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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
market integration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213715
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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
for granted that in most developing countries, due to the limited domestic market and poor traditional commercial networks … institution . the transaction market . began to appear in most clusters. These markets within the clusters get connected to those … of a powerful market network-based distribution system which has played a crucial role for China’s industrial clusters …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395993
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011249495
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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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Heterogeneous multinational firms and productivity gains from falling FDI barriers
Arita, Shawn; Tanaka, Kiyoyasu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012
generate a 30.7% improvement in aggregate productivity through market-share reallocation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650719
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Multiplant strategy under core-periphery structure
Tsubota, Kenmei - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012
A typical implicit assumption on monopolistic competition models for trade and economic geography is that firms can produce and sell only at one place. This paper fallows endogenous determination of the number of plants in a new economic geography model and examine the stable outcomes of...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351426
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Linked versus Non-linked Firms in Innovation: The Effects of Economies of Network in Agglomeration in East Asia
Machikita, Tomohiro; Ueki, Yasushi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2009
This paper proposes a new mechanism linking innovation and network in developing economies to detect explicit production and information linkages and investigates the testable implications of these linkages using survey data gathered from manufacturing firms in East Asia. We found that firms...
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