Two-dimensional fragmentation in East Asia: Conceptual framework and empirics

By F. Kimura, M. Ando. 2005

320 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Sónia Cabral
2. João Amador
3. Richard E. Baldwin
4. Martha Denisse Pierola
5. Alberto Amurgo-Pacheco
6. F. Kimura
7. M. Ando
8. Enrico Pinali

In Strategy and Management

1. Richard E. Baldwin
2. F. Kimura
3. Martha Denisse Pierola
4. Alberto Amurgo-Pacheco
5. Sónia Cabral
6. João Amador
7. M. Ando
8. Y. Takahashi

Citations in the corpus

• Vertical specialization across the world: a relative measure (2009, background): “Kimura and Ando (2005) examine the mechanics of international networks in East Asia using highly disaggregated international trade data and microdata for Japanese firms, finding evidence of active trade of parts and components in a combination of intra-firm and arm’s length transactions.”
• Patterns of export diversification in developing countries: intensive and extensive margins (2008, methodology): “This process is already showing up and has been analysed in previous studied by Ando & Kimura (2005).”
• Logistics and Time as a Trade Barrier (2006, background): “43 special economic zones in South East Asia and China have for instance contributed to creating a critical mass of skills and services inputs for the electronics sector (Kimura and Ando, 2005).”
• Managing the Noodle Bowl: The Fragility of East Asian Regionalism (2008, background): “This division of East Asia into headquarter (HQ) economies and factory economies strengthened as Hong Kong, China; 4 The best papers on Factory Asia are Ando (2004), Ando and Kimura (2004, 2005), Kimura and Ando (2003, 2005), Ng and Yeats (2003), and Fukao, Ishito, and Ito (2003).”
• International Production and Distribution Networks in East Asia: Eighteen Facts, Mechanics, and Policy Implications* (2006, background): “However, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis data suggest that East Asian affiliates of US firms also behave in a consistent manner with Facts 9, 10, and 11 (Kimura & Ando, 2005b).”
• Fragmentation and parts and components trade: Comparison between East Asia and Europe (2007, background): “4 Kimura and Ando (2005) propose the conceptual framework of two-dimensional fragmentation, i.e., fragmentation in terms of geographical distance and disintegration, as an effective tool for understanding corporate firms’ behavior in formulating production/distribution networks in East Asia.”
• DOES OFFSHORING PAY? FIRM‐LEVEL EVIDENCE FROM JAPAN (2010, unknown): “In particular, Japanese firms have increasingly taken advantage of the business opportunities provided through offshoring of production activities to other East Asian countries (Ando and Kimura, 2005).”
• Fragmentation and vertical intra-industry trade in East Asia (2006, background): “14 See, for instance, Lancaster (1980) and Helpman (1981) for the “ideal variety” approach that assumes a diversity of “ideal package” of characteristics among consumers, resulting in demand for variety at the aggregate level.”