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Transport Sector and Regional Price Differentials: A SCGE Model for Chinese Provinces
Ando, Asao; Meng, Bo - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2006
existing models. This paper formulates a spatial CGE model that explicitly considers the transport sector and FOB/CIF prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005744792
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How do free trade agreements change import prices? : firm-level evidence from China's imports from ASEAN
Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Yang, Chih-Hai - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
The literature has revealed the positive impacts of free trade agreements (FTAs) on export prices by employing product …-level trade data. This paper empirically examines the impacts of FTAs on import prices at the firm level. We focus on firm … prices of FTA eligible products. Instead, we found a significant increase in import quantities of FTA eligible products. Thus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134431
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The rise and fall in the price of food, fuel and manufactured goods : interdependency between prices and technology determining comparative advantages and development paths
Yamagata, Tatsufumi; Asuyama, Yoko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
purpose, first, trends and short-run fluctuations in the prices of fuel and bio-energy crops are investigated. It is shown …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351439
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Market efficiency of commodity futures in India
Inoue, Takeshi; Hamori, Shigeyuki - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012
prices and then test for market efficiency in a weak form sense by applying both the DOLS and the FMOLS methods. The entire …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010601741
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Trade obstacles, inventory level of inputs, and internationalization of enterprise activities : a comparison between Southeast Asia and Latin America
Ueki, Yasushi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
This paper investigates the impact of trade barriers such as customs clearance, subjective trade obstacles (customs and trade regulations), and inventory of inputs on the internationalization of enterprises in Southeast Asia and Latin America, using the World Bank's enterprise surveys. Empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010890188
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The middle-income trap from the viewpoint of trade structures
Kumagai, Satoru - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
In this study, we try to elucidate the middle-income trap from the viewpoint of international trade. We conduct regression analyses on the relationship between income level and net export ratios for different types of goods for trapped and non-trapped samples separately. Our findings indicate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960464
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On the variety of Mexico's export goods
Ito, Tadashi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
This paper examines the evolution of the variety of Mexico’s export goods using disaggregated trade data. Both the econometric estimation analyses using the raw data and the one using an improved version of Feenstra and Kee's (2004, 2007) methodology proposed in this paper show that NAFTA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213711
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Product quality and intra-industry trade
Ito, Tadashi; Okubo, Toshihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
between Germany and Eastern European countries is clearly narrowing. However, China's export prices to Germany are much lower … than Germany's export prices to China, and this gap has not narrowed over the last 23 years. This is at odds with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213714
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The source of sustainable growth in Costa Rica
Nabeshima, Kaoru; Ito, Tadashi; Tanaka, Kiyoyasu; … - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
Costa Rica has some concerns for the "middle income trap" stemming from her perceived weakening export competitiveness, intensifying competition in attracting FDI inflow; and apparent lack of innovation capabilities. Quantitative analyses on the impact of recent FTAs suggest only large firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213717
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Production sharing, demand spillovers and CO2 emissions : the case of Chinese regions in GVCs
Pei, Jiansuo; Meng, Bo; Wang, Fei; Xue, Jinjun - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
This study adopts the perspective of demand spillovers to provide new insights regarding Chinese domestic-regions' production position in global value chains and their associated CO2 emissions. To this end, we constructed a new type of World Input-Output Database in which China's domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265961