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over the last two decades, but it was still, in 1990, only about 7 percent of world output. The share was higher, at 15 …,' which are about 60 percent of world output. Given all the attention that 'globalization' has received from scholars …
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absorbing much of the world's supply, especially in the late 1980s, and then reverted to its earlier net supplier role. Direct …
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U.S.-owned manufacturing affiliates in foreign countries tended to become more export-oriented between 1966 and 1977. The shift toward exporting characterized affiliates in most industries and most countries.The bulk of U.S.-owned production abroad continues to be for local sale in most...
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exports and export shares of the United States, Germany, and Japan. The effects of relative price changes on export shares are … individual countries suggest that exports by the United States are most responsive to relative price changes and those of Germany … about 2% for Germany to over 7 for the United States, implying that firms switch easily between domestic sales and exports …
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This report, prepared for the Committee on Economic Statistics of the American Economic Association, examines the state of available data for the study of international trade and foreign direct investment. Data on values of imports and exports of goods are of high quality and coverage, but price...
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As production comes to depend more on intangible productive assets, the location of production by multinational firms becomes increasingly ambiguous. The reason is that, within the firm, these assets have no clear geographical location, but only a nominal location determined by the firm's tax or...
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A substantial part of international differences in prices of individual products, both goods and services, can be explained by differences in per capita income, wage compression, or low wage dispersion among low-wage workers, and short-term exchange rate fluctuations. Higher per capita income is...
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World trade in services has recently been a little under $US2 trillion, about a quarter of world trade in goods. That …
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.nber.org/data (International Trade Data, NBER-UN world trade data). Users must agree not to resell or distribute the data for 1984-2000. The data … United Nations classification. This dataset updates the Statistics Canada World Trade Database as described in Feenstra …
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impact of FDI in promoting the growth of host country exports and linkages to the outside world is clearer. The major role of … transfer of knowledge of world markets and of ways of fitting into worldwide production networks, not visible in standard …
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