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Winners and losers from a commodities-for-manufactures trade boom
Costa, Francisco; Garred, Jason; Pessoa, João Paulo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
A recent boom in commodities-for-manufactures trade between China and other developing countries has led to much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126579
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Multinational firms, monopolistic competition and foreign investment uncertainty
Chawla, Arunish - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
firms better than a pure comparative advantage-trade cost framework does. While investment under uncertainty literature is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928806
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When the claim hits: bilateral investment treaties and bounded rational learning
Poulsen, Lauge N. Skovgaard; Aisbett, Emma - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
Using the international investment regime as its point of departure, the paper applies 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 they...
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International financial integration and entrepreneurship
Alfaro, Laura; Charlton, Andrew - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. Using a unique data set of approximately 24 million firms in nearly 100 countries in 1999 and 2004, we find suggestive evidence that international financial integration has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746519
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Innovation drivers, value chains and the geography of multinational firms in European regions
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Pietrobelli, Carlo; Rabellotti, Roberta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
This paper investigates the geography of multinational corporations’ investments in the EU regions. The ‘traditional’ sources of location advantages (i.e. agglomeration economies, market access and labour market conditions) are considered together with innovation and socio-institutional...
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The effect of trade on the demand for skill - evidence from the interstate highway system
Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
Since changes in trade openness are typically confounded with other factors, it has been difficult to identify the … labor market consequences of increased international trade. The advent of the United States Interstate Highway System … provides a unique policy experiment, which I use to identify the effect of reducing trade barriers on the relative demand for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745495
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The effect of trade on the demand for skill - evidence from the interstate highway system
Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Since changes in trade openness are typically confounded with other factors, it has been difficult to identify the … labor market consequences of increased international trade. The advent of the United States Interstate Highway System … provides a unique policy experiment, which I use to identify the effect of reducing trade barriers on the relative demand for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745883
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Barriers and the transition to modern growth
Ngai, L. Rachel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
This paper studies how differences in the size of barriers to capital accumulation can account for differences in long run economic development paths. In this model barriers affect both the beginning date and the pace of the modern economic growth. A fundamental property of the model is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928738
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Schooling, nation building and industrialization: a Gellnerian approach
Hauk, Esther; Ortega, Javier - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
and landowners). Industrialization requires the elites to finance schools and the masses to attend them. Schooling raises … dominant elite at the regional and country level is the same and/or the industrialization shock is sufficiently high. If …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183324
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Timeliness, trade and agglomeration
Harrigan, James; Venables, Tony - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
An important element of the cost of distance is time taken in delivering final and intermediate goods. We argue that time costs are qualitatively different from direct monetary costs such as freight charges. The difference arises because of uncertainty. Unsynchronised deliveries can disrupt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884687