Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia
The Next Generation Automobile Industry as a Creative Industry
24 June 2019
The aim of this paper is to describe the recent transformation of the automobile industry from a manufacturing industry to include aspects of the service … Read More
Cool Japan, Creative Industries, and Diversity
14 June 2019
This paper critically considers the operation and objective of Japan’s ‘creative industry’ policy and suggests how to redesign it to align it with recent attention … Read More
Exporter Dynamics and Productivity Dispersion within Industry
29 March 2019
This paper uses firm-level panel data for Japan to examine between-firm productivity dispersion, and explore whether export market entry improves productivity and accelerates productivity catch-up … Read More
Product Innovation, Exporting, and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence from China
27 March 2019
This paper explores the inter-connection between domestic firms’ product innovation, exporting, and the presence of foreign direct investment (FDI). We first set up a theoretical … Read More
The Exchange Rate and Exporting: Evidence from the Indonesian Manufacturing Sector
27 March 2019
This paper examines the impact of the exchange rate on export performance using plant- and product-level data for the Indonesian manufacturing sector over the period … Read More
Failure of an Export Promotion Policy? Evidence from Bonded Zones in Indonesia
26 March 2019
This study investigates the impact of the bonded-zone policy on firms’ performance, employment, and extensive and intensive margins of exports, using Indonesia’s medium–large manufacturing establishment … Read More
Entering the Export Market: Do Trade Missions Help?
22 March 2019
In this paper, we investigate the impact of trade missions on export performance. Using the census of participant data of the State of Victoria trade … Read More
Export Dynamics and the Invoicing Currency
20 March 2019
In this paper, using finely disaggregated firm-level export data for Thailand, we examine how firms’ export experience is related to the dynamic choice of the … Read More
Imported Intermediate Inputs and Plants’ Export Dynamics Evidence from Indonesian Plant-product-level Data
19 March 2019
This paper asks the question of whether the use of imported intermediate inputs leads to an expansion of plant-level export scope. Using a panel dataset … Read More
Regulatory Dissimilarity: A First Look at the Newly Collected Non-Tariff Measures Database
15 March 2019
In this paper we construct a dissimilarity indicator to measure the degree to which a product may face different sets of regulations in two countries … Read More
Economic Potential of the Vientiane – Ha Noi Expressway Based on Experience of the Mekong Region
14 March 2019
The Vientiane–Ha Noi Expressway (VHE) will connect the capitals of Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) and Viet Nam, which have established special relations in … Read More
Innovation Process in Public Research Institute: Case Studies of AIST, Fraunhofer, and ITRI
11 March 2019
The design of national innovation systems has attracted attention from scholars and policymakers. Firms, universities, and government organisations (including public research institutes) are defined as … Read More
