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Froot, Kenneth (ed.) - 1993

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Affiliates of U.S. and Japanese Multinationals in East Asian Production and Trade

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000

Since 1977, and in some cases starting before that, most East Asian countries' export patterns in manufacturing have been transformed from industry distributions typical of developing countries to distributions more like those of advanced countries. The process of change in most cases started...

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Exports and Manufacturing Productivity in East Asia : A Comparative Analysis with Firm-Level Data

Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2002

This paper uses new firm level data from five East Asian countries to explore the patterns of manufacturing productivity across the region. One of the striking patterns that emerges is how the extent of openness and the competitiveness of markets affects the relative productivity of firms across...

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Is Japan Creating a Yen Bloc in East Asia and the Pacific?

Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 1992

This paper reaches seven conclusions regarding the Yen Bloc that Japan is reputed to be forming in Pacific Asia. (1 … is no evidence of a special Japan effect. (3) Once one properly accounts for rapid growth in Asia, the statistics do not … Asian countries, though overall its influence is as yet no greater than that of New York. (6) Some of Japan's financial and …

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East Asian Financial and Economic Development

Morck, Randall - 2017

Japan, an isolated, backward country in the 1860s, industrialized rapidly to become a major industrial power by the …

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Are Commodity Futures Prices Barometers of the Global Economy?

Hu, Conghui - 2013

prices of East Asian economies including China, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. We find significant and positive …

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Regionalism and rivalry : Japan and the United States in Pacific Asia

Frankel, Jeffrey A. (ed.); Kahler, Miles (contributor) - 1993

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A Dynamic Theory of Resource Wars

Acemoglu, Daron - 2011

We develop a dynamic theory of resource wars and study the conditions under which such wars can be prevented. The interaction between the scarcity of resources and the incentives for war in the presence of limited commitment is at the center of our theory. We show that a key parameter...

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Stopping Suicide Attacks : Optimal Strategies and Unintended Consequences

McBride, Michael - 2010

Governments fighting terrorists have many tactical options, yet these options often yield unintended and counterproductive consequences. This paper models a terrorist organization, a religious group from which the terrorists recruit suicide bombers, and the society in which the terrorists are...

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Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq

Berman, Eli - 2008

We develop and test an economic theory of insurgency motivated by the informal literature and by recent military doctrine. We model a three-way contest between violent rebels, a government seeking to minimize violence by mixing service provision and coercion, and civilians deciding whether to...

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