In this paper we document the growing importance of intra-East Asian trade of parts and components. Our empirical analysis shows that FDI does play an important and independent or exogenous role in facilitating the trade of parts and components in East Asia. This is true for aggregate FDI as well as FDI from individual countries, including investment from the United States, Japan and South Kore...

This paper examines the implications of international fragmentation of production for trade patterns in the Pacific Rim, with special emphasis on regional and global integration of countries in East Asia. The analysis reveals that the degree of dependence of East Asia on this new global division labour is much larger compared to the other countries in the Pacific Rim and Europe. Networkrelated ...

A new approach for flood frequency analysis based on the probability density evolution method (PDEM) is proposed. It can avoid the problem of linear limitation for flood frequency analysis in a parametric method and avoid the complex process for choosing the kernel function and window width in the nonparametric method. Based on the annual maximum peak discharge (AMPD) in 54 years from the Dalai...

We explore the consequences of placing the Standard Model gauge fields in the bulk of the recently proposed localized gravity model of Randall and Sundrum. We find that the Kaluza Klein excitations of these fields are necessarily strongly coupled and we demonstrate that current precision electroweak data constrain the lowest states to lie above ' 23 TeV. Taking the weak scale to be ∼ 1 TeV, the...

A new gravity model with the function F (R) = (1/β) arctan (βR− βR) instead of the Ricci scalar in the Einstein–Hilbert action, describing inflation of the Universe, is suggested and analyzed. We obtain constant curvature solutions of the model in the Jordan frame. Performing the conformal transformation of the metric, the potential and the mass of a scalar degree of freedom in the Einstein fra...