Sumie Sato (Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University) Mototsugu Fukushige () (Graduate School of Economics, Osaka university)
Abstract
This paper attempts to forecast the changes in the Kansai-Areafs import and export when the East Asia Free Trade Agreements (FTA) is concluded among several countries in East and South-East Asia. We simulate the changes in the Kansai-Areafs trade in the following manner. First, we survey the simulation studies that forecast the changed in Japanfs national level trades by industries under the FTA. Second, we estimate a link model between the Japanfs national level and Kansai-Areafs import and export by commodities. Finally, we forecast the changes in the Kansai-Areafs import and export by extrapolating the estimated link models with the changes in the national level import and export. The result implies that the FTA promotes the Kansai-Areafs trade totally and expands the regional trade surplus.
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Paper provided by Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics and Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) in its series Discussion Papers in Economics and Business with number
07-41.