1 Introduction.- 2.- The Korea-EU Free Trade Agreement versus the Japan-EU Economic Partnership Agreement.- 3 The Korea-EU Trade Structure and Effects of Free Trade Agreement with Reduction in Tariffs and Non-Tariff Measures.- 4.- A Discussion of the Japan-EU Economic Partnership Agreement: Negotiations, Tentative Results, and Potential.- 5 The Effects of Brexit on Prices under the EU-Japan EPA.- 6.- Expectations of Japanese Small and Medium Enterprises regarding the Japan-EU Economic Partnership Agreement Analysis from an independent survey.-
About the Author:

Masahiko Yoshii

Masahiko Yoshii is a professor of economics and currently serves as executive vice president in charge of international exchange and university evaluation at Kobe University. He joined the Faculty of Economics there in 1985, and was promoted to full professor in 1998. He was the dean of the Graduate School of Economics at Kobe University in the years 2012-2014. He also has worked at the Embassy of Japan in Bucharest, Romania 1990-1992 and was a visiting researcher at the Vienna Institute of International Economic Studies (WiiW) 2001-2002. He was appointed as a Jean Monnet Chair for 2015-2018 and now serves as a coordinator of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at Kobe University.

Dr. Yoshii's major research interests are comparative economic systems and the economies of Central and Eastern European countries and Russia. He is also interested in the economic relationship between Japan and the EU. He is a member of the Japan Association of Russian and Eastern European Studies, the Japan Association of Comparative Economic Studies, the European Studies Association Japan, and the Japan Economic Policy Association, all of which associations he has served as a board member.

Professor Yoshii has many papers and books to his credit, including, as co-editor, The EU in Turmoil (Inoue and Yoshii, eds., Keiso-shobo, 2018); Japan and the European Union in the Global Economy (Guntram and Yoshii, eds., Bruegel Blueprint No. 22, 2014); Deepening and Enlargement of the EU Integration and the Euro Crisis (Kubo and Yoshii, eds., Keiso Shobo, 2013); and Contemporary Russian Economy (Mizobata and Yoshii, eds., Minerva 2011).

Chae-Deug Yi:

Chae-Deug Yi is a professor at the College of Economics and International Trade at Pusan National University (PNU), Republic of Korea. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Ohio State University, USA. He has worked as the founding director of the PNU EU Centre since 2009 and has been a Jean Monnet Chair holder in EU integration since 2010. He initiated and founded the ASIA - EU graduate student conference with Prof. Toshiro Tanaka (Keio University, Japan) in 2010. He has been teaching international trade and finance, econometrics, and EU economics at the Graduate School of International Studies, Law School, and College of Economics and International Trade, PNU, in Korea. He is now the president of the Korea Research Association of International Commerce. He held visiting professional positions in the USA at Duke University 2005-2006 and at UC Berkeley 2015-2016; and in China at Yeonbin University of Science of Technology in 2002. He also attended the International Negotiation Project, Harvard University, USA, 1997, and the Econometrics Summer Camp, Cambridge University, UK, 2019.