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): 109–110. https://doi.org/10.1162/asep_a_00791 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): 109–110. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/asep_a_00791 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 Shigeyuki Abe, Kyoto University: One of the contributions of this paper is the creation of unique panel data by combining Chinese Custom Trade data, China's Annual Survey of Industrial Firms, Toyo Keizai's Overseas Japanese Companies, and Tokyo Stock Research data by identifying both parent and affiliated firms for seven years from 2000 to 2006. Adopting a discrete-time hazard model used by Hess and Persson (2012), the authors lead to a conclusion that firms in agglomerated regions with more foreign affiliates shorten its duration, while small and medium-sized (SME) firms import for a longer duration. My first comment is on the use of Toyo Keizai's Overseas Japanese Companies. These data provide the year of establishment of the FDI company. However, the paper does not use this establishment year data for further analysis. The behavior of FDI companies can depend on the year of establishment year, especially with regard to... You do not currently have access to this content.