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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
-level imports in China from ASEAN countries by employing China’s firm-product-level trade data. As a result, controlling for firm …
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Why do oil importers diversify their import sources politically? : evidence from U.S. firm-level data
Kashcheeva, Mila; Tsui, Kevin K. - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
macro evidence, we first show that individual firms diversify their oil imports politically, even after controlling for … unobserved firm heterogeneity. We conjecture that the political pattern of oil imports from these individual firms is driven by … market can adjust their imports immediately, vertically-integrated firms with investment overseas tend to commit to term …
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Do export promotion agencies increase exports?
Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Lee, Hyun-Hoon; Park, Donghyun - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
In this paper, we examine the role of export promotion agencies (EPAs) in promoting exports from Japan and Korea. Looking at two home countries enables us to tackle endogeneity issues by controlling for both country-pair time-invariant characteristics and importing country time-varying...
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Rethinking special and differential treatment in the WTO
Yanai, Akiko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
Special and differential treatment (S&D) allows differentiated treatment for developing countries within the WTO system by justifying a deviation from the most-favoured-nation obligation. Since it was incorporated into the GATT (the predecessor of the WTO) in the 1960s, S&D has played a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721549
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Did the least developed countries benefit from duty-free quota-free access to the Japanese market?
Ito, Tadashi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
Japanese market. The total value of imports from LDCs has been increasing, but the imports granted both zero tariffs and …
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Australia's Foreign Economic Policy: a 'State-Society Coalition' Approach and a Historical Overview
Okamoto, Jiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2006
This paper aims to explain the historical development of Australia's foreign economic policy by using an analytical framework called a 'state-society coalition' approach. This approach focuses on virtual coalitions of state and society actors that share 'belief systems' and hold similar policy...
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How do free trade agreements reduce tariff rates and non-tariff barriers?
Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Kimura, Fukunari - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
This paper empirically investigates how far free trade agreements (FTAs) successfully lower tariff rates and non-tariff barriers (NTBs) for manufacturing industries by employing the bilateral tariff and NTB data in a time series for countries around the world. We find that FTAs under GATT...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010743125
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New measures of FTA liberalization level
Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Nuttawut, Laksanapanyakul - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
This paper proposes new measures of the liberalization level of free trade agreements (FTAs). Our measures take three issues into account. First, in order to identify the differences in FTA liberalization level over time, we compute the annual liberalization level rather than the level during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010743126
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Toward an inclusive and a little bit ethical world trading system : listening to the voices of the people in LDCs
Sato, Kan Hiroshi; Sato, Hiroshi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
Many specialists in international trade have started saying that the era of a mega FTA is approaching. If the three poles of the global economy, namely East Asia, EU and the United States, form mega FTAs, most of the volume of global trade will be covered. That may be fine, but there will be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011147334
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Spillover effects of TTIP on BRICS economies : a dynamic GVC-based CGE model
Cai, Songfeng; Zhang, Yaxiong; Meng, Bo - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
substitution effect between the US–EU trade and the imports from BRICS countries when the TTIP commences. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167318