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Focusing on the adjustment of working-capital financing, we find two pieces of supporting evidence from international firm-level panel data covering the period 2002:I-2012:IV. First, for industries where specific investment in the input supplier-customer relationship is large, firms are more...
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This paper revisits the issue of exchange rate regimes in emerging Asia. It is divided into two main parts. The first … part compares de jure and de facto exchange rate regimes in Asia over the decade 1999–2009. The second part focuses on the …
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aroused widespread concerns in Asia and elsewhere regarding its possible impact in terms of the weakening of the US dollar and …
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This paper discusses the relevance of Basel III to Asian emerging markets. It reviews some of the proposed regulations of Basel III in order to evaluate their likely implications for, and their ability to enhance, the stability of the banking and financial system. This is followed by a...
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Asia increased substantially in response to quantitative easing in the United States financial market. The results of this … study confirm the existence of the bank lending channel in Asia and emphasize the role of credit flows in transmitting … found that the overall spillover effect was large but differed significantly in Asia by types of borrowing firms, financing …
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, Japan is not only one of the most energy-efficient economies in the world; it also produces some of the world's leading … green technologies. This paper focuses on current trends in the green product market and consumer behavior in Japan, which …
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Within East Asia, the outward-oriented Philippine economy is a latecomer to using free trade agreements (FTAs) as a …
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Within East Asia, the outward-oriented Philippine economy is a latecomer to using free trade agreements (FTAs) as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014198817
In this paper, the authors use the iPhone as a case to show that even high-tech products invented by United States (US) companies will not increase US exports, but on the contrary exacerbate the US trade deficit. The iPhone contributed US$1.8 billion to the US trade deficit with the People's...
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This paper illustrates the upgrading experiences of the automotive and hard disk drive (HDD) industries in Thailand, chosen because of their outstanding export performance in the developing world. An understanding of their upgrading experiences can shed some light on the ongoing debate regarding...
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