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How much do free trade agreements reduce impediments to trade?
Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Kimura, Fukunari - In: Open economies review 26 (2015) 4, pp. 711-729
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Impact of free trade agreement use on import prices
Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Nuttawut Laksanapanyakul; Mukunoki, … - In: The World Bank economic review : WBER 33 (2019) 3, pp. 643-660
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Who uses free trade agreements?
Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Hiratsuka, Daisuke; Shiino, Kohei; … - In: Asian economic journal : journal of the East Asian … 27 (2013) 3, pp. 245-264
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How serious is the omission of bilateral tariff rates in gravity?
Hayakawa, Kazunobu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
In this paper, using the worldwide dataset of bilateral tariff rates, we explore how serious the omission of bilateral tariff rates in gravity is. Our findings are as follow. Firstly, the omission of bilateral tariff rates seems not to be so serious in terms of omitted-variable biases because...
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How serious is the omission of bilateral tariff rates in gravity?
Hayakawa, Kazunobu - In: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 27 (2013) C, pp. 81-94
This paper presents a constructed dataset of worldwide bilateral tariff rates to explore the seriousness of omitting bilateral tariff rates from gravity equations. Results indicate, first, that omitting bilateral tariff rates presents no serious issue related to the omitted variable bias because...
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FTA utilization : certificate of origin data versus customs data
Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Kim, HanSung; Nuttawut, Laksanapanyakul - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
This paper empirically examines what kinds of elements affect the gap in free trade agreement (FTA) utilization with regard to customs data and certificates of origin (CoOs) data. We focus on Thai exports to Korea under the ASEAN-Korea FTA in 2011. As a result, we found that the products with...
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FTA in international finance : impacts of exchange rates on FTA utilization
Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Kim, HanSung; Yoshimi, Taiyo - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
This paper investigates how exchange rates affect the utilization of a free trade agreement (FTA) scheme in trading. Changes in exchange rates affect FTA utilization by two ways. The first way is by changing the excess profits gained by utilizing the FTA scheme, and the second way is by...
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Impacts of common rules of origin on FTA utilization
Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Nuttawut, Laksanapanyakul - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
the harmonization of RoOs across FTAs play some role in reducing the costs yielded through the spaghetti bowl phenomenon …. In particular, the harmonization to "change-in-tariff classification (CTC) or real value-added content (RVC)" will play a … relatively positive role in not seriously discouraging firms’ use of multiple FTA schemes. On the other hand, the harmonization …
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Measuring the costs of FTA utilization : evidence from transaction-level import data of Thailand
Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Nuttawut Laksanapanyakul; Urata, … - 2015
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FTA in international finance : impacts of exchange rates on FTA utilization
Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Kim, HanSung; Yoshimi, Taiyo - 2015
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