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A Veteran's Asia Reflections
Walter, Norbert - eSocialSciences - 2011
, the security challenges for the Hindukush region and new political forces in Thailand and Malaysia. Besides presenting a …
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Location choice in low-income countries : evidence from Japanese investments in East Asia
Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Tsubota, Kenmei - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
Unlike most existing studies, this paper examines the location choices of MNEs in developing countries. Specifically, we investigate the location choices of Japanese MNEs among East Asian developing countries by estimating a four-stage nested logit model at the province level. Noteworthy results...
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Selection of stock markets: a factor analysis approach
Hui, Tak Kee; Tsui, Kai Chong; Chua, David - In: International Journal of Applied Management Science 2 (2010) 2, pp. 136-151
This study uses factor analysis to simplify the complex relationships among stock markets and to reduce the number of markets required for portfolio construction. Our sample consists of the US and 11 Asia-Pacific stock markets. We find that the reduced portfolio obtained from factor analysis has...
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The emerging production networks in Mekong region
Taguchi, Hiroyuki; Matsushima, Daisuke; Hayakawa, Kazunobu - In: International Journal of Trade and Global Markets 7 (2014) 1, pp. 18-35
-Mekong trade of machinery parts and components, especially in the growth of their two-way trade between Thailand and Vietnam … sales trends between industrial estates in Thailand and Vietnam. …
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Shifts in Production in East Asia
Berger-Thomson, Laura; Doyle, Mary-Alice - In: RBA Bulletin (2013) June, pp. 29-38
Over the past few decades, manufacturing production has shifted from the higher to the lower income economies in east Asia. This article uses input-output analysis to explore how total value added in manufacturing has shifted around the region. It finds that for most economies, the domestic...
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Firm-level impacts of natural disasters on production networks : evidence from a flood in Thailand
Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Matsuura, Toshiyuki; Okubo, Fumihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
In this paper, we explore the firm-level impacts of flooding in Thailand in 2011, specifically those on the procurement … patterns at Japanese affiliates in Thailand. Our findings are as follow. First, the damaged small firms are more likely to … lower their local procurement share, particularly the share of procurement from other Japanese-owned firms in Thailand …
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International production networks: the automobile industry in East Asia
Abdul-Aziz, Shahrun Nizam; Allanson, Paul; Petrie, Dennis - In: International Journal of Trade and Global Markets 6 (2013) 4, pp. 356-373
auto P%C. Thailand's role changed dramatically from an importer to an exporter of auto P%C and FG. Japan played a major … exported P%C to Thailand. Korea has followed in Japan's footsteps but with a focus on the industry's development in Vietnam and …
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Climate Change, Trade, and Competitiveness: Climate Trade Performance of India, SAARC and Asia Pacific Region
Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper examines trade performance of climate friendly goods using some trade indices for India and other Asian countries during 2002 - 2008. Climate friendly goods (CFG) are those goods which have less harmful to environment. Paper identifies India’s performance in CFG trade with other...
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Trade Facilitation in Asia and the Pacific: An Analysis of Import and Export Processes, Studies in Trade and Investment 71
ESCAP, United Nations - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific …
This book is a synthesis of the results and implications from a series of product-specific import and export process analyses conducted in selected Asian countries. It provides a unique set of micro-level information on the nature, as well as the time and cost, of trade procedures involved in...
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Learning style differences between Japan and Thailand: A case of Japanese multinationals
Yamazaki, Yoshitaka; Attrapreyangkul, Thitiwat - Graduate School of International Relations, … - 2011
We compared various aspects of learning styles between Japan and Thailand through the lens of experiential learning …
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