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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...
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Product quality and intra-industry trade
Ito, Tadashi; Okubo, Toshihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
In this study, we argue that the conventional intra-industry trade (IIT) index does not address the quality issue directly and propose a methodology to make full use of unit-price gap information to deduce quality differences between simultaneously exported and imported products. By applying...
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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Food safety control system of Chinese eel exports and its challenges
Mori, Romio; Nabeshima, Kaoru; Yamada, Nanae - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
This paper analyzes factors associated with the rejection of products at ports of importer countries and remedial actions taken by producers in China. As an example, it uses one of the most competitive agro-food products of China: live and processed eels. This paper provides an overview of eel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010668197
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FTA utilization : certificate of origin data versus customs data
Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Kim, HanSung; Nuttawut, Laksanapanyakul - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
regard to customs data and certificates of origin (CoOs) data. We focus on Thai exports to Korea under the ASEAN-Korea FTA in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010743124
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Myanmar's non-resource export potential after the lifting of economic sanctions : a gravity model analysis
Kubo, Koji - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
Easing of economic sanctions by Western countries in 2012 augmented the prospect that Myanmar will expand its exports …. On the other hand, a sharp rise in natural resource exports during the sanctions brings in a concern about the "Dutch … model that takes into account the effects of natural resource exports on non-resource exports. Without taking into account …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134410
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Impacts of common rules of origin on FTA utilization
Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Nuttawut, Laksanapanyakul - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
(FTAs) on ASEAN-Korea FTA/ASEAN-China FTA utilization in Thai exports in 2011. Our careful empirical analysis suggests that …
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Value added trade and structure of high-technology exports in China
Kuroiwa, Ikuo - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
This study focuses on the technological intensity of China's exports. It first introduces the method of decomposing … gross exports by using the Asian international input–output tables. The empirical results indicate that the technological … intensity of Chinese exports has been significantly overestimated due to its high dependency on import content, especially in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134425
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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 effects of international politics on oil-exporting developing countries
Kashcheeva, Mila; Tsui, Kevin K. - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
International politics affects oil trade. But does it affect the oil-exporting developing countries more? We construct a firm-level dataset for all U.S. oil-importing companies over 1986-2008 to examine how these firms respond to changes in "political distance" between the U.S. and her trading...
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