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Spillover effects of TTIP on BRICS economies : a dynamic GVC-based CGE model

Cai, Songfeng; Zhang, Yaxiong; Meng, Bo - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

This paper uses a GVC (Global Value Chain)-based CGE model to assess the impact of TTIP between the U.S. and the EU on their main trading partners who are mainly engaged at the low end in the division system of global value chains, such as BRICS countries. The simulation results indicate that in...

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Do export promotion agencies increase exports?

Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Lee, Hyun-Hoon; Park, Donghyun - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

In this paper, we examine the role of export promotion agencies (EPAs) in promoting exports from Japan and Korea. Looking at two home countries enables us to tackle endogeneity issues by controlling for both country-pair time-invariant characteristics and importing country time-varying...

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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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How do free trade agreements reduce tariff rates and non-tariff barriers?

Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Kimura, Fukunari - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014

-tariff barriers (NTBs) for manufacturing industries by employing the bilateral tariff and NTB data in a time series for countries ….1% points and 1.5% points, respectively. In the case of NTBs, their respective impacts are 6.6% points and 5.7% points … role in reducing NTBs. These results provide important implications for the literature on numerical assessments of FTAs. …

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New measures of FTA liberalization level

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

This paper proposes new measures of the liberalization level of free trade agreements (FTAs). Our measures take three issues into account. First, in order to identify the differences in FTA liberalization level over time, we compute the annual liberalization level rather than the level during...

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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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East Asia's Economic Development cum Trade "Divergence"

Ishido, Hikari - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2004

This paper addresses some salient features of how some of "successful" East Asian economies have been faring in terms of enhancing their export competitiveness. That export becomes more divergent in terms of its unit price as more technology-enhancing economic activity is undertaken within an...

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Impacts of common rules of origin on FTA utilization

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

This paper examines empirically the impacts of sharing rules of origin (RoOs) with other ASEAN+1 free trade agreements (FTAs) on ASEAN-Korea FTA/ASEAN-China FTA utilization in Thai exports in 2011. Our careful empirical analysis suggests that the harmonization of RoOs across FTAs play some role...

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How do free trade agreements change import prices? : firm-level evidence from China's imports from ASEAN

Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Yang, Chih-Hai - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

The literature has revealed the positive impacts of free trade agreements (FTAs) on export prices by employing product-level trade data. This paper empirically examines the impacts of FTAs on import prices at the firm level. We focus on firm-level imports in China from ASEAN countries by...

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Financial permeation as a role of microfinance : has microfinance actually been helpful to the poor?

Inoue, Takeshi; Hamori, Shigeyuki - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

This article is distinct in its application of the logit transformation to the poverty ratio for the purpose of empirically examining whether the financial sector helps improve standards of living for low-income people. We propose the term financial permeation to describe how financial networks...

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