FUTURE AUSTRALIA-JAPAN TRADE RELATIONS

Overcoming Misperceptions in Australia-Japan Relations

Dynamics of woodchip trade between Australia and Japan, and need for international cooperation of forest advocates

Japan imports more than 25 million cubic-meters of woodchips from various countries in the world to use these chips as raw materials for paper. The significant amount of the imports makes Japan the biggest woodchip importer in the world. Japan has many woodchip exporters, and Australia is one of its important exporters. However, logging operations for exporting woodchips in Australia have had n...

Bilateral Economic Relations in a Global Political Economy: Australia and Japan

This paper argues that despite the internationalisation of economic activity, and a concomitant diminution of economic policy-making autonomy, national policy settings continue to display a surprising degree of divergence and remain important determinants of economic outcomes. Similarly, there are distinctively different and enduring patterns of corporate organisation across nations which confe...

Intermediate Goods Trade and Macroeconomic Volatility: The Case of Iran-China Trade Relations

This paper tries to analyze the impacts of intermediate goods trade on production, consumption, investment, net exports, employment, labor wage and capital rent of Iran in its bilateral trade relations with China. This analysis has been done by modeling, solving and calibrating an international real business cycles (IRBC) model in period 1980-2009. The results show that when elasticity of subst...

An Analysis of International Outsourcing in Iran-China Trade Relations

Iran-China relations are deeply rooted in history and have been enhanced recently with bilateral cooperation in the areas of energy, arms sales, trade, political cooperation and cultural ties. The objective of this paper is to analyze the role of international outsourcing in form of trading intermediate products on bilateral trade relations between Iran and China. As an empirical work, we h...