Input Trade and Production Networks in East Asia

Edited by Daisuke Hiratsuka, Director-General, Research Planning Department, Institute of Developing Economies (IDE), JETRO and Yoko Uchida, Associate Senior Research Fellow, Microeconomic Analysis Group, Development Studies Center, Institute of Developing Economies (IDE), JETRO, Japan

• Contents:Preface1. The Development of Input Trade and Production Networks in East AsiaDaisuke Hiratsuka and Yoko Uchida2. Vertical Specialization: Some Evidence from East Asia from 1975 to 2000David Hummels and Yoko Uchida3. Some Evidence on the Nature and Growth of Input TradeDavid Hummels and Laura Puzzello4. Characteristics and Determinants of East Asia’s Trade Patterns Daisuke Hiratsuka5. Japan’s Parts and Components Exports and Complementarity with Foreign InvestmentKazuhiko Yokota6. Complex FDI in Japanese MultinationalsKazunobu Hayakawa and Toshiyuki Matsuura7. Production Networks in East Asia: Evidence from a Survey of Japanese FirmsHiromichi Ozeki8. The Spatial Structure of Production/Distribution Networks and its Implication for Technology Transfers and SpilloversFukunari Kimura 9. International Fragmentation in Laos: Patterns, Progress and ProspectsKeola SouknilanhIndex

‘Spatial fragmentation of production is linked with two great waves of unbundling. The first one was a century and a half ago when the spatial location of production of goods was separated from their consumption. We live in the age of a second unbundling where certain operations within the same factory can be fragmented and performed elsewhere. There is trade in certain tasks and components which was made possible by cheaper and better communication and transport. This book considers production networks in East Asia, which is and will continue to be the most dynamic economic region in the decades to come.’