This paper investigates the causes underlying the tragic story of Korea's bicycle industry from what appeared to be as competitive as Taiwan's up until the 1970s to its complete dissolution and collapse. Whereas Taiwan went on to overtake Japan as the world's number one bicycle exporter by 1980,...

In this research, we investigate the determinants of international trade, employing a dataset of bilateral trade and economics characteristics in the ASEAN+3 countries. We include a large number of independent variables that potentially drive international trade. We also use various standard...