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Globalization and productivity : a survey of firm-level analysis

Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Kimura, Fukunari; Machikita, Tomohiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2010

Recent empirical studies which utilize plant- or establishment-level data to examine globalization's impact on … productivity have discovered many causal mechanisms involved in globalization's impact on firms' productivity. Since these pathways … globalization become visible. This strategy is useful for detecting missing links within and across the existing studies as well as …

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Stigma, social relationship and HIV testing in the workplace : evidence from South Africa

Arimoto, Yutaka; Ito, Seiro; Kudo, Yuya; Tsukada, Kazunari - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

This paper explores whether a worker's unwillingness to make his/her HIV-positive status or test-taking experience known by colleagues impedes his/her decision to test for HIV. After analyzing the new survey data provided by employees working for a large multinational enterprise in South Africa...

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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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Theory and empirics of Markusen type multinationals

Uchida, Yoko; Oyamada, Kazuhiko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

Research on multinational firmsâ€™ activity has been conducted widely since late 1980s. The literature is differentiated into three types: horizontal FDI, vertical FDI, and three-country FDI, represented by export platform FDI. There are other methods of differentiation of the literature by...

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Is FTA/EPA effective for a developing country to attract FDI? : simulation analysis based on an extended knowledge-capital model

Oyamada, Kazuhiko; Uchida, Yoko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

To prepare an answer to the question of how a developing country can attract FDI, this paper explored the factors and policies that may help bring FDI into a developing country by utilizing an extended version of the knowledge-capital model. With a special focus on the effects of FTAs/EPAs...

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Export platform FDI and firm heterogeneity

Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Tanaka, Kiyoyasu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

This paper investigates theoretically and empirically firms' productivity ranking among traditional horizontal foreign direct investment (HFDI), pure platform FDI (PFDI), and complex platform FDI (CFDI). Using data on Japanese outward FDI, we define firms conducting HFDI or PFDI as those...

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Production networks in the Asia-Pacific region : facts and policy implications

Hiratsuka, Daisuke - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

Production networks have been extensively developed in the Asia-Pacific region. This paper employs two micro-level approaches, case studies and econometric analysis, using JETRO's firm surveys which investigate Japanese affiliates operating in Southeast Asia. These two approaches found that...

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Transport modal choice by multinational firms : firm-level evidence from Southeast Asia

Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Tanaka, Kiyoyasu; Ueki, Yasushi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

We examine transport modal decision by multinational firms to shed light on the role of freight logistics in multinational activity. Using a firm-level survey in Southeast Asia, we show that foreign ownership has a significantly positive and quantitatively large impact on the likelihood that...

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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 model is based on Eaton, Kortum, and Kramarz's (2010) quantitative trade model adapted towards multinational production. Using micro data on Japanese manufacturing firms, we first...

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Location choice in low-income countries : evidence from Japanese investments in East Asia

Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Tsubota, Kenmei - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

Unlike most existing studies, this paper examines the location choices of MNEs in developing countries. Specifically, we investigate the location choices of Japanese MNEs among East Asian developing countries by estimating a four-stage nested logit model at the province level. Noteworthy results...

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