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Financial Versus Monetary Mercantilism-Long-Run View of Large International Reserves Hoarding
Aizenman, Joshua - 2007
The sizable hoarding of international reserves by several East Asian countries has been frequently attributed to a modern version of monetary mercantilism -- hoarding international reserves in order to improve competitiveness. From a long-run perspective, manufacturing exporters in East Asia...
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Are Commodity Futures Prices Barometers of the Global Economy?
Hu, Conghui - 2013
prices of East Asian economies including China, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. We find significant and positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071915
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Going Soft : How the Rise of Software Based Innovation Led to the Decline of Japan's it Industry and the Resurgence of Silicon Valley
Arora, Ashish - 2014
differential effects on the performance of the IT industries in the United States and Japan. Using a broad unbalanced panel of US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069641
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Market Access and International Competition : a Simulation Study of 16k Random Access Memories
Baldwin, Richard E.; Krugman, Paul R. - 2021
ask the following question: how much did the apparent closure of the Japanese market to imports affect Japan's export … otherwise have been uncompetitive both at home and abroad. We find, however, that Japan's home market protection nonetheless … produced more costs than benefits for Japan …
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Implementing Results-Oriented Trade Policies : The Case of the Us-Japanese Auto Parts Dispute
Krishna, Kala; Morgan, John - 2022
Why would the US threaten punitive tariffs on luxury autos to implement a market share target in auto parts? We show that by making threats to a linked market, a market share may be implemented with fairly weak informa- tional and administrative requirements. Moreover, such policies can be both...
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Trade Politics and the Semiconductor Industry
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2021
Department) brought about a 1986 trade agreement in which the United States forced Japan to end the 'dumping' of semiconductors … 'affirmative action' for the industry in its efforts to sell more in Japan, but has been criticized as constituting 'export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310555
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Climate Policy Under Cooperation and Competition between Regions with Spatial Heat Transport
Cai, Yongyang - 2018
We build a novel stochastic dynamic regional integrated assessment model (IAM) of the climate and economic system including a number of important climate science elements that are missing in most IAMs. These elements are spatial heat transport from the Equator to the Poles, sea level rise,...
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The New Systems Competition
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2021
While the old systems competition took place with closed borders, globalisation has brought about a new type of systems competition that is driven by the mobility of factors of production. The new systems competition will likely imply the erosion of the European welfare state, induce a race to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226159
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Ethnic Chinese Networks in International Trade
Rauch, James E. - 2011
Ethnic Chinese networks, as proxied by the product of ethnic Chinese population shares, are found in 1980 and 1990 to have increased bilateral trade both within Southeast Asia and for other country pairs. Their effects within Southeast Asia are much greater for differentiated than for...
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Lessons from the East Asian Nics : A Contrarian View
Young, Alwyn - 2021
The unusually rapid and prolonged growth of both output and exports in the Newly Industralizing Countries of East Asia has led many economists to believe that productivity growth in these economies, particularly in their manufacturing sectors, has been extraordinarily high. This view has, in...
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