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International Competitiveness of Manufacturing Firms in sub-Saharan Africa

Fukunishi, Takahiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2004

. Although results should be considered tentative, high labour cost beyond endowment and conservative investment behavior emerge …

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R&D and productivity in high-tech manufacturing: a comparison between Italy and Spain

Sterlacchini, Alessandro; Venturini, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Using data for twelve manufacturing industries over the period 1980-2006, we perform for Italy and Spain a dynamic panel estimation of the long-run elasticity of TFP with respect to R&D capital. The results show that in Spain high-tech industries have experienced a similar or slightly higher R&D...

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Knowledge in cities

Gabe, Todd; Abel, Jaison R.; Ross, Adrienne; Stolarick, … - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2010

This study identifies clusters of U.S. and Canadian metropolitan areas with similar knowledge traits. These groups—ranging from Making Regions, characterized by knowledge about manufacturing, to Thinking Regions, noted for knowledge about the arts, humanities, information technology, and...

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Structural change in an open economy

Uy, Timothy; Yi, Kei-Mu; Zhang, Jing - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2013

We study the importance of international trade in structural change. Our framework has both productivity and trade cost shocks, and allows for non-unitary income and substitution elasticities. We calibrate our model to investigate South Korea's structural change between 1971 and 2005. We find...

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Do electricity supply constraints matter for comparative advantage? : a neoclassical approach

Sato, Hitoshi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014

This paper examines the extent to which electricity supply constraints could affect sectoral specialization. For this purpose, an empirical trade model is estimated from 1990-2008 panel data on 15 OECD countries and 12 manufacturing sectors. We find that along with Ricardian technological...

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The policy impact of product-related environmental regulations in Asia

Michida, Etsuyo - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014

This paper focuses on EU chemical regulations, RoHS and REACH, and shows these EU regulations have driven Asian countries to introduce regulations that are similar yet modified versions to the EU regulations. Asia as the world manufacturing center has extensive production networks where parts...

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Role of laboratories for adapting product-related environmental regulations (PRERs)

Chen, Sau Soon; Helan, Mohd Helme bin Mohd; Ujang, Zanariah - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014

This paper examines how a country which has been successful in creating agglomeration of a manufacturing industry has faced various types of product-related environmental regulations. Then the paper shows how the government and testing laboratory have taken measures to adapt to PRERs overseas in...

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Regional economy and manufacturing update

Dudley, William - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2010

Remarks at the Quarterly Regional Economic Press Briefing, New York City.

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The national and regional economic outlook

Dudley, William C. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2012

Remarks at the Buffalo-Niagara Partnership, Buffalo, New York .

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Did Japanese direct investment in Korea suppress indigenous industrialization in the 1930s? : evidence from country-level factory entry patterns

Arimoto, Yutaka; Lee, Changmin - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014

Foreign direct investment (FDI) can deliver both positive and negative spillovers to the local economy. Negative … foreign and local firms is significant. This paper examines the impact of Japanese direct investment into Korea under … Japanese factories. Positive correlations are also found between subsectors. The results imply that Japanese direct investment …

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