This policy brief examines the brief histroical food crisis, the impact of rice on economy, periodic issues surrounding East Asia, and the scope of regional cooperation in regards to the food crisis. To avoid rice industry from collapsing, avoid sudden restrictions on international trade, which...

This paper argues that a variety of firm specificity supported by sophisticated inter-firm relationships is essential for understanding the mechanics and spatial structure of international production/distribution networks in East Asia. By mapping the two-dimensional fragmentation framework...

Although the impact of financial crisis originated from North America and Europe has come to East Asia through both the financial link and the real economy link, the East Asian countries have so far largely responded to it calmly and cautiously. There are now a lot of reasons wy we should invets...

This paper extensively reviews empirical studies that analyze the various impacts of the globalization phenomenon on corporate activities by using micro data. First, we set up a flow chart describing how globalization leads to national productivity enhancement. Secondly, we summarize the...

Although East Asia experiences splendid economic growth with the development of international production networks, remaining development gaps across countries and regions are still large. This paper compares regions within China and countries in ASEAN in terms of the degree of participation in...

This paper intensively employs annual international trade statistics obtained from the UN Comtrade and examines to what degree East Asian countries have participated in global production networks in comparison with countries in other regions and whether East Asia’s intra-regional trade in...

Energy Market Integration (EMI) in East Asia has been implemented in the past decade with the emergence of cooperation between ASEAN and its dialogue partners. ASEAN is working towards a single market by 2015, under the guideline of AEC (Bali Concord II, 2003). Considerable progress in the EMI...

This paper investigates the developing pattern of machinery trade and the extent and depth of production networks in North America from the perspective of their links with East Asia in the last two decades. Our descriptive analysis based on the total value of trade and the extensive margin...

This paper examines the true meaning of the key word of ASEAN economic integration “single market and production base.” Heading for “single market” is a right direction to go, but “single market” cannot literally be achieved with two-dimensional development gaps: geographical and...

Since the formation of the East Asian Summit (EAS) in 2005, Energy Market Integration (EMI) in East Asia has become one of the initiatives endorsed and actively promoted by EAS governments. Electricity market integration in East Asia is an important component of EMI. It is argued that an...