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Reevaluating the Role of Trade Agreements : Does Investment Globalization Make the WTO Obsolete?

Blanchard, Emily J. - 2014

strategic manipulation of world prices. The policy prediction is unclear, however, since international cross-ownership also …

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Investment Climate and International Integration

Dollar, David; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Mengistae, Taye - 2013

Drawing on recently completed firm-level surveys in Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Honduras, India, Nicaragua, Pakistan, and Peru, this paper investigates the relationship between investment climate and international integration. These standardized surveys of large, random samples of firms in common...

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Trade and Investment in the Global Economy

Anderson, James E. - 2017

actual aggregate cross-section data for 89 countries in 2011 to a hypothetical world without FDI. The gains from FDI amount … to 9% of world's welfare and to 11% of world's trade, unevenly distributed among winners and losers. Net exports of FDI …

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FDI, Trade Integration and the Border Effect : Evidence from the European Union

Martinez-San Roman, Valeriano - 2014

This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern – horizontal versus vertical – within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture...

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Attracting Foreign Direct Investment : What Can South Asia's Lack of Success Teach Other Developing Countries?

Gould, David M.; Tan, Congyan; Sadeghi Emamgholi, Amir S. - 2014

Like many other developing countries, South Asian nations have been experiencing increased foreign direct investment inflows over the past decade as developing countries get a larger share of cross-border investments that were once sent to developed countries. Nonetheless, South Asia's inflows...

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Trade Liberalization and the Environment in Vietnam

Mani, Muthukumara; Jha, Shreyasi - 2012

Vietnam's joining of the World Trade Organization. …

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Openness and Industrial Response in a Wal-Mart World : A Case Study of Mexican Soaps, Detergents and Surfactant Producers

Javorcik, Beata; Keller, Wolfgang; Tybout, James - 2012

This paper uses a case study approach to explore the effects of NAFTA and GATT membership on innovation and trade in the Mexican soaps, detergents, and surfactants (SDS) industry. Several basic findings emerge. First, the most fundamental effect of the NAFTA and the GATT on the SDS industry was...

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The Impact on Russia of WTO Accession and The Doha Agenda : The Importance of Liberalization of Barriers against Foreign Direct Investment in Services for Growth and Poverty Reduct...

Rutherford, Thomas; Tarr, David; Shepotylo, Oleksandr - 2012

results with the impact of Russian accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on income distribution and the poor. The …Taking price changes from the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model of world trade, the authors use a small open … importance of foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization as part of Russian WTO accession, the authors also include FDI and …

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CGE Modeling of Market Access in Services

Christen, Elisabeth; Francois, Joseph; Hoekman, Bernard - 2012

This paper examines how the applied multi-sector computable general equilibrium (CGE) literature has moved into quantication of the impacts of greater market access for services. This includes discussion of multi-sector linkages to the service sector, as well both measuring barriers to trade and...

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Romania's Integration into European Markets : Implications for Sustainability of the Current Export Boom

Kaminski, Bartlomiej; Ng, Francis - 2013

In defiance of its unimpressive track in structural reforms and relatively low foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, Romanian exports have experienced surprisingly strong performance in both European Union (EU) and non-EU markets since 2000 after a four-year period of flat growth. While the...

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