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Exporting and Performance of Plants : Evidence from Korean Manufacturing
Hahn, Chin Hee - 2004
questions examined are whether exporting improves productivity (learning) and/or whether more productive plants export (self … pronounced at around the time of entry into and exit from the export market. Thus, positive and robust cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468486
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Exports and Manufacturing Productivity in East Asia : A Comparative Analysis with Firm-Level Data
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2002
markets affects the relative productivity of firms across the region. Firms with foreign ownership and firms that export are … firm characteristics available in the database to explore the sources of export firms' greater productivity. We argue that … it is in aiming for export markets that firms make decisions that raise productivity. It is not simply that more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469820
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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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Sri Lanka's Trade Policies: Back to Protectionism
Pursell, Garry; Ahsan, F.M. Ziaul - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
In 1977 Sri Lanka was the first of the South Asian countries to decisively move away from the protectionist import-substitution trade policies that for many years had damaged their economic efficiency and hobbled their economic growth. Albeit with back-tracking episodes, Sri Lanka's liberalising...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861949
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365995
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Bilateral tariff rates in international trade : finished goods versus intermediate goods
Hayakawa, Kazunobu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
In this paper, we examined back-and-forth international transactions through tariff reduction by estimating modified gravity equations for finished goods and intermediate goods separately. Our main findings are as follows. Exports of finished machinery products are negatively associated with not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351446
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Tariff reductions and labor demand elasticities : evidence from Chinese firm-level data
Sato, Hitoshi; Zhu, Lianming - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
heterogenous firm model in which firms are allowed to export their products and to use imported intermediate inputs. The model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757634
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Trade policy substitution: Theory and evidence from Specific Trade Concerns
Beverelli, Cosimo; Boffa, Mauro; Keck, Alexander - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2014
We investigate to what extent the probability that a Specific Trade Concern (STC) is raised in the WTO against a Member in a given sector is affected by past reductions in applied tariffs. Employing an identification strategy based on 'new measures', we find evidence of a substitution of...
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Intra-regional trade between China, Japan, and Korea : before and after the financial crisis
Kuroiwa, Ikuo; Ozeki, Hiromichi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564653
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Modeling Exchange-Rate Passthrough After Large Devaluations
Burstein, Ariel - 2005
Large devaluations are generally associated with large declines in real exchange rates. We develop a model which embodies two complementary forces that account for the large declines in the real exchange rate that occur in the aftermath of large devaluations. The first force is sticky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467039