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export share and productivity gains. Productivity growth declines with the share of exports on total sales, up to a threshold …, productivity gains also arise for smaller export shares. One likely explanation of this finding is that being successful in the … export market for exporters of traditional products also requires investments in technological upgrading. These investments …
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In Korea, trade with Japan has had a deficit since the normalization of Japan-Korea diplomatic relations in 1965. Korea’s trade balance with Japan has remained in deficit since then, although Korean companies have become bigger compared to Japanese companies. My hypothesis is that the...
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foreign, but it may discourage a country from becoming an export platform. …
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In this paper, we examine the role of export promotion agencies (EPAs) in promoting exports from Japan and Korea …
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This paper studies how firm-level export performance is affected by Real Exchange Rate (RER) volatility and … investigates whether this effect depends on existing financial constraints. Our empirical analysis relies on export data for more … this negative impact, especially on the intensive margin of export. These results provide micro-founded evidence suggesting …
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Trade theory traces back different patterns of internationalization to heterogeneity between firms, measured both through differences in productivity levels and size. In this paper we analyze the link-between heterogeneity within sectors and internationalization choices, namely trade and foreign...
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We develop a model to analyze one mechanism under which stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection may improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break intoexport markets. A Northern firm with a superior process technology chooses either exports or technology transfer...
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Independent Myanmar and Japan had long held the strongest ties among Asian countries, and they were often known as having "special relations" or a "historically friendly relationship." Such relations were guaranteed by the sentiments and experiences of the leaders of both countries. Among...
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This paper tries to explain how the Japanese postwar export promotion system worked and what kind of roles JETRO played … in this system. Two case studies of JETRO's successful export promotion activities were also introduced. The paper also … American Export Promotion Agencies, based upon JETRO's postwar experiences. …
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By analyzing a comprehensive dataset on transport transactions in Japan, we describe a directional imbalance in freight rates by transport mode and examine its potential sources, such as economies of density and directionally imbalanced transport flow. There are certain numbers of observed links...
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