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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 …

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Is Japan Creating a Yen Bloc in East Asia and the Pacific?

Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2021

This paper reaches seven conclusions regarding the Yen Bloc that Japan is reputed to be forming in Pacific Asia. (1 … is no evidence of a special Japan effect. (3) Once one properly accounts for rapid growth in Asia, the statistics do not … Asian countries, though overall its influence is as yet no greater than that of New York. (6) Some of Japan's financial and …

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Affiliates of U.S. And Japanese Multinationals in East Asian Production and Trade

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2021

Since 1977, and in some cases starting before that, most East Asian countries' export patterns in manufacturing have been transformed from industry distributions typical of developing countries to distributions more like those of advanced countries. The process of change in most cases started...

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Exports and Manufacturing Productivity in East Asia : A Comparative Analysis with Firm-Level Data

Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Iarossi, Giuseppe; Sokoloff, … - 2021

This paper uses new firm level data from five East Asian countries to explore the patterns of manufacturing productivity across the region. One of the striking patterns that emerges is how the extent of openness and the competitiveness of markets affects the relative productivity of firms across...

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East Asian Financial and Economic Development

Morck, Randall - 2017

Japan, an isolated, backward country in the 1860s, industrialized rapidly to become a major industrial power by the …

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Do Low-Income Countries Have a High-Wage Option?

Rodrik, Dani - 2010

Poor countries must specialize in standardized. labor-intensive commodities. Middle income countries may have a richer menu of options available to them if their labor force is reasonably well-educated and skilled. This paper is motivated by the possibility that there may exist multiple...

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Openness, Specialization, and Productivity Growth in Less Developed Countries

Weinhold, Diana - 2012

Many empirical studies have found a positive relationship between openness and growth in per capita GDP in less developed countries, and economists have produced many explanations for this correlation. However, the existing studies are consistent with all of these theories and thus do not...

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Tracing Value-Added and Double Counting in Gross Exports

Koopman, Robert - 2012

This paper proposes a framework for gross exports accounting that breaks up a country's gross exports into various value-added components by source and additional double counted terms. By identifying which parts of the official trade data are double counted and the sources of the double...

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Value-Added Exchange Rates

Bems, Rudolfs - 2012

This paper updates the conceptual foundations for measuring real effective exchange rates (REERs) to allow for vertical specialization in trade. We derive a value-added REER describing how demand for the value added that a country produces changes as the price of its value added changes relative...

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Trade and Industrialisation after Globalisation's 2nd Unbundling : How Building and Joining a Supply Chain are Different and Why it Matters

Baldwin, Richard - 2013

Revolutionary transformations of industry and trade occurred from 1985 to the late-1990s - the regionalisation of supply chains. Before 1985, successful industrialisation meant building a domestic supply chain. Today, industrialisers join supply chains and grow rapidly because offshored...

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