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Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question: are trade and factor flows … finds that policy-makers never behaved as if they viewed trade and immigration as substitutes. …
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contributions that investigate the determinants of international trade and investment in services, the potential gains from greater …Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by … the WTO and regional trade agreements. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of unilateral services …
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The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...
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technologies that can help mitigate global warming. An agreement to facilitate trade by cutting red tape will further expand trade … their ability to take advantage of new opportunities will be enhanced by the Doha-related “aid for trade” initiative … Agenda, most urgently the trade policy implications of climate change mitigation. …
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This paper develops a theory of the endogenous formation of a common market in a three-country, two-factor political economy model. In the status quo, Home and Foreign implement non-discriminatory policies towards international factor flows, as to maximize the domestic median voter's welfare....
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The countries of Central and Eastern Europe have displayed widely disparate trade performance since the beginning of … after 1994 than before. In accounting for these patterns, our analysis points to the importance of direct foreign investment … (DFI) and outward processing trade. DFI has been an engine of technological and organization learning, but it has been …
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The practice of sourcing service inputs from overseas suppliers has been growing in response to new technologies. This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using instrumental variables estimation to address the potential...
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-intensive industries, which will confront export displacement in third (EU) markets and some foreign direct investment (FDI) diversion.Trade … Agreements are progressively implemented, is projected to have a significant impact on trade flows with Spain, as exports and … trade or of EU trade with the Central and East European Countries (CEECs). The product composition of this trade will …
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In this paper we analyse productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment using firm level panel data UK … different types of inward investment. …
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With a firm-level dataset, we study the location decision of all South Korean multinationals across China's regions between 1992 and 2004, taking into account spatial aspects. Our conditional logit estimates confirm previous studies that stress the agglomeration effects along industry and along...
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