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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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Bilateral tariff rates in international trade : finished goods versus intermediate goods
Hayakawa, Kazunobu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
In this paper, we examined back-and-forth international transactions through tariff reduction by estimating modified gravity equations for finished goods and intermediate goods separately. Our main findings are as follows. Exports of finished machinery products are negatively associated with not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351446
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Intra-regional trade between China, Japan, and Korea : before and after the financial crisis
Kuroiwa, Ikuo; Ozeki, Hiromichi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2010
East Asian economies have been heavily dependent on the U.S. and EU markets, especially for the export of final goods. Therefore, once the financial crisis hit Western economies hard, the East Asian economies lost their major markets.Their production networks then worked to the region's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564653
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Shock Transmission Mechanism of the Economic Crisis in East Asia : An Application of International Input-Output Analysis
Kuroiwa, Ikuo; Kuwamori, Hiroshi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2010
This paper investigates the impacts of the 2008 economic crisis on industries in East Asia. By using the updated Asian international input-output table for 2008, the paper attempts to identify the transmission mechanism and the magnitude of impact of the crisis on industries in East Asia. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615349
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Myopic or farsighted : bilateral trade agreements among three symmetric countries
Tsubota, Kenmei; Kawasaki, Yujiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
We examine network formation via bilateral trade agreement (BTA) among three symmetric countries. Each government decides whether to form a link or not via a BTA depending on the differential of ex-post and ex-ante sum of real wages in the country. We model the governmental decision in two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008800467
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Trade, Exchange Rates, and Macroeconomic Dynamics in East Asia: Why the Electronics Cycle Matters
Kumakura, Masanaga - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2005
Against the background of increasing regional trade and investment, there is growing interest in monetary and macroeconomic policy coordination in East Asia. Although there is a sizable literature on macroeconomic linkages among East Asian countries and the potential merit of policy coordination...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005227597
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The Role of Distance in Determining International Transport Costs: Evidence from Philippine Import Data
Kuwamori, Hiroshi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2006
This paper presents an empirical investigation of the appropriateness of distance as a determinant of international … transport costs by using Philippine import data. This study addresses three specific questions. First, does distance really … matter in the determination of transport costs? Second, if distance is a significant factor, what is the magnitude of its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005227592
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Production networks in the Asia-Pacific region : facts and policy implications
Hiratsuka, Daisuke - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
Production networks have been extensively developed in the Asia-Pacific region. This paper employs two micro-level approaches, case studies and econometric analysis, using JETRO's firm surveys which investigate Japanese affiliates operating in Southeast Asia. These two approaches found that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365994
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365995
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A New Measurement for International Fragmentation of the Production Process: An International Input-Output Approach
Inomata, Satoshi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008
The paper investigates the possibility of constructing a new measurement for analysing international fragmentation of the production process. It asserts that the current usage of relevant data, whether the trade shares of parts and components or the index of Vertical Specialisation, is quite...
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