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India in the Global and Regional Trade - Determinants of Aggregate and Bilateral Trade Flows and Firms’ Decision to Export
Srinivasan, T.N.; Archana, Vani - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
This paper contributes to two strands of literature on empirical models of trade flows and trade policy. The first and the older strand is that of gravity models of bilateral trade flows going back to Hans Linneman (1966) and Tinbergen (1962) and its recent applications, particularly by Adams et...
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International Food Safety Standards and India’s Food Exports : An Analysis Based on Gravity Model Using Three-Dimensional Data
Mehta, Rajesh - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
The paper tries to understand precisely how the food safety regulations applied by the industrialized countries have an effect on Indias export of processed food to these markets. It also examines the information deficiencies of Indian firms about international food safety standards, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363471
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Impact of ASEAN-India FTA on India’s Plantation Commodities : A Simulation Analysis
Veeramani, C.; Saini, Gordhan K. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
The present study attempts a quantitative assessment of the impact of recently signed ASEAN-India FTA (AIFTA) for selected plantation commodities (coffee, tea and pepper) in India. We use partial equilibrium modeling approach (SMART model and gravity model) to simulate the likely import increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363752
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Does Appreciation of the RMB Decrease Imports to the U.S. from China?
Yu, Miaojie - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
In 2005, China abated its fixed exchange rate against the U.S. dollar and began to appreciate the Renminbi (RMB). In this paper, I explore the effect of the appreciation of the RMB on imports to the U.S. from China by augmenting the gravity model with the exchange rate. Using an industrial panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365113
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Has Trade Intensity in ASEAN+3 Really Increased? Evidence from a Gravity Analysis
Kim, Heungchong - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2002
This study examines the observable phenomenon of growing trade intensity among the ASEAN+3 countries over the last twenty years by using standard gravity approach. While there is a conventional belief that trade intensities within CJK (China Japan and Korea) and between CJK and ASEAN have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365169
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A Critical Review of Economic Analyses of Religion
Kumar, Vikas - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Recent years have seen increasing interest in economic analyses of religion. We carry out a critical review of … Economics of Religion (EoR) in this review essay. We find that on the one hand EoR has made a significant contribution to … enhance our understanding of secular trappings of religion and to break the stranglehold of non-rational approach to religion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365521
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Exchange Rate Policy and Regional Trade Agreements : A Case of Conflicted Interests?
Pomfret, Richard; Pontines, Victor - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
The results highlight the conflicting interests of countries — to stabilize exchange rates or to keep the option of exchange rate depreciation in order to maintain competitiveness of domestic tradable producers. With deepening integration in East Asia, however, the desire for exchange...
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Understanding Innovation in Production Networks in East Asia
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
This paper explores the “black box†of innovation in the electronics production network in East Asia through a mapping exercise of technological capabilities and an econometric analysis of exporting in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Thailand, and the Philippines....
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Impact of the ASEAN Economic Community on ASEAN Production Networks
Cheewatrakoolpong, Kornkarun; Sabhasri, Chayodom; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
Empirical evidence suggests that the emergence of international production networks in East Asia results from market-driven forces such as vertical specialization and higher production costs in the home countries and institutional-led reasons such as free trade agreements. The growth in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278001
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Joining Pre-existing International Production Networks : Implications for India’s Economic Integration to East Asia
Suh, Jeongmeen; Kim, Jong Duk - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
This study provides a conceptual framework to explain what kinds of difficulties a late-follower will suffer from when it tries to join pre-existing International Production Networks (IPNs). We consider the total production cost minimization problem by a multinational company (MNC) in allocating...
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