| 研究実績の概要 |
In the past year, I have successfully collected the Japanese firm-level and affiliate-level micro data, from the statistics group of MEXI. However, the process was far more complicated and time-consuming than I have expected. Nevertheless, I used the rest of the time to clean up the datasets, and tried to merge these two different datasets into a unified one. Given the richness of the micro data, and detailed information on each firm and its affiliates, I have drawn some stylized facts based on the cleaned master dataset, for example, how a Japanese firm’s trade and foreign investment respond to each other in different industries; how the headquarter’s decision of investment expansion leads to different sourcing behavior of its affiliates. These are all important supporting materials that can guide my research in the next step.
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| 今後の研究の推進方策 |
In the future research, there are two directions that I plan to follow: 1) To start with the empirical verification concerning Japanese firms’ entry/exit choices into the European market. Following the signing of EU-Korea FTA, I will apply more sophisticated econometric method to estimate how much Japanese firms’ choice of FDI strategies has changed in response to this economic shock (FTA), while take into account the potential endogeneity issue. 2) I will expand the study to investigate how the enlargement of Japanese firms’ outward foreign direct investment will affect the structure of employment in the home country, as well as how they allocate the resources among different foreign affiliates.
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