Production networks and the regional division of labor have been established in East Asia resulting in massive vertical intra-industry trade in parts and components within the region. This phenomenon is known as cross-border production sharing or the fragmentation of production processes into...

Chapter 1 Introduction - Serendipity of Low Carbon Energy System and the Scope of Regional Cooperation -- Chapter 2 Low carbon energy systems in China - Visioning Regional cooperation through one belt one Road -- Chapter 3 A multi-level Experience of designing low-carbon energy systems in India...

1. Introduction / Yanrui Wu, Fukunari Kimura and Xunpeng Shi -- 2. The status and prospects of energy market integration in East Asia / Xunpeng Shi and Fukunari Kimura -- 3. A regional public goods approach towards energy market integration in East Asia / Philip Andrews-Speed -- 4. Energy market...

In order to better capture the close relationship between firms' cross-border trading activities and the sales and purchasing activities of their foreign affiliates, this paper proposes supplementary accounting formats that classify cross-border and foreign affiliate activities on an ownership...

This paper conducts a Cox-type survival analysis of Japanese corporate firms using census-coverage data collected by METI. A study of exiting firms confirmed several characteristics of Japanese firms in the 1990s. First, excessive internalization in the corporate structure and activities is...

This paper applies the nationality-adjusted net sales and value added framework proposed in Baldwin and Kimura (1996) to Japan. Despite possibly large estimation errors due to statistical deficiencies, the framework is very useful for analyzing the relationship of the Japanese economy to the...