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President Chain Store Corporation's Hsu Chong-Jen: A Case Study of a Salaried Manager in Taiwan

Sato, Yukihito - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2005

Salaried managers have been increasing in top management of many Taiwanese companies. Why and how have their roles become more important? In order to answer these questions, it is necessary to examine the complicated relationships between salaried managers and the founders' families who appoint...

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Is South Sulawesi a Center of Growth in Eastern Indonesia? : Japanese ODA Strategy Revisited

Takahashi, Kazushi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2009

Japanese ODA, especially that undertaken by JICA, has targeted South Sulawesi Province as a core area of development in eastern Indonesia, with hope that the economic growth of South Sulawesi will bring about spillover effects in other regions. This paper tests the validity of the strategy using...

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Agglomeration versus Fragmentation:A Comparison of East Asia and Europe

Hayakawa, Kazunobu; JI, Zheng; Obashi, Ayako - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2009

Inspired by the observed contrasting patterns of industrial distribution in East Asia and Europe, this paper conducts an empirical clarification of the difference in spatial relationships among countries within a region for the electric machinery industry by use of spatial econometric analysis....

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Frontiers of the New Economic Geography

Fujita, Masahisa; Mori, Tomoya - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2005

This paper presents an overview of recent development in the new economic geography (NEG), and discusses possible directions of its future development. Since there already exist several surveys on this topic, we focus on the selected features of the NEG which are important yet have attracted...

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Inferring the Effects of Vertical Integration from Entry Games : An Analysis of the Generic Pharmaceutical Industry

Kubo, Kensuke - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2010

the parameters of a vertical entry game. By carefully specifying firms' payoff equations and constructing appropriate … foreclosure. I estimate the vertical entry model using data from the US generic pharmaceutical industry. The estimates indicate … vertically integrated entry. The simulation results suggest that such a ban is counterproductive; it is likely to reduce entry …

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Understanding traders' regional arbitage : the case of rice traders in Antananarivo, Madagascar

Arimoto, Yutaka; Kono, Hisaki; Ralandison, Tsilavo; … - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

Many studies find that agricultural markets in developing countries are poorly integrated spatially. Traders' regional arbitrage plays a key role in integrating markets across space. We investigate the performance of regional arbitrage and the associated obstacles for rice traders in...

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Competition of the mechanisms : how Chinese home appliance firms coped with default risk of trade credit?

Watanabe, Mariko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

During the transition period from a planned economy to a market economy in 1990s of China, there was a considerable accrual of deferred payment, and default due to inferior enforcement institutions. This is a very common phenomenon in the transition economies at that time. Interviews with home...

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Distribution System of China's Industrial Clusters: Case Study of Yiwu China Commodity City

Ding, Ke - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2006

This paper discusses the issue of upgrading industrial clusters from the perspective of external linkages. It is taken for granted that in most developing countries, due to the limited domestic market and poor traditional commercial networks, industrial clusters are able to upgrade only when...

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Industrial agglomeration in Costa Rica : a descriptive analysis

Kumagai, Satoru; Ueki, Yasushi; Bullón, David; … - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

This paper investigates the current situation of industrial agglomeration in Costa Rica, utilizing firm-level panel data for the period 2008-2012. We calculated Location Quotient and Theil Index based on employment by industry and found that 14 cantons have the industrial agglomerations for 9...

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Simulating heterogeneous multinational firms

Arita, Shawn; Tanaka, Kiyoyasu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

This paper develops a micro-simulation framework for multinational entry and sales activities across countries. The …. Using micro data on Japanese manufacturing firms, we first stylize the empirical regularities of multinational entry and …

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