Comments on Revisiting Complementarity between Japanese FDI and the Import of Intermediate Goods: Agglomeration Effects and Parent-firm Heterogeneity

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October 01 2020 Comments on Revisiting Complementarity between Japanese FDI and the Import of Intermediate Goods: Agglomeration Effects and Parent-firm Heterogeneity Author and Article Information Online Issn: 1536-0083 Print Issn: 1535-3516 © 2020 by the Asian Economic Panel and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2020Asian Economic Panel and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Asian Economic Papers (2020) 19 (3): 107–108. https://doi.org/10.1162/asep_a_00790 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Comments on Revisiting Complementarity between Japanese FDI and the Import of Intermediate Goods: Agglomeration Effects and Parent-firm Heterogeneity. Asian Economic Papers 2020; 19 (3): 107–108. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/asep_a_00790 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentAll JournalsAsian Economic Papers Search Advanced Search Deborah Swenson, University of California, Davis: By tracking the detailed product-level trade transactions for 929 Japanese affiliates in China, Ito, Matsuura, and Yang contribute to the classic literature that investigates the complementarity versus substitutability of trade and FDI. To advance this question, the paper studies the duration of intermediate input imports by these Chinese affiliates between 2000 and 2006. Because the authors have taken on the arduous task of creating a data set that combines four different sources, they illuminate a number of interesting relationships that are generally obscured by firm efforts to hide their proprietary actions from view. The key question posed by this paper is: How is the duration of intermediate input import by Chinese affiliates shaped by product, firm-level, and national considerations? Thanks to the paper's careful data effort, much of the paper's novelty lies in its ability to relate this question to the Japanese parent firms’... You do not currently have access to this content.