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International price dispersion and market segmentation in Japan and the United States: Theory and empirics
Fung, Kwok-Chiu; Garcia-Herrero, Alicia; Ng, Francis - 2013
This paper focuses on the pricing behavior of Japanese and United States firms selling their identical products in New York City, Chicago, Osaka, and Tokyo. The authors utilize some simple models of international price dispersion and market segmentation that generate predictions about testable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397262
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Global production networks and the People's Republic of China's processing trade
Ma, Alyson; Van Assche, Ari; Hong, Chang - 2009
-section of the PRC's provinces, the average distance traveled by processing imports (import distance) is negatively correlated …
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Globalization and the labor share in national income
Doan, Ha Thi Thanh; Wan, Guanghua - 2017
Contradicting the conventional wisdom of constant factor shares, the portion of national income accruing to labor has been trending downward in the last three decades. This decline must have contributed to rising inequality as labor income is more evenly distributed than capital income. This...
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The People's Republic of China's Import Competition and Skill Demand in Japanese Manufacturing
Yamashita, Nobuaki - 2017
This paper examines the hypothesis that manufacturing industries in Japan that have been exposed to import competition from the People's Republic of China (PRC) experience greater skill upgrading (increased demand for skilled workers). Using an industry panel dataset over the period 1980–2010,...
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The Yuan’s Exchange Rates and Pass-Through Effects on the Prices of Japanese and US Imports
Xing, Yuqing - 2010
This paper estimated the pass-though effects of yuan's exchange rates on prices of the US and Japanese imports from the ….23% increase in prices of the US imports in the short run and 0.47% in the long run. Japanese import prices were relatively more … imports at either the aggregate or disaggregated levels. The estimated low pass-through effects of the yuan's appreciation …
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Digital trade in Europe and Central Asia
Tan, Shawn W. - 2017
The Internet greatly increases firms' potential to produce new goods and service for new markets. The Internet is also having a dramatic impact on services, especially in the retail, trade and finance sectors, by enabling firms to digitize their products and deliver them over long distances....
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Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of e-commerce users in Indonesia
Hasyyati, Atika Nashirah - 2017
Nowadays, it is very important to capture the data relating to the e-commerce phenomenon. It is related to the use of information and communication technology (ICT), not only in the ICT sector, but in all sectors. ICT can accelerate the development of economies, which, in turn, impacts social...
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E-commerce development and entrepreneurship in the People's Republic of China
Huang, Bihong; Shaban, Mohamed; Song, Quanyun; Wu, Yu - 2018
In this paper, we utilize an e-commerce development indicator in tandem with big data to measure the variations of e-commerce development across counties in the People's Republic of China and assess its impact on entrepreneurship in both rural and urban areas. We find that households living in...
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Benchmarking adoption of e-commerce across the G20 members
Goyal, Tanu M.; Morgan, Peter J. - 2023
The COVID-19 situation has accelerated the adoption of e-commerce across the world. While, globally, there has been an increase in the share of e-commerce in total retail sales, there are variations in e-commerce adoption across countries and the difference is obtrusive when one compares...
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Economic implications of deeper South Asian-Southeast Asian integration: A CGE approach
Wignaraja, Ganeshan; Morgan, Peter; Plummer, Michael; … - 2014
South and Southeast Asian economic integration via increased trade flows has been increasing significantly over the past 2 decades, but the level of trade continues to be relatively low. This underperformance has been due to both policy-related variables - relatively high tariff and non-tariff...
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