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The information and communication technology (ICT) revolution of the past 3 decades has transformed the world into an integrated marketplace. Today, producers and consumers alike are able to compare the prices of local businesses and worldwide sellers. For an increasing number of tradable goods,...
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The information and communication technology (ICT) revolution of the past 3 decades has transformed the world into an integrated marketplace. Today, producers and consumers alike are able to compare the prices of local businesses and worldwide sellers. For an increasing number of tradable goods,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010857584
York City, Chicago, Osaka, and Tokyo. The authors utilize some simple models of international price dispersion and market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277998
This paper discusses Japan’s strategy for Asian monetary integration. It argues that Japan faces three major policy … a leadership role in this endeavor. There is no question that Japan and the PRC are such potential leaders, and the two … monetary zone in Asia, Japan needs to make significant efforts at the national and regional levels and further strengthen …
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Asia is fast becoming the largest recipient of Japan's foreign direct investment (FDI). Within the Asian region, the … Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been the major investment destination of Japan. In the manufacturing sectors …, however, the investment flows from Japan to ASEAN—with Thailand being the largest recipient—has been declining. In …
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Japan’s changing structure of trade, FDI and economy that underlay policy changes. We argue that until the late 1990s Japan … Japan-US bilateralism sometimes resulted in “managed trade†and encountered negative perceptions of the US approach in … Japan, overall, it had a positive impact on the Japanese economy in opening domestic markets through various reforms and …
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will work independently of one another. When the Government of Japan announced its participation in the TPP negotiations in …
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This paper discusses Japan’s strategy for Asian monetary integration. It argues that Japan faces three major policy … a leadership role in this endeavor. There is no question that Japan and the PRC are such potential leaders, and the two … monetary zone in Asia, Japan needs to make significant efforts at the national and regional levels and further strengthen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278111
The Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011 was the biggest earthquake recorded in Japanese seismic history …-generated electric power has largely been cut off since then. Production supply chains were significantly disrupted, not only in Japan … suggest that Japan needs to create its own growth momentum without relying excessively on markets in the United States (US …
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Japan’s “two lost decades†perhaps represent an extreme example of a weak recovery from a financial crisis, and are now referred to as “Japanization.†More recently, widespread stagnation in advanced economies in the wake of the global financial crisis led to fears...
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