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While bringing unprecedented prosperity to post-war Japan, her "economic miracle" at the same time led to greater … home to the Japanese by events in the early 1970’s. As Japan’s small land; poor natural resources and large population …
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In the last issue of INTERECONOMICS Nobumitsu Kagami analysed Japan’s behavioural pattern and role in the international …
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There are important reasons why Japan's policy regarding imports of technology should find its place in the literature … devoted to the economic development of Asia, Africa and Latin America. It is Japan which mastered to a highest degree the … educational settings, the possibility of drawing from Japan's experience by developing countries seems considerable. …
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The European Union is currently negotiating free trade agreements, called Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), with African countries as part of the Cotonou Agreement between the European Union and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. The paper empirically assesses the impact of the EPAs...
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Using quantile regression and a rich cross section data set for German manufacturing plants this paper documents that the impact of plant characteristics on export activities varies along the conditional size distribution of the export/sales ratio.
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Gains from productivity and knowledge transmission arising from the presence of foreign firms has received a good deal of empirical attention, but micro-foundations for this mechanism are weak . Here we focus on production by foreign experts who may train domestic unskilled workers who work with...
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The use of information plays an important role in the choice of transfer prices (TP). We discuss the information provision of two centralized mechanisms, namely, actual-cost and standard-cost based TP. Actual cost based TP use all available cost information whereas standard cost based TP only...
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