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An export strategy and technology networks in the Republic of Korea
Mizuno, Junko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
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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Paths of Development and Wage VariationsPaths of Development and Wage Variations
Kiyota, Kozo - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 2007
In analyzing the relationship between factor endowments and sectoral percapita output (the path of development), Schott (2003) showed empirically that the number of cones was neither one nor three but two, and that all countries fall into one of these two cones. This is a puzzle because it is...
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Production networks in the Asia-Pacific region : facts and policy implications
Hiratsuka, Daisuke - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
foreign, but it may discourage a country from becoming an export platform. …
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Do export promotion agencies increase exports?
Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Lee, Hyun-Hoon; Park, Donghyun - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
In this paper, we examine the role of export promotion agencies (EPAs) in promoting exports from Japan and Korea …
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Exchange Rate Volatility, Financial Constraints and Trade: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Firms
Héricourt, Jérôme; Poncet, Sandra - CESifo - 2013
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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Intellectual Property Rights, Technology Transfer and Exports in Developing Countries
Yang, Lei; Maskus, Keith E. - CESifo - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406245
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Myanmar and Japan: How Close Friends Become Estranged
Kudo, Toshihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2007
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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JETRO and Japan's Postwar Export Promotion System: Messages for Latin American Export Promotion Agencies
Sakurai, Teiji - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2007
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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Directional imbalance of freight rates : evidence from Japanese inter-prefectural data
Tanaka, Kiyoyasu; Tsubota, Kenmei - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
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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Exports and Property Prices in France: Are they Connected?
Egert, Balazs; Kierzenkowski, Rafal - CESifo - 2010
France has seen a marked deterioration in its export performance in the last 10 years or so. Previous empirical … research pointed out that weak export performance was due to i) vigorous domestic demand; ii) lower mark-ups due to head …-to-head competition with Germany; iii) low non-price competitiveness of French export goods; iv) offshoring of entire production processes …
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