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Myanmar's apparel industry in the new international environment : prospects and challenges
Kudo, Toshihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
Myanmar’s apparel industry had long been denied access to Western markets due to sanctions against its military government. The birth of a "civilian" government in March 2011 improved Myanmar’s relations with the international community, and Western sanctions were largely lifted....
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Tracing CO2 emissions in global value chains
Meng, Bo; Peters, Glen; Wang, Zhi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
This paper integrates two lines of research into a unified conceptual framework: trade in global value chains and embodied emissions. This allows both value added and emissions to be systematically traced at the country, sector, and bilateral levels through various production network routes. By...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167317
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The Shrimp Export Boom and Small-Scale Fishermen in Myanmar
Okamoto, Ikuko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008
This paper examines the impact of the recent shrimp export boom in Myanmar on the economic state of small …-scale fishermen. Results indicate that there has been an active increase in shrimp fishing stimulated by expanding export demand. With …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005222504
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Managerial Incentives and Compensation in a Global Market
Wu, Yanhui - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
This paper embeds a principal-agent firm in an otherwise standard trade model a la Melitz (2003) to investigate the impact of globalization on the provision of managerial incentives and on the distribution of managerial compensation. Facing contractual frictions due to limited liability, firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220234
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757628
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Trade and Uncertainty
Novy, Dennis; Taylor, Alan M. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
We offer a new explanation as to why international trade is so volatile in response to economic shocks. Our approach combines the uncertainty shock idea of Bloom (2009) with a model of international trade, extending the idea to the open economy. Firms import intermediate inputs from home or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775215
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An export strategy and technology networks in the Republic of Korea
Mizuno, Junko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
In Korea, trade with Japan has had a deficit since the normalization of Japan-Korea diplomatic relations in 1965. Korea’s trade balance with Japan has remained in deficit since then, although Korean companies have become bigger compared to Japanese companies. My hypothesis is that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134412
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Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Selection: Why and How Heterogeneity Matters
Nocco, Antonella; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Salto, Matteo - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
After some decades of relative oblivion, the interest in the optimality properties of monopolistic competition has recently re-emerged due to the availability of an appropriate and parsimonious framework to deal with firm heterogeneity. Within this framework we show that non-separable utility,...
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Heterogeneous Firms and Trade
Melitz, Marc J.; Redding, Stephen J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
This paper reviews the new approach to international trade based on firm heterogeneity in differentiated product markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity of exporters relative to non-exporters, within-industry...
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On the variety of Mexico's export goods
Ito, Tadashi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
This paper examines the evolution of the variety of Mexico’s export goods using disaggregated trade data. Both the …) methodology proposed in this paper show that NAFTA membership does not enhance the variety of Mexico's export goods. This finding … contrasts with NAFTA's positive association with the increase in export variety found in the literature. …
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