flows generally follow a rational pattern despite the fact that market indicators indicate that rice trade across regions is …

market integration. …

/or quality grading systems and, if so, how they assess that unobservable quality, using a rice retail market in Madagascar as an … causes of the rice market's spatial disintegration. Thus, quality standards and grading systems will be necessary to increase … the market's efficiency. We hypothesize that consumers and retailers use product origin and rice name as observable …

for granted that in most developing countries, due to the limited domestic market and poor traditional commercial networks … institution . the transaction market . began to appear in most clusters. These markets within the clusters get connected to those … of a powerful market network-based distribution system which has played a crucial role for China’s industrial clusters …

China’s huge domestic market is constantly expanding, and is low-end demand oriented and highly dispersed. The … domestic market-based development of China’s industrial cluster, however, is not only a quantitative expansion, but has also … make the case that under modern China’s market conditions, the local public sector is the crucial driving force for …

increasing impacts of Global G.A.P., many Asian countries have introduced the country versions of GAPs; China GAP, Japan GAP …

generate a 30.7% improvement in aggregate productivity through market-share reallocation. …

East Asia, within which China, Japan, and Korea are most important in terms of technological capabilities. Using Japanese … patent data, we examine how knowledge networks have developed among these countries. We find that Japan's technological …

on products from Japan. Also, accessibility to other locations and/or ports matters in attracting Japanese MNEs because …

East Asia, within which China, Japan, and Korea are most important in terms of technological capabilities. Using U ….S. patent data, we examine how knowledge networks have developed among these countries. We find that Japan's technological …