Production Networks and Enterprises in East Asia: Industry and Firm-level Analysis

Part 1 Introduction and Overview -- 1 Introduction (Ganeshan Wignaraja) -- 2 Toward "Trade Policy Analysis 2.0": From National Comparative Advantage to Firm-Level Trade Data (Lucian Cernat) -- 3 Production Networks in East Asia: What We Know So Far (Fukunari Kimura and Ayako Obashi) -- Part 2 Industry Analysis in East Asia -- 4 The Changing Nature of the Production Network in East Asia (Matthias Helble and Boon-Loong Ngiang) -- 5 Exports of Parts and Components by Different Types of Firms in the People's Republic of China: A Comprehensive Examination (Hyun-Hoon Lee, Donghyun Park, and Jing Wang) -- 6 The Evolution of Industrial Networks in East Asia: Stylized Facts and Role of Trade Facilitation Policies (Hubert Escaith and Satoshi Inomata) -- 7 Production Networks in Asia: A Case Study from the Hard Disc Drive Industry (Daisuke Hiratsuka) -- Part 3 Firm-Level Analysis in East Asia -- 8 Production Networks, Profits, and Innovative Activity: Evidence from Malaysia and Thailand (Ganeshan Wignaraja, Jens Krüger, and Anna-Mae Tuazon) -- 9 Understanding Innovation in Production Networks in Firms in the People's Republic of China, Thailand, and the Philippines (Ganeshan Wignaraja) -- 10 SME Internationalization through Global Value Chains and Free Trade Agreements: Evidence from Malaysia (Menaka Arudchelvan and Ganeshan Wignaraja) -- 11 SME Finance and Trade at the Firm-Level: Evidence from the People's Republic of China and ASEAN Economies (Yothin Jinjarak, Paulo Jose Mutuc, and Ganeshan Wignaraja) -- Part 4 Beyond East Asia -- 12 Global Value Chains and Least Developed Countries in Asia: Cost and Capability Considerations in Cambodia and Nepal (Jodie Keane and Yurendra Basnett) -- 13 Donor Support for Connecting Firms in Asia to Value Chains (William Hynes and Frans Lammersen).