Has Japan Been Left Out in the Cold by Regional Integration?
Bank of Japan, IMES Working Paper No. 2001-E-15
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Howard J. Wall
Lindenwood University - Center for Economics and the Environment
Date Written: August 2001
Despite the ongoing worldwide trend toward regional integration, Japan has remained outside of all regional trading agreements. Because more than 60 percent of Japan's trade is with countries that are members of a major regional bloc, this reluctance may have had significant effects on its pattern and volume of trade. Indeed, I find that Japan's exports have been reduced by the integration of its trading partners, and that this effect has been fairly uniform across integration regimes. I also find that of regional trading agreements have tended to have a much more negative effect on Japanese trade than on the trade of other non-members.
Keywords: regional integration, Japanese trade, gravity model
JEL Classification: F14, F15
Wall, Howard J., Has Japan Been Left Out in the Cold by Regional Integration? (August 2001). Bank of Japan, IMES Working Paper No. 2001-E-15, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=288327 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.288327
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