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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232143
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947025
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Prospects for Nuclear Power
Davis, Lucas W. - 2011
The prospects for a revival of nuclear power were dim even before the partial reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant. Nuclear power has long been controversial because of concerns about nuclear accidents, proliferation risk, and the storage of spent fuel. These concerns are real and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117387
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The Private and External Costs of Germany's Nuclear Phase-Out
Jarvis, Stephen - 2019
Many countries have phased out nuclear electricity production in response to concerns about nuclear waste and the risk of nuclear accidents. This paper examines the impact of the shutdown of roughly half of the nuclear production capacity in Germany after the Fukushima accident in 2011. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857668
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Current Account Sustainability : Selected East Asian and Latin American Experiences
Milesi-Ferretti, Gian Maria; Razin, Assaf - 2021
A number of developing countries have run large and persistent current account deficits in both the late seventies/early eighties and in the early nineties, raising the issue of whether these persistent imbalances are sustainable. This paper puts forward a notion of current account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230779
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218103
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224859
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The Economic Burden of Chronic Diseases : Estimates and Projections for China, Japan, and South Korea
Bloom, David E. - 2017
China, Japan, and South Korea, and estimate the economic burden of chronic conditions in five domains (cardiovascular … 2010), $5.7 trillion for Japan, and $1.5 trillion for South Korea. Our results also highlight the limits of cost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951354
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Relative Returns on Equities in Pacific Basin Countries
Engel, Charles M. - 2010
We examine the factors that determine the differences in ex ante returns on equities in eleven Pacific Basin countries. Our concern is whether real return differentials are primarily caused by nominal return differentials or expected changes in real exchange rates. We find that nominal return...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763463