Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia
Trade
ERIA examines various aspects of trade starting from issues that can affect trade such as exchange rate volatility, trade facilitations, trade agreements, mega free trade agreements like the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement (RCEP), trade liberalisation, tariffs and non-tariffs measures, and many more.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Economic Consequences of Globalisation in the United States
21 January 2020
The unprecedented rise in global interdependence since World War II, especially since the 1970s, has been very productive. World gross domestic product (GDP) growth increased … Read More
Economic Consequences of Globalisation: Case Study of Thailand
26 December 2019
The paper reviews empirical works examining the effect of globalisation in Thailand, beginning with a discussion of its integration into the economy. Three drivers of … Read More
New Frontiers for Services in Globalisation
05 December 2019
The building of global value chains in manufacturing is much discussed, but less attention is given to the growth of value chains in services, their … Read More
