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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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A fundamental question in monopolistic competition theory is whether the market allocates resources efficiently. This paper generalizes the Spence-Dixit-Stiglitz framework to heterogeneous firms, addressing when the market provides optimal quantities, variety and productivity. Under constant...
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This paper analyses some of the forces that are changing the spatial distribution of activity in the world economy. It draws on the 'new economic geography' literature to argue the importance of increasing returns to scale and cumulative causation processes in shaping the productivity and...
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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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We survey the micro and macro literature on the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on productivity. The "Solow Paradox" of the absence of an impact of ICT on productivity no longer holds, if it ever did. Both growth accounting and econometric evidence suggest an...
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This paper reviews the new approach to international trade based on firm heterogeneity in differentiated product markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity of exporters relative to non-exporters, within-industry...
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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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multi-product firms, offshoring, intra-firm trade and firm export market dynamics. …
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to export markets, other papers stress the importance of import competition. Since imports and exports (and even tariffs … conducts a "horse race" between export opportunities and import competition. Using Spanish firm level data, instrumenting for … exports and imports with tariff changes and controlling for selection, I find robust evidence that access to export markets …
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East Asian economies have been heavily dependent on the U.S. and EU markets, especially for the export of final goods … of the East Asian economies which have adopted an export-led growth strategy. Such vulnerability needs to be addressed to …
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