This study focuses on four Asia Pacific countries ¡V Australia, Japan, Korea, and
Taiwan ¡V and analyses how the other three influence one¡¦s domestic manufacturing
sectors through international trade and FDI activities. To reveal the truth that different
industrial structures and absorption capacity may affect each country's efficiency to
assimilate spillovers, the index of capture parameter is built in the dynamic
adjustment model. By applying the unbalanced panel data from 1990-2003, it is found
that both trade and FDI serve as important channels of international technology
diffusion. With all sectors are considered, Korea is the country that benefits the most
from international trade and FDI activities. For Australia and Japan, FDI spillovers
bring more sectors with positive effects than what trade spillovers do. Taiwan, on the
other hand, receives beneficial spillovers from both trade and FDI in two sectors.
While the positive spillovers effect occurs in every manufacturing sector, negative
relationship between domestic sectors¡¦ productivity and international spillovers can be
found in some sectors as well. This phenomenon can be accounted for the lack of
technology capture ability and the occurrence of market-stealing effect or asymmetric
bargaining power.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0811108-001533 |
| Date | 11 August 2008 |
| Creators | TSAI, PO-YU |
| Contributors | Chun-Sin Hwang, Pan-Long Tsai, Diana H. A. Tsai |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0811108-001533 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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