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Digital trade : developing a framework for analysis
Lopez Gonzalez, Javier; Jouanjean, Marie-Agnes - 2017
typology of digital trade that can be used to unpack transactions and analyse the issues. Digitalisation is changing what and … a growing consensus that it encompasses digitally enabled transactions in trade in goods and services which can be … either digitally or physically delivered involving consumers, firms and governments. Unpacking trade transactions along these …
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Subsidiary autonomy and performance in Japanese multinationals in Europe
Kawai, Norifumi; Strange, Roger - In: International Business Review 23 (2014) 3, pp. 504-515
Notwithstanding the growing body of research on headquarters–subsidiary relationships, the conditions under which subsidiary autonomy leads to enhanced subsidiary performance is still a subject of debate. This study adopts a contingency approach and investigates the effects of external...
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DETERMINANTS OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT PERFORMANCE – A CRITICAL LITERATURE REVIEW
Trapczynski, Piotr - In: Oeconomia Copernicana 4 (2013) 2, pp. 117-132
Foreign direct investment (FDI), its motives, modes and location choice constitute key subjects in theory and research in international business, due to their long-term consequences for firm competitiveness. The determinants of results achieved in foreign markets can therefore be described as a...
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Managing multinational corporations through compensation: The risk-sharing contract method
Shoham, Amir - In: Journal of Economics and Business 64 (2012) 3, pp. 231-239
This paper presents a mechanism that supports the flows of resources between subsidiaries of multinational companies. The mechanism is based on a risk-sharing contract between the HQ and the subsidiary manager. The model is built on the assumption that there are two alternative supervisory...
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Assessing the Value of Future Accessions to the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) : Some New Data Sources, Provisional Estimates, and an Evaluative Framework for Indivi...
World Trade Organization - 2011
The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) is a plurilateral Agreement, meaning that it comprises only a subset of the full Membership of the WTO. Currently, a number of WTO Members that are not Parties to the Agreement either are actively seeking accession to it, have commitments to...
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Africa’s Integration in the WTO Multilateral Trading System : Academic Support and the Role of WTO Chairs
World Trade Organization - 2021
The Marrakesh Agreement establishing the WTO recognizes the need for positive efforts designed to ensure that developing countries and especially the least developed among them secure a share in the growth in international trade commensurate with the needs of their economic development.This...
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Lessons from U.S.-China Trade Relations
Caliendo, Lorenzo; Parro, Fernando - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We review theoretical and empirical work on the economic effects of the United States and China trade relations during the last decades. We first discuss the origins of the China shock, its measurement, and present methods used to study its economic effects on different outcomes. We then focus...
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Baumol-Tobin and the Welfare Costs of National Security Border Delays
Whalley, John; Huang, Hui - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
where there is endogeneity both in the frequency of transactions and in the size of individual transactions across the …
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The Determinants of Food Aid Provisions to Africa and the Developing World
Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We examine the supply-side and demand-side determinants of global bilateral food aid shipments between 1971 and 2008. First, we find that domestic food production in developing countries is negatively correlated with subsequent food aid receipts, suggesting that food aid receipt is partly driven...
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GDP Growth Volatility and Regional Free Trade Agreements
EDWARDS, Jeffrey A. - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 10 (2010) 2, pp. 73-86
This research explores the consequences of entering into a regional free trade agreement on a country's level of volatility in real per capita GDP growth. It incorporates 97 countries and 2404 observations. It also employs a system GMM, dynamic panel methodology to control for business cycle...
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