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United States, Japanese, and Korean FDI and Intra-East Asian Trade

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  • Kwong-Chiu Fung

    (University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA.)

  • Hitomi Iizaka

    (Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan.)

  • Alan Siu

    (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.)

Abstract

This paper documents the growing importance of intra-East Asian trade of parts and components. Our empirical analysis shows that foreign direct investment (FDI) does play an important and independent role in facilitating the trade of parts and components in East Asia. This is true for FDI from all three source countries: the United States, Japan, and South Korea. Furthermore, our empirical studies show that compared with U.S. and Korean FDI, FDI from Japan has a particularly strong influence on trade in parts and components as well as trade in capital goods. One policy implication is that economies need to improve their physical infrastructure as well as the quality of their institutions to integrate further into the East Asian production network. (c) 2010 The Earth Institute at Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • Kwong-Chiu Fung & Hitomi Iizaka & Alan Siu, 2010. "United States, Japanese, and Korean FDI and Intra-East Asian Trade," Asian Economic Papers, MIT Press, vol. 9(3), pages 129-154, Fall.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:asiaec:v:9:y:2010:i:3:p:129-154
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    Cited by:

    1. Ayako Obashi & Fukunari Kimura, 2017. "Deepening and Widening of Production Networks in ASEAN," Asian Economic Papers, MIT Press, vol. 16(1), pages 1-27, Winter/Sp.
    2. Toshiyuki Matsuura, 2017. "Impact of Extensive and Intensive Margins of Foreign Direct Investment on Domestic Corporate Performance: Evidence from Japanese Automobile Parts Suppliers," Asian Economic Papers, MIT Press, vol. 16(2), pages 187-209, Summer.
    3. Tadashi Ito & Toshiyuki Matsuura & Chih-Hai Yang, 2020. "Revisiting Complementarity between Japanese FDI and the Import of Intermediate Goods: Agglomeration Effects and Parent-firm Heterogeneity," Asian Economic Papers, MIT Press, vol. 19(3), pages 90-106, Fall.
    4. Kiichiro Fukasaku & Bo Meng & Norihiko Yamano, 2011. "Recent Developments in Asian Economic Integration: Measuring Indicators of Trade Integration and Fragmentation," OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers 2011/3, OECD Publishing.

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