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Cost Reduction Effects of "pseudo FTAs" in Asia -Application of a price model based on a multilateral I/O table-

Tamamura, Chiharu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2010

This paper examines the repercussion effects on the production cost of industries in Asian countries when some countries eliminate tariffs and import commodity taxes on all imports. This kind of analysis is related in some sense to that measuring the effects of FTAs on economies, and thus may be...

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Estimating the effect of chemical safety standards on firm performance in Malaysia and Vietnam

Otsuki, Tsunehiro; Michida, Etsuyo; Nabeshima, Kaoru; … - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014

such as RoHS and REACH on the production costs and export performance of firms in Malaysia and Vietnam. We find that in … also find that compliance with RoHS and REACH significantly increases the probability of export. Furthermore, we find that … enterprises and firms participating in global value chains generally exhibit better export performance and their costs rise less …

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Freedom Fries

Michaels, Guy; Zhi, Xiaojia - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

Do firms choose inputs that minimize their cost of production, ignoring the attitudes of their owners and employees? We examine this question using an episode of worsening relations between the US and France: from February 2002 to March 2003, France's favorability rating in US public opinion...

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On the Pro-Trade Effects of Immigrants

Bratti, Massimiliano; Benedictis, Luca de; Santoni, Gianluca - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2012

n this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows. We exploit the very favorable set-up offered by the Italian panel data — the fine geographical disaggregation (provinces, i.e., Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics 3 level — NUTS-3), the very high...

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