Economists have lengthy famous the earnings from overseas alternate. The query is, does overseas exchange – or extra widely, globalization – raise development? though the debates, there are nonetheless many questions, previous and new, have to be explored on the way to increase our realizing on numerous facets of globalization, together with its effects. This e-book addresses a few of these questions, using micro datasets of a few East Asian nations. the focal point on East Asia is very attention-grabbing it's because each one of these nations have really extra opened economic climate and skilled a speedy de facto integration really recently.

The e-book puts forward questions that are on the topic of the connection among globalization at the one hand, and company functionality, actions, or features, at the different. The chapters draw fresh theoretical framework from the proper literatures, after which empirically try out – regularly by means of econometric research – the hypotheses on those relationships. the level or value of the globalization effect can be tested by way of the technique of descriptive research. ultimately, there are important insights for coverage decision-makers to be drawn from the empirical effects.

The book presents rigorous empirical research in response to fresh theoretical framework in overseas economics, targeting the top becoming quarter on the earth. using micro-data research – a key function of this booklet – supplies us a lot richer info on a variety of problems with globalization. This e-book, accordingly, can be of the interest to students and postgraduate scholars of overseas economics, improvement economics, and East Asian economics.