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Macroeconomic Consequences of Global Endogenous Migration: a General Equilibrium Analysis

Borgy, Vladimir; Chojnicki, Xavier; Garrec, Gilles Le; … - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2009

regions. Our analysis offers a global perspective on the consequences of international migration flows. The value-added of the … INGENUE 2 model is that it enables us to analyze the effects of international migration on both the destination and the origin … regions. A further innovation of our analysis is that international migration is treated as endogenous. In a first step, we …

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Isolating the Network Effect of Immigrants on Trade

Aleksynska, Mariya; Peri, Giovanni - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2011

Within the migration-trade nexus literature, this paper proposes a more carefully defined measure of migration business …

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Migration and Regional Trade Agreement: a (new) Gravity Estimation

Orefice, Gianluca; Lima, Luiz; Figueiredo, Erik - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2014

This paper investigates the role of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) on bilateral international migration. By … increasing the information on the potential destination country, RTAs may favour bilateral migration flows among member countries …. Building on the gravity model for migration by Anderson (2011), our econometric strategy controls for the multilateral …

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Native language, spoken language, translation and trade

Melitz, Jacques; Toubal, Farid - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2012

We construct new series for common native language and common spoken language for 195 countries, which we use together with series for common official language and linguistic proximity in order to draw inferences about (1) the aggregate impact of all linguistic factors on bilateral trade, (2)...

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Export Sophistication and Economic Performance: Evidence from Chinese Provinces

Jarreau, Joachim; Poncet, Sandra - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2009

We consider the effect of export sophistication on economic performance using regional variations within a single country (China) over the period 1997-2007. We confirm Hausmann, Hwang and Rodrik (2007)’s prediction that regions that engage in the cost discovery process of developing...

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FDI from the South: the Role of Institutional Distance and Natural Resources

Aleksynska, Mariya; Havrylchyk, Olena - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2011

This study explores location choices for investors stemming from emerging economies (often referred to as the South), with a particular emphasis on institutions and natural resources. Relying on a novel dataset of bilateral FDI flows between 1996 and 2007, we demonstrate that FDI from the South...

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A Foreign Direct Investment database for global CGE models

Gouel, Christophe; Guimbard, Houssein; Laborde, David - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2012

We describe the methodology used to construct a global database of foreign direct investments in three dimensions (investor country, host country and sector) for 2004. Based on Eurostat data, we estimate theoretical investments for all countries. Then we constrain our estimates subject to...

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If Foreign Investment Is not Foreign: Round-Trip Versus Genuine Foreign Investment in Russia

Ledyaeva, Svetlana; Karhunen, Päivi; Whalley, John - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2013

In this paper we study the phenomenon of round-trip investment between Russia and key offshore financial centers (OFCs), namely, Cyprus and British Virgin Islands, which is now a significant part of foreign investment into Russia. Using firm-level data we study differences in location strategies...

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The Effects at Home of Initiating Production Abroad: Evidence from Matched French Firms

Hijzen, Alexander; Jean, Sébastien; Mayer, Thierry - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2009

Based on matching techniques in combination with a difference-in-difference estimator, this paper estimates the effects at home of initiating production abroad through the establishment of a foreign production affiliate. The analysis covers manufacturing and service firms active in France during...

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The Elusive Impact of Investing Abroad for Japanese Parent Firms: Can Disaggregation According to FDI Motives Help?

Hering, Laura; Inui, Tomohiko; Poncet, Sandra - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2010

In the present paper, we investigate whether previous findings of limited effects of investing abroad on the firm’s performance can be explained by the aggregation of heterogeneous effects depending on the FDI motives, sectors and locations. Results suggest, in line with previous work, that on...

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