Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia
Global Value Chain Participation and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labour in East Asia
14 February 2020
Global value chains (GVCs) may have distributional consequences for the relative demand for skilled labour. This study relates GVC participation to the share of skilled … Read More
Policies and Financing Strategies for Low-Carbon Energy Transition: Overcoming Barriers to Private Financial Institutions
14 February 2020
Placing Asian economies on a low-carbon path requires an unprecedented shift in private investment and new financing models. A growing community of investors is seeking … Read More
The Effects of the Temporary Protection on Firm Performances: Evidence from the Steel Industry in Viet Nam
13 February 2020
Trade protection may have significant impacts on sectors other than those targeted by protection policies, especially when the target sector produces goods that are essential … Read More
Learning-to-Export Effect as a Response to Export Opportunities: Micro-Evidence from Korean Manufacturing
11 February 2020
This paper aims to investigate whether empirical evidence supports the learning-to-export hypothesis, which has received little attention in the previous literature. By taking full advantage … Read More
Production Dynamics in Multi-Product Firms’ Exporting
11 February 2020
To create room for production capacity for exported products, new exporters may decrease either the production of exported products or of other products for the … Read More
Foreign Direct Investment and Labour Market Dynamics in a Developing Country: Evidence from Indonesian Plant-Level Data
10 February 2020
This study examines the impact of inward foreign direct investment on the wages and employment of skilled and unskilled workers in Indonesian manufacturing plants. Entry … Read More
Input Allocation Behaviour on Tariff Changes: The Case of Indonesia’s Manufacturing Industries
10 February 2020
Can firms reallocate their imported inputs to domestic sources when faced with import tariffs? To answer this question, we analyse the input allocation behaviour of … Read More
Effectiveness of Industrial Policy on Firms’ Productivity: Evidence from Thai Manufacturing
06 February 2020
This paper examines the role of industrial policy on firms’ productivity, using 3 years of panel data on Thai manufacturing as a case study. A … Read More
Exports and Innovation: Evidence from Antidumping Duties Against Japanese Firms
06 February 2020
By conducting a difference-in-difference analysis, we examine how the targeted exporters adjust their innovative activities in the face of the negative export shock inflicted by … Read More
Determinants of Product Sophistication in Viet Nam: Findings from the Firm– Multi-Product Level Microdata Approach
05 February 2020
Through capitalising data from the Viet Nam Enterprise Survey and applying the methods proposed by Hausmann, Hwang, and Rodrik (2007) and Eck and Huber (2016), … Read More
Does Home (Output) Import Tariff Reduction Increase Home Exports? Evidence from Korean Manufacturing Plant–Product Data
05 February 2020
This study examines the effects of domestic output import tariff reduction on domestic plant export dynamics and clarifies the underlying mechanism, using rich plant–product data … Read More
Energy Demand and Supply of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar 2010-2017
04 February 2020
This report on the Energy Demand and Supply for Myanmar in 2010–2017 was prepared as an update of the Myanmar Energy Statistics 2017 publication, which … Read More
