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This open access book explores the impact of deep regional economic integration on spillovers of knowledge and technology across countries. Deep integration through signing deep regional trade agreements (DRTAs), which cover various policy areas in addition to tariff reductions, may or may not facilitate technology spillovers among their signatories. To understand the mechanism of the impact of deep integration on technology spillovers, this book starts by analyzing the behavior of global firms. Factors that affect global firms' activities, such as export, foreign direct investment (FDI), offshore outsourcing, are examined. Micro data on Japanese firms are employed for the analysis. Then, the relationships between bilateral trade patterns and technology spillovers and between types of FDI and technology spillovers are investigated in detail. Patent citation data are used to measure technology spillovers. Finally, the impact of DRTAs on international technology spillovers is analyzed. This book is highly recommended to readers who are interested in the effects of deep regional integration, including academic scholars, policymakers, and graduate students.
About the author
Naoto Jinji
Naoto Jinji is Professor of Economics at Kyoto University and a Faculty Fellow of Japan's Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI). He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of British Columbia in Canada. His major is international economics, industrial organization, and environmental economics. He has published numerous papers on international trade and trade policy, regional trade agreements, international technology spillovers, topics in industrial organization and environmental economics, and other related topics in international refereed journals, including Canadian Journal of Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Review of International Economics, Review of World Economics, and the World Economy. He was awarded the 14th Kojima Kiyoshi Prize from the Japan Society of International Economics.
Xingyuan Zhang
Xingyuan Zhang is Professor in theFaculty of Economics, Okayama University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Kobe University. His major is applied econometrics and industrial organization. He has published numerous papers in international refereed journals, including Journal of Productivity Analysis, Journal of Technology Transfer, Contemporary Economic Policy, and Economics of Innovation and New Technology.
Shoji Haruna
Shoji Haruna is Professor Emeritus and Specially Appointed Professor at Okayama University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Hitotsubashi University. His major is Industrial Organization and Applied Microeconomics. He has published numerous papers in journals such as Canadian Journal of Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Comparative Economics, and Southern Economic Journal.
