investigate the relationship between location choice and firm characteristics, specifically firms' productivity. Due to Taiwan … with a larger agglomeration of Japanese affiliates or in an area closer to Japan, the more productive Taiwanese firms …

experience from a free trade arrangement with Japan, using a forward-looking, multi-regional, multi-sectoral applied general … that the welfare gains of rushing into trade liberalization with Japan are not so large. This makes out that taking time … people that a free trade deal with Japan will definitely bring positive effects, while proceeding rapidly might be the answer …

the two-digit groups of industries in Japan, the paper estimates region-specific technical efficiency index based on the … the context of globalisation when countries are in dire need of raising productivity. …

find that along with Ricardian technological differences and Heckscher-Ohlin factor-endowment differences, productivity …, machinery, chemicals, and paper products will see lower output shares as a result of decreases in productivity … dominate in the short-run, and factor endowment differences and productivity-adjusted electricity capacity tend to have a …

efficiency, three alternative measures, namely the rate of return, total factor productivity and the Solow residual, were used to … there is a significant scale effect in profitability and productivity, no supporting evidence was found for the positive …

firms mainly stems from high labour cost, while impact of inefficiency is quite small. Productivity accounts little for the …

property rights (IPR) processes on productivity growth. The IPR processes are decomposed into three stages, innovation process … productivity improvement only in developed economies. In addition, the contribution of IPR processes on growth through foreign … processes are proven to improve productivity in the case of developing countries, particularly when the country acts as the …

policy issue. This paper studies the spatial effect of FDI agglomeration on the regional productivity of domestic firms …

productivity have discovered many causal mechanisms involved in globalization's impact on firms' productivity. Since these pathways …