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U.S. Foreign Trade and the Balance of Payments, 1800-1913

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1994

This paper reviews the main developments in U.S. trade and the balance of payments from the first years of the 19th century to the first decade of the 20th. American export trade was dominated by agricultural and other resource products long after the majority of the labor force had shifted out...

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Foreign Direct Investment in the U.S. and U.S. Trade

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1991

Foreign-owned manufacturing firms' shares of U.S. trade grew from almost nothing in the 1960s to 7 or 8 per cent of trade in manufactured goods by the 1980s. It has changed little in the past decade, except for fluctuations related to changing U.S. exchange rates. Foreign-owned firms are less...

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What Do Rich Countries Trade with Each Other? R&D and the Composition of U.S. and Swedish Trade

Blomstrom, Magnus - 1989

A long tradition in international economics explains comparative advantage by differences between countries in their stage of development, or their endowments of land, labor, and capital, and suggests that universal development will reduce the importance of trade. Sweden and the United States...

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Outward FDI and Parent Exports and Employment : Japan, the United States, and Sweden

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000

Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production … in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income …

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Price Behavior in the Light of Balance of Payments Theories

Kravis, Irving B. - 1977

The purpose of this paper is to describe the behavior of that subset of prices and price indexes that is relevant to the theory of balance of payments adjustment. The theoretical writings on the balance of payments may be viewed at this juncture as falling into two main groups -- the "standard"...

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Affiliates of U.S. and Japanese Multinationals in East Asian Production and Trade

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000

Since 1977, and in some cases starting before that, most East Asian countries' export patterns in manufacturing have been transformed from industry distributions typical of developing countries to distributions more like those of advanced countries. The process of change in most cases started...

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Affiliate Activity in Japanese and U.S. Multinationals and Japanese Exports, 1986-1995

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2001

This study examines the relationship between Japan's manufactured exports to individual markets and the economic … in the context of a typical gravity model explaining the cross-country variation of Japan's manufacturing exports. Second …. The level of Japan's manufactured exports to a country is almost always positively related to employment in foreign …

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U.S. and Swedish Direct Investment and Exports

Blomstrom, Magnus - 1987

Overseas production in a country by affiliates of Swedish and U.S. firms rarely appears to displace exports from the two home countries and in most cases either has no effect or tends to increase home country exports. The positive effect on Swedish exports is evident not only with respect to...

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Topics in empirical international economics : a festschrift in honor of Robert E. Lipsey

Blomström, Magnus (ed.); Lipsey, Robert E. (honouree); … - 2001

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Foreign Production by U.S. Firms and Parent Firm Employment

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1999

Despite the persistent fears that production abroad by U.S. multinationals reduces employment at home, there has, in fact, been almost no aggregate shift of production or employment to foreign countries. Some continuing shifts to foreign locations by U.S. manufacturing firms have been largely...

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