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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 Chinaâ€™s industrial clusters …

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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. …

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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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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 …

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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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Factor decomposition of income inequality change : Japan's regional income disparity from 1955 to 1998

Higashikata, Takayuki - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

We propose a method for the decomposition of inequality changes based on panel data regression. The method is an efficient way to quantify the contributions of variables to changes of the Theil T index while satisfying the property of uniform addition. We illustrate the method using prefectural...

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Agglomeration and directional imbalance of freight rates : the role of density economies in the transport sector

Tsubota, Kenmei - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

This paper examines the conventional assumption that bilateral transport costs are symmetric. We develop an economic geography model with transport sector in which asymmetric freight rates can occur as a result of density economies. Comparing this to models without density economies, we show...

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Agglomeration effects of informal sector: evidence from Cambodia

Tanaka, Kiyoyasu; Hashiguchi, Yoshihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

The presence of a large informal sector in developing economies poses the question of whether informal activity produces agglomeration externalities. This paper uses data on all the nonfarm establishments and enterprises in Cambodia to estimate the impact of informal agglomeration on the...

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Spatial spillovers from FDI agglomeration : evidence from the Yangtze River Delta in China

Tanaka, Kiyoyasu; Hashiguchi, Yoshihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

Foreign firms have clustered together in the Yangtze River Delta, and their impact on domestic firms is an important policy issue. This paper studies the spatial effect of FDI agglomeration on the regional productivity of domestic firms, using Chinese firm-level data. To identify local FDI...

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Market Access and Intermediate Goods Trade

Hayakawa, Kazunobu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2009

The role of importer access to the finished goods market in intermediate goods trade is examined by estimating the … goods market expansion on intermediate goods trade in each country is simulated. …

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