This paper analyses how economic integration and the international division of labour have evolved among the ASEAN+3 countries in the last 20years. The paper proposes an indicator of the level of technological sophistication based on revealed comparative advantages and uses it to investigate the relation between technological advance, factor endowments and supply chain trade. It is shown that supply chain-trade does not facilitate technological transfer. On the contrary: FDI appears to have significant and negative spill-over effects on technological change. Positive spill-overs from FDI materialize only when host countries have sufficiently high levels of education.

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东盟+3地区的供应链贸易和技术转让

本文分析了过去20年间，东盟+3国家之间的经济一体化和国际分工如何演变。本文基于已揭示的比较优势，提出了一种技术复杂程度的指标，并用来研究技术进步，要素end赋与供应链贸易之间的关系。结果表明，供应链贸易不利于技术转让。相反：外国直接投资似乎对技术变革具有重大的负面影响。只有当东道国接受足够高的教育水平时，外国直接投资才会产生积极的溢出效应。