This paper investigates regional differences within China in the degree of participation in East Asia's production and distribution networks in machinery industries. By employing customs-based export data, large regional disparity in the pattern of machinery exports as well as a hint of...

Introduction, Lurong Chen and Fukunari Kimura 1. IPR Protection and Global Value Chains in the Digital Era: With Policy Implications for ASEAN Development, Lurong Chen and Fukunari Kimura 2. IPR Protection for Asian Development: Opportunities and Challenges from Global Value Chains and the...

Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Part I Understanding e-commerce; Introduction: ASEAN development in the digital economy; 1 E-commerce and international trade; Part II Rules and regulations; 2 Cross-border...

The trade-investment-service-intellectual property (IP) nexus remains at the heart of economic development and the main features of which are global value chains (GVCs) and digitalisation. The protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) has become a critical issue not only for advanced...

1. Introduction / Yanrui Wu, Fukunari Kimura and Xunpeng Shi -- 2. The status and prospects of energy market integration in East Asia / Xunpeng Shi and Fukunari Kimura -- 3. A regional public goods approach towards energy market integration in East Asia / Philip Andrews-Speed -- 4. Energy market...

ch. 1. Selected issues in Strengthening social protection in East Asia : an overview / Mukul G. Asher and Fukunari Kimura -- ch. 2. Managing pension and healthcare costs in rapidly aging depopulating countries : the case of Japan / Noriyuki Takayama -- ch. 3. Managing pension and healthcare...

This paper empirically investigates two areas of changes in firm behavior and performance at home before and after investing abroad. The first is the type of foreign direct investment (FDI): horizontal FDI or vertical FDI. The second is the firm's domestic activities of interest: production...