scholarly journals Intraregional Trade in East Asia: Trade Integration and International Production Fragmentation

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-63
Author(s):  
Marina Mazitova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Trade Integration ◽  
International Production ◽  
Production Fragmentation

Beyond Flying Geese: The Expansion of East Asia’s Electronics Trade

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
An-Chi Tung
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Electronics Industry ◽  
Differentiated Products ◽  
The Past ◽  
International Production ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
Production Fragmentation

Abstract The flying geese (FG) hypothesis, which asserts the sequential catching-up processes of the latecomers, holds well in the past. Yet a simultaneous boom within the electronics industry across East Asia casts doubt on the applicability of the hypothesis. By using the RCA and NET indices, the paper finds that the FG pattern shows in the electronics industry as a whole, but not always so at the disaggregated level. This suggests that the FG formation may not appear in other industries, if they are involved in international production fragmentation or have differentiated products, and if certain latecomers have become new leaders.

scholarly journals Analysis of the Role of Tariff Concessions in East Asia

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-167
Author(s):  
Kenichi Kawasaki ◽  
Badri G. Narayanan ◽  
Houssein Guimbard ◽  
Arata Kuno
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Trade Integration ◽  
Economic Partnership ◽  
Trade Analysis ◽  
Global Trade Analysis Project ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Tariff Reductions

While many studies focus on the impact of trade agreements, the literature has not focused on the extent of their implementation, in terms of the aspects agreed upon therein. In this article, we identify the past achievements of economic partnership agreements (EPAs) in the East Asian region in terms of tariff removals and suggest room for further economic benefits from trade liberalisation in the region. Second, we incorporate the HS6-level tariff concession dataset, which distinguishes between tariff removals agreed in these EPAs in East Asia but not yet implemented, from existing overall tariffs in 2011, in the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) Database, which only incorporates enforced tariff reductions through the base-year applied tariffs. To analyse future trade integration, we include commitments that are not yet implemented. This allows us to analyse partial versus full enforcement of tariff concession commitments. Our results suggest that taking those commitments into account matters economically in East Asia. JEL Classification: D58, F13, F14, F15, F17

Economic Integration and Changes in the Business Cycle in East Asia: Is the Region Decoupling from the Rest of the World?

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yung Chul Park ◽  
Kwanho Shin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Business Cycle ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Financial Integration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Trade Integration ◽  
Global Integration ◽  
Trade Relations ◽  
The Business Cycle

Countries in East Asia (EA) have made a great deal of progress in integrating their economies since the early 1990s. There has been a sustained increase in intra-regional trade in EA. On finance, however, regional financial integration has been lagging behind trade integration and EA has reached out to global financial markets to effect deeper global integration. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of intra-regional and extra-regional financial integration on changes in the pattern of EA's business cycle since 1990 to see whether there is any ground for “decoupling” of EA from the United States and the EU. On trade relations, the empirical results show that deepening trade integration contributes to more synchronized output movements among EA countries. There is also evidence that financial integration enhances more synchronization of output, but because its impact is not strong, the extra-regional integration does not necessarily dispute the prediction that EA's output movement has become more idiosyncratic than before, and therefore less closely tied with that of the United States.

scholarly journals International Production Networks: The Role of East Asia

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (49) ◽  
pp. 71-98
Author(s):  
Marina Mazitova ◽  
Yana Dyomina
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
International Production
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