This paper investigates systematic linkages among "reverse imports", foreign direct investment, and exchange rates. We have in mind the competition in the Japanese market of a Japanese multinational firm and a Chinese domestic firm. Products are differentiated based on Japanese consumers' brand...

This paper provides an extensive analysis on the Sino-Japanese trade and Japanese direct investment in China. It investigates the trend, the growth and the structure change of the bilateral trade, and examines the scale, the major characteristics of Japanese FDI in China, as well as its...

This paper models the production allocation choices of a multinational enterprise (MNE) in a three-country framework -- a northern country and two southern countries. The products made in the southern countries are of lower quality, and have higher substitutability than those between the south...

This paper examines the impact of the participation of Vietnam to WTO as well as of the abolition of restrictions on Chinese exports of textiles and clothing to the US and EU on the Cambodian Economy, by using a computable general equilibrium model. A seminal aspect of this paper is that this...

This paper examines the FDI and exchange rates nexus in the context of one FDI source and two host countries. It focuses on the effect of exchange rates on the relative FDI inflows between the two host countries. The theoretical analysis shows explicitly that the relative FDI inflows are a...