Kazunobu Hayakawa
Philippine Institute for Development Studies
239 Papers
1.1K Citations
Kazunobu Hayakawa is an academic researcher from Philippine Institute for Development Studies. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tariff & Free trade. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 215 publications. Previous affiliations of Kazunobu Hayakawa include Keio University & Japan External Trade Organization.
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The Role of Trade Costs in FDI Strategy of Heterogeneous Firms: Evidence from Japanese Firm-level Data
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the mechanics of HFDI and VFDI in order to shed light on the role of trade costs in the rapid growth of FDIs in developing countries, particularly East Asian countries, compared with that of FDI in developed countries.
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Currency Invoicing and Foreign Exchange Risk Management: A Case Study of Japanese Firms (Japanese)
Takatoshi Ito,Satoshi Koibuchi,Yuri Sasaki,Kiyotaka Sato,Junko Shimizu,Kazunobu Hayakawa,Taiyo Yoshimi +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted interviews with 12 major Japanese firms and revealed new "stylized facts" of the Japanese firms' strategy of currency invoicing, foreign exchange risk managements, and price-setting in recent years.
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Transport Modal Choice by Multinational Firms: Firm-level Evidence from Southeast Asia
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine transport-mode decisions by multinational firms to shed light on the role of freight logistics in multinational activity and show that foreign ownership has a significantly positive and quantitatively large impact on the likelihood that air/sea transportation is chosen relative to truck shipping.
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Domestic and international border effects: The cases of China and Japan☆
TL;DR: This article found that China's accession to the World Trade Organization reduces border effects in trading between China and Japan but does not decrease domestic border effects, in which such agglomeration forces will be weak.
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Nonconventional provisions in regional trade agreements: do they enhance international trade?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors empirically examined the extent to which those nonconventional provisions in regional trade agreements (RTAs) enhance international trade between RTA member countries by estimating a gravity equation with detailed information on the contents of RTAs.
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