Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia
ERIA
ERIA is an international organization established by a formal agreement among 16 Heads of Government at the Third East Asia Summit in Singapore on 21 November 2007. It works closely with both the ASEAN Secretariat and 16 research institutes in EAS countries to provide intellectual and analytical research and policy recommendations. The ERIA Headquarters is based in ASEAN Secretariat, Jakarta, Indonesia. These research and policy recommendations are expected to help in the deliberation of the leaders and ministers during their meetings and the East Asia and ASEAN Summits. As its activity is highly recognized in those regions, ERIA ranks 30th among the world’s “Top 50 International Economic Policy Think Tanks” according to the 2013 Global Go To Think Tanks Index Report. ERIA is the only think tank in ASEAN to be honored in this category. ERIA conducts research under three pillars, namely “Deepening Economic Integration”, “Narrowing Development Gaps”, and “Sustainable Development”. Studies cover a wide range of areas such as trade and investment, globalization, SME promotion, human resource and infrastructure development, and energy issues.
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Tariff Policies and Wages in Manufacturing Industries: New Evidence from Viet Nam
(Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, 2020-03-30)This paper reviews the tariff policies and their impact on the wages of workers in manufacturing during the substantial trade liberalisation period in Viet Nam from 2011 to 2015, the four years following Viet Nam becoming a middle-income country. The ... -
Do Regional Trade Agreements Really Help Global Value Chains Develop? Evidence from Thailand
(Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, 2020-03-15)This paper examines the firm-level nexus between exporting and importing by using firm-level data from Thai customs. We differentiate firms’ imports according to the tariff regime used (e.g. regional trade agreements (RTAs)). Our finding is that imports ... -
Policies and Financing Strategies for Low-Carbon Energy Transition: Overcoming Barriers to Private Financial Institutions
(Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, 2020-02-28)Placing Asian economies on a low-carbon path requires an unprecedented shift in private investment and new financing models. A growing community of investors is seeking new climate- and environment-friendly opportunities, which financial institutions ... -
Production Dynamics in Multi-Product Firms’ Exporting
(Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, 2020-02-28)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 domestic market, or of both. Namely, when firms begin to export, they must reallocate their ... -
Learning to Export Effect as a Response to Export Opportunities: Micro Evidence from Korean Manufacturing
(Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, 2020-02-28)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 of plant product level data from the Republic of Korea during ... -
Global Value Chain Participation and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labour in East Asia
(Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, 2020-02-28)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 labour in total compensation, focusing on the experience of 12 East Asian countries. ... -
The Effects of the Temporary Protection on Firm Performances: Evidence from the Steel Industry in Viet Nam
(Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, 2020-02-28)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 inputs to downstream sectors. Using panel Vietnamese enterprise surveys from ... -
Processing Trade, Trade Liberalisation, and Opening Up: China’s Miracle of International Trade
(Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, 2019-11-30)Understanding the role of international trade is the key to understanding China’s miraculous economic growth. This paper reviews the literature on international trade in the context of China, with a focus on processing trade, trade liberalisation, and ... -
Economic Consequences of Trade and Investment Liberalisation: The Case of Viet Nam
(Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, 2019-11-30)Since Doi Moi (Renovation) in 1986, economic integration has been an important pillar of Viet Nam’s reforms. Economic integration has gradually deepened, and even World Trade Organization accession in 2007 marked no end to Viet Nam’s economic integration ... -
Does Participation in Global Value Chains Increase Productivity? An Analysis of Trade in Value Added Data
(Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, 2019-11-30)This paper examines the impact of global value chain (GVC) participation on productivity by considering both backward and forward participation. Conducting a panel estimation covering 47 countries and 13 manufacturing sectors for 1995–2011, we found ...