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Agglomeration effects of inter-firm backward and forward linkages: evidence from Japanese manufacturing investment in China
Yamashita, Nobuaki; Matsuura, Toshiyuki; Nakajima, Kentaro - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014
This paper examines the agglomeration effects of multinational firms on the location decisions of first-time Japanese …-firm backward and forward linkages formed in a home country. The conditional and mixed logit estimates reveal that agglomeration by … first-tier suppliers and customers draws subsequent investment into a location. However, such agglomeration effects are not …
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The Economic Geography of European Carbon Market Trading
Knight, Eric - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the world’s first regional 10 carbon trading market. This article is a quantitative attempt to examine the temporal and spatial geography of European carbon trading. We show that carbon markets are especially sensitive to two...
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What Drives FDI Policy Liberalization? An Empirical Investigation
Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya; Cooray, Arusha - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012
Do countries compete for FDI by liberalizing their FDI policy regimes? Our measure of FDI policy liberalization is an event count of changes made by a country in a given year in the areas of approval procedures, sectoral restrictions, operational conditions, incentives, investment guarantees,...
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INCREASING RETURNS, FINANCIAL CAPITAL MOBILITY AND REAL EXCHANGE RATE DYNAMICS
Pennings, Steven; Tyers, Rod - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2007
The 1990s appreciation of the US$ has been blamed on the 'irrational exuberance' of investors in the US IT boom. A core of these investors appeared to believe that technology-related productivity growth (due, in part, to knowledge spill-over externalities) would raise the relative US rate of...
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CHINA'S REAL EXCHANGE RATE PUZZLE
Tyers, Rod; Golley, Jane; Bain, Iain - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2007
International pressure to revalue China's currency stems in part from the expectation that rapid economic growth should be associated with a real exchange rate appreciation. This hinges on the Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis under which economic growth, stemming from improvements in traded sector...
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South-South Trade: An Asian Perspective
Athukorala, Prema-chandra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
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When the Claim Hits: Bilateral Investment Treaties and Bounded Rational Learning
Aisbett, Emma Kate; Poulsen, Lauge N. Skovgaard - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
Using the international investment regime as its point of departure, the paper introduces notions of bounded rationality to the study of economic diplomacy. Through a multi-method approach, it shows that developing countries often ignored the risks of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) until...
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Industrialisation through State-MNC Partnership: Lessons from the Malaysia's National Car Project
Athukorala, Prema-chandra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762629
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Differential Impacts of Foreign Capital and Remittance Inflows on Domestic Savings in the Developing Countries: A Dynamic Heterogeneous Panel Analysis
Hossain, Delwar - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014
The study examines the role of foreign capital and remittance inflows in the domestic savings of 63 developing countries for 1971-2010, paying attention to likely differential effects of FDI, portfolio investment, foreign aid and remittance. The conventional homogeneous panel estimates suggest...
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What drives the German current account? And how does it affect other EU member states?
Kollmann, Robert; Ratto, Marco; Roeger, Werner; Jan … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014
We estimate a three-country model using 1995-2013 data for Germany, the Rest of the Euro Area (REA) and the Rest of the World (ROW) to analyze the determinants of Germany’s current account surplus after the launch of the Euro. The most important factors driving the German surplus were positive...
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