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Revealed comparative advantages in the services trade of the United States, the European Union and Japan : what do they tell us?.
Langhammer, Rolf J. - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2004
The paper argues that measuring revealed comparative advantages (RCA) in international trade in services cannot be straightforwardly compared to RCA in trade in goods. The essential difference is that services are internationally exchanged not only by cross-border trade mainly subject to...
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Promoting institutional connectivity in the Asia Pacific region : a study of supply chain and trade in services
Ishido, Hikari - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
This paper analyzes "institutional connectivity", or the degree of seamless trade in services centering on the distribution sector. Foreign equity participation in mode 3 (commercial presence) of trade in services and business firms’ investment performance has been studied closely. Net...
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Industrial Networks between China and the Countries of the Asia-Pacific Region
Kuwamori, Hiroshi; Okamoto, Nobuhiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2007
textiles and electronics, on China’s industries, though industries in Japan and the United States remain important as the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005222510
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The role of Japan in the international economy: a private view
Morishima, Michio - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1986
In earlier times economists used to view the world in terms of dual economic models. For Marx the Asiatic mode of production(1) was the concept which was the counterpart of the Western feudalism from which the capitalist regime and bourgeois society emerged: Weber regarded the Confucian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071364
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Grenzen der Spezialisierung grenzüberschreitender Gesundheitsversorgung im Rahmen des Heckscher-Ohlin Modells
Lukas, Daniel; Werblow, Andreas - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2010
Die Theorie der Außenwirtschaft postuliert eine Effizienzsteigerung durch Spezialisierung, wenn freier Handel zwischen ehemals autarken Ländern möglich wird. Dieses Papier wendet das Heckscher-Ohlin Modell auf dieses Problemfeld an und analysiert die Fähigkeit der Spezialisierung im...
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Japan’s Education Services Imports: Branch Campus or Subsidiary Campus?
Hamanaka, Shintaro - Office of Regional Economic Integration, Asian … - 2012
. In the case of Japan, foreign universities are/were free to open campuses in Japan to supply tertiary education services … Japan established by foreign universities to supply formal education services in Japan, they are required to satisfy the … Japan actually obtained a formal school status. Moreover, program at the campuses in Japan were not regarded as an …
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Health tourism on the rise? Evidence from the Balance of Payments Statistics
Loh, Chung-Ping - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 15 (2014) 7, pp. 759-766
The study assesses the presence and magnitude of global trends in health tourism using health-related travel (HRT) spending reported in the International Monetary Fund’s Balance of Payments Statistics database. Linear regression and quantile regression are applied to estimate secular trends of...
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Determinants of Comparative Advantage in Services
Marel, Erik van der - FIW - 2012
This paper analyzes whether and to what extent determinants of comparative advantage have explanatory power for conventional services trade. It assesses the geographical, Heckscher-Ohlin and institutional determinants of services trade based on the literature for goods trade. Moreover, this...
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Recent Trends in the EU Trade in Goods
Oehler-Sincai, Iulia Monica - In: Revista de Economie Mondiala / The Journal of Global … 1 (2009) 2
The purpose of the present paper is to gauge the main trends in the evolution and structure of the EU trade in goods, mainly after 2004, starting from a quantitative analysis and comparing trends in the trade in goods with trends in the trade in services, where necessary. We focus on the trade...
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Towards a plurilateral Trade in Services Agreement (TISA): Challenges and prospects
Sauvé, Pierre - In: Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy … 05 (2014) 01, pp. 1440006-1
This paper addresses a number of policy challenges arising from ongoing attempts to negotiate a plurilateral Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), a recently launched plurilateral negotiating initiative coexisting uneasily alongside the World Trade Organisation's General Agreement on Trade in...
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