences - 2009
A lively debate is taking place over the impact of free trade agreements (FTAs) on East Asia's business between those who view the agreements as a harmful Asian "noodle bowl"—i.e., overlapping regional trade agreements—of trade deals and others who see net beneficial effects in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045004
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The Post-Crisis Sequencing of Economic Integration in Asia: Trade as a Complement to a Monetary Future
Plummer, Michael G.; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - In: Economie Internationale (2006) 107, pp. 59-85
Bilateral and regional cooperation initiatives in Asia have been growing in importance over the last five years. These accords span the real and financial sectors; rather than following the more typical pattern of “trade first, money later”, recent policy initiatives involve the simultaneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022515
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Outsourcing and skill-specific employment in a small economy: Austria and the fall of the Iron Curtain
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2000
We present a model, in which a small industrialised economy outsources part of its production into a small foreign country which is well endowed with low-skilled labour. We analyse under which conditions sinking trade costs stimulate outsourcing activities, thereby increasing the wage dispersion...
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Migration and Trade
Egger, Peter; Ehrlich, Maximilian Von; Nelson, Douglas R. - CESifo - 2011
Theoretical and empirical research in economics suggests that bilateral migration triggers bilateral trade through a number of channels. This paper assesses the functional form of the impact of migration on trade flows in a quasi-experimental setting. We provide evidence that the relationship is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024841
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Cultural Integration and Export Variety Overlap Across Countries
Egger, Peter; Lassmann, Andrea - CESifo - 2014
This paper assesses the role of a larger degree of common language use between the populations of two countries on the so-called extensive product margin of trade. We focus on the overlap of products exported or imported between any pair of countries. The results suggest that the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775096
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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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Panel Data Gravity Models of International Trade
Baltagi, Badi H.; Egger, Peter; Pfaffermayr, Michael - CESifo - 2014
One of the oldest and largest literatures in empirical economics is concerned with the estimation of demand and supply of goods, services, and factors across national or subnational borders (see Leamer and Levinsohn, 1995). The respective empirical models specified and estimated are often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739343
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Foreign Ownership, Technological Capabilities and Exports: Evidence from 205 Clothing Firms in Sri Lanka
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006
Sri Lanka was the earliest South Asian economy to introduce economic reforms to attract export-oriented FDI. The rise … of clothing production for export, apparently mainly driven by foreign firms, is regarded as a major outcome of the … reforms. This paper seeks to examine a range of factors underlying firm-level export and technological performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712078
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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