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This paper provides new estimates of international trade in services for mode 3 (foreign affiliates’sales in a host country) for four major OECD countries, thanks to the harmonisation of FATS statistics with conventional international trade ones (trade recorded in the balances of payments –...
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This paper questions whether the overseas expansion of a country’s retailers fosters overall bilateral exports towards … model with data on bilateral exports on a large panel of countries and the foreign sales of world’s largest one hundred … country on its exports to those markets. This outcome is far from being trivial, as most products sold in retailers foreign …
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reduced these distortions in exports over the period. …
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capital-intensity and efficiency, as well as larger exports. Finally, FDI in service sectors is associated with significant …
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of FDI to low income countries, for which a contraction of employment and investment and exports is observed. By contrast …
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Balassa Index (Balassa 1965) is widely used in the literature to measure country-sector Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA). However, being computed on observed trade flows, it mixes up all the factors influencing trade flows. In particular, Balassa Index cannot isolate exporter-sector (ex...
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An Indirect Exporter is defined as a firm that sells its product to a trade intermediary in its own country, who then goes on to export the good. Despite the numerous appearances of these firms in recent theoretical models, there has been no empirical work comparing these firms to Domestic firms...
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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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With the progress of information and communication technologies, the cost and efforts to remotely exchange information have drastically fallen. It has created new opportunities to leverage comparative advantages by reorganizing value chains along the geographic dimension and by reconsidering the...
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