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.
Capacity Building for Statisticians in Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Myanmar (CLM)
01 March 2010
List of Project Members MR. YASUSHI NAKAMURA (TEAM LEADER): Senior Researcher, Regional Development Institute, International Development Center of Japan (IDCJ), Japan. MS. PIN PIN … Read More
Geographical Simulation Analysis for Logistic Enhancement in East Asia
01 March 2010
List of Project Members Mr. Satoru KUMAGAI: Deputy Director,Economic Integration Studies Group, Inter-disciplinary Studies Center, IDE-JETRO, JAPAN. Dr. Toshitaka GOKAN : Economic Integration Studies … Read More
A Study on Upgrading Industrial Structure of CLMV Countries
01 March 2010
List of Project Members Ruth Banomyong: Director, Centre for Logistics Research, Thammasat University. Masami Ishida : Senior Research Fellow, Bangkok Research Center, IDE-JETRO. … Read More
Fostering Production and Science & Technology Linkages to Stimulate Innovation in ASEAN
01 March 2010
List of Project Members Project Leader Patarapong Intarakumnerd: College of Innovation, Thammasat University, Thailand. Project Member Sunil Mani: Centre for Development Studies, India. … Read More
3R Policies for Southeast and East Asia (FY2009)
01 March 2010
Members Of Working Group Enri Damanhuri (PROJECT LEADER): Professor, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia. Michikazu Kojima (PROJECT COORDINATOR): Director, Environment and Natural Resource Studies … Read More
The Impacts of Face-to-face and Frequent Interactions on Innovation: Upstream-Downstream Relations
04 February 2010
This paper proposes a new mechanism linking innovation and networks in developing economies to identify explicit production and information linkages and investigates the … Read More
Innovation in Linked and Non-linked Firms: Effects of Variety of Linkages in East Asia
03 February 2010
This paper proposes a new mechanism linking innovation and networks in developing economies to detect explicit production and information linkages. It investigates the … Read More
Search-theoretic Approach to Securing New Suppliers: Impacts of Geographic Proximity for Importer and Non-importer
02 February 2010
This paper empirically examines whether firms consider geographic proximity as they seek for a new supplier. While addressing the difference between importers and … Read More
Spatial Architecture of the Production Networks in Southeast Asia
01 February 2010
The main purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on the inter-firm production networks in Southeast Asian developing economies. Using firm-level … Read More
Foreign Presence Spillovers and Firms' Export Response:Evidence from the Indonesian Manufacturing
01 December 2009
This paper examines the existence of spillovers associated with the presence of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on a firm's decision to export, and on … Read More
Fragmentation in East Asia: Further Evidence
01 October 2009
Abstract This paper analyzes the spatial pattern of production/distribution networks in East Asia. Two issues are investigated. The one is how the formation of … Read More
Border Area Development in the GMS:Turning the Periphery into the Center of Growth
03 May 2009
Border area development is neither an original nor a brand new idea of the author. It has long been discussed in a variety … Read More
Business Views on Trade Facilitation
01 May 2009
Abstract Business views on the most important barriers to trade facilitation are taken from two region-wide surveys in 2006 covering the ASEAN priority integration … Read More
International Production Networks and Export/Import Responsiveness to Exchange Rates: The case of Japanese Manufacturing Firms
08 March 2009
Abstract This paper examines how international production/distribution networks provide individual firms with exporting/importing responsiveness to exchange rate movements. With the micro-data of Japanese manufacturing … Read More
Gains from Fragmentation at the Firm Level:Evidence from Japanese Multinationals in East Asia
07 March 2009
Abstract The unprecedented development of production networks in East Asia has been investigated, both theoretically and empirically, employing the conceptual framework of fragmentation theory and … Read More
Vertical and Horizontal FDI Technology Spillovers: Evidence from Thai Manufacturing
07 March 2009
This paper examines Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) spillover, using an unbalanced panel data set of the manufacturing survey of Thailand during the period … Read More
Plant Entry in a More Liberalised Industrialisation Process: An Experience of Indonesian Manufacturing during the 1990s
06 March 2009
Some major policy changes towards a more open trade and investment regime occurred in Indonesia during the 1980s and 1990s. The impact of … Read More
Learning-by-exporting in Korean Manufacturing: A Plant-level Analysis
03 March 2009
Abstract The paper analyzes whether firms that start exporting become more productive utilizing recently developed sample matching procedures to control the problems from self-selection … Read More
Stability of Production Networks in East Asia:Duration and Survival of Trade
02 March 2009
Abstract This paper sheds light on the stability of international production networks in East Asia from the perspective of the duration and survival of … Read More
The Spatial Structure of Production/Distribution Networks and Its Implication for Technology Transfers and Spillovers
01 March 2009
This paper argues that a variety of firm specificity supported by sophisticated inter-firm relationships is essential for understanding the mechanics and spatial structure … Read More
