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Inflation targeting in Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines : the impact on business cycle synchronization between each country and the world

Inoue, Takeshi; Toyoshima, Yuki; Hamori, Shigeyuki - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

This paper empirically analyzes whether and to what extent the adoption of inflation targeting (IT) in Korea, Indonesia … dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) model developed by Engle (2002), we find that IT in Asia has little effect on …

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Establishing global value chains through the liberalization of trade in services

Ishido, Hikari - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

This paper addresses the importance of establishing global value chains through the liberalization of trade in services. A database has revealed rather disconnected policy arrangements across APEC members in terms of service trade liberalization. While the economic benefits arising from...

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Harmonization of trade in services by APEC members

Ishido, Hikari - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) and makes some comparative analyses. The study finds that the commitment level differs …

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The policy impact of product-related environmental regulations in Asia

Michida, Etsuyo - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014

countries to introduce regulations that are similar yet modified versions to the EU regulations. Asia as the world manufacturing …

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FTA utilization : certificate of origin data versus customs data

Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Kim, HanSung; Nuttawut, Laksanapanyakul - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

This paper empirically examines what kinds of elements affect the gap in free trade agreement (FTA) utilization with regard to customs data and certificates of origin (CoOs) data. We focus on Thai exports to Korea under the ASEAN-Korea FTA in 2011. As a result, we found that the products with...

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Some practical guidance for the computation of free trade agreement utilization rates

Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Nuttawut, Laksanapanyakul; Shiino, Kohei - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

The literature on the use of free trade agreements (FTAs) has recently been growing because it is becoming more important to encourage the use of current FTAs than to increase the number of FTAs. In this paper, we discuss some practical issues in the computation of FTA utilization rates, which...

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FTA in international finance : impacts of exchange rates on FTA utilization

Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Kim, HanSung; Yoshimi, Taiyo - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

This paper investigates how exchange rates affect the utilization of a free trade agreement (FTA) scheme in trading. Changes in exchange rates affect FTA utilization by two ways. The first way is by changing the excess profits gained by utilizing the FTA scheme, and the second way is by...

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Geographical simulation analysis for logistics enhancement in Asia

Kumagai, Satoru; Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Isono, Ikumo; … - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

This paper presents a simulation of the reduction of several components in trade cost for Asia and examines its impact … and non-manufacturing sectors, and 1,715 regions in 18 countries/economies in Asia, in addition to the two economies of …-tariff barriers, other border clearance costs, transshipment costs and so on. Our simulation analysis for Asia includes several …

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Compilation, application and challenge of IDE-JETRO's International Input-Output tables

Meng, Bo; Zhang, Yaxiong; Inomata, Satoshi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

International input-output tables are among the most useful tools for economic analysis. Since these tables provide detailed information about international production networks, they have recently attracted considerable attention in research on spatial economics, global value chains, and issues...

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Impacts of FTA utilization on firm performance

Hayakawa, Kazunobu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

The international export and investment activities of firms have been widely studied by scholars. In particular, prior studies have focused on two main hypotheses about firms engaged in international activities such as exporting and investing abroad; namely, self-selection of more productive firms...

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