Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia
Industry and Manufacturing
ERIA examines various parts of industry and manufacturing starting from small and medium enterprises to multinational corporations and from intra-industry to international inter-industry connection. By using case studies from various industries in many countries, the researchers analyse industrial development and transformation, public-private partnership, production and logistic networks, technology transfer and spillover, industry sustainability, and industry integrations.
The Garment Industry in Laos: Technological Capabilities, Global Production Chains and Competitiveness
24 February 2015
This article examines the relationship between institutional support and regional production linkages, and technological capabilities and firm performance in the garment industry in … Read More
China's Semiconductor Industry in Global Value Chains
24 February 2015
This article examines how global production networks have benefited technological upgrading in the semiconductor industry in China. The evidence shows that trade has … Read More
Multinationals, Technology and Regional Linkages in Myanmar's Clothing Industry
24 February 2015
Myanmar's clothing industry has played a pivotal role in generating employment and exports. This article makes a contribution to the explication of the … Read More
Intra-industry Trade, Product Fragmentation and Technological Capability Development in Thai Automotive Industry
23 February 2015
Thailand's automotive industry has evolved from a small import-substituting industry to a vibrant exporting one. It has contributed significantly and increasingly to the … Read More
The Transformation of the Clothing Industry in China
23 February 2015
This article examines the transformation of clothing manufacturing in China with a focus on institutional support, technological upgrading and global production chains. The … Read More
Host-site Institutions, Regional Production Linkages and Technological Upgrading: A Study of Automotive Firms in Vietnam
23 February 2015
Using technological capabilities that take account of technology embodied in machinery, organization, processes and products, this article examines its link with host-site institutions … Read More
Industrial Upgrading in Global Production Networks: The Case of the Chinese Automotive Industry
18 February 2015
Abstract This article examines the development of China's automotive industry. The evidence shows that integration in global production networks has stimulated upgrading of technological capabilities … Read More
Host-site Support, Foreign Ownership, Regional Linkages and Technological Capabilities: Evidence from Automotive Firms in Indonesia
18 February 2015
This study analyses the influence of host-site institutional support, foreign ownership and regional production linkages on firm-level technological capabilities using data from automotive … Read More
Auto and Car Parts Production: Can the Philippines Catch Up with Asia?
18 February 2015
Abstract The Philippines pioneered the establishment of automotive assembly in Southeast Asia in the 1950s. But Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia lead the region since the … Read More
Impact of Free Trade Agreements on Trade in East Asia
09 January 2015
Abstract The number of bilateral and plurilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) in East Asia has increased rapidly after the 2000s behind the world trend … Read More
Automobile and Auto Components Industries in ASEAN: Current State and Issues
19 November 2014
The ASEAN region is going through a time of changes. Concretely, efforts towards the realisation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) 2015 are … Read More
How Restrictive are ASEAN's RoO?
12 September 2014
This paper uses a disaggregated (product-level) gravity approach to estimate the effect of ASEAN's product-specific rules of origin (RoO) on regional trade, using … Read More
Stimulating Innovation in ASEAN Institutional Support, R&D Activity and Intellectual Property Rights
20 August 2014
The Policy Brief suggests initiatives that poorer ASEAN member governments should take to stimulate technological upgrading of firms at the bottom with a … Read More
Import Penetration, Export Orientation, and Plant Size in Indonesian Manufacturing
07 July 2014
This paper empirically examines differential impacts of globalisation on plant size among plants with different characteristics, including initial plant size, import and export … Read More
ASEAN Rising: ASEAN and AEC Beyond 2015
30 June 2014
ASEAN RISING: ASEAN and AEC Beyond 2015 puts together ideas, thoughts and papers from more than 30 experts and specialists in the region … Read More
The ASEAN Single Aviation Market: Liberalizing the Airline Industry
18 June 2014
Abstract This Policy Brief presents an overview of the barriers facing air transport liberalization in ASEAN. It lays out the policies that governments should undertake … Read More
Towards Freer Movement of Skilled Labour in AEC 2015 and Beyond
23 May 2014
Abstract Movements of skilled labour in ASEAN have been largely from the lower income labour surplus economies to the higher income labour deficit economies in … Read More
Productivity Evolution of Chinese Large and Small Firms in the Era of Globalisation
20 May 2014
Abstract Using a large firm-level dataset from the Chinese manufacturing industry, this paper studies the productivity gap and productivity convergence between large and small firms … Read More
Offshoring and the Shortening of the Quality Ladder: Evidence from Danish Apparel
12 May 2014
Recently a small and growing empirical literature has attempted to analyze the role that quality plays in our understanding of trade. In particular, … Read More
Firm-level Evidence on Productivity Differentials and Turnover in Vietnamese Manufacturing
21 April 2014
This paper examines the relationship between productivity differentials and firm turnover in Vietnamese manufacturing. We utilize firm-level data between 2000 and 2009, including … Read More
