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In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms usually earn their highest market share within their domestic market. The goal of this paper is to disentangle the supply- and demand-driven sources of the home market advantage. While trade costs, foreign production costs, and...
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world. The commodity distributionof trade has moved toward being in large part an exchange of U.S. manufactured goods for ….S.share of world trade which began around 1950 has slowed down or evenstopped, as has the fall in the terms of trade of the …
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This report, prepared for the Committee on Economic Statistics of the American Economic Association, examines the state of available data for the study of international trade and foreign direct investment. Data on values of imports and exports of goods are of high quality and coverage, but price...
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As production comes to depend more on intangible productive assets, the location of production by multinational firms becomes increasingly ambiguous. The reason is that, within the firm, these assets have no clear geographical location, but only a nominal location determined by the firm's tax or...
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about 4.5% of world output in 1970 to over 7% in 1995. The importance of internationalized output fell substantially in … 1995. Outside of petroleum and manufacturing, internationalized production was of little importance. For the world as a …
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over the last two decades, but it was still, in 1990, only about 7 percent of world output. The share was higher, at 15 …,' which are about 60 percent of world output. Given all the attention that 'globalization' has received from scholars …
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Given the level of its production in the U.S., a firm that produces more abroad tends to have fewer employees in the U.S. and to pay slightly higher salaries and wages to them. The most likely explanation seems to be that the larger a firm's foreign production, the greater its ability to...
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international capital flows, and the resulting production has increased as a share of world output, but it was still only about 8 … world, accounting for about half of the world's stock in 1960. Since then, other countries have become major direct … investors. The U.S. share is now less than a quarter of the world total and the United States has become a major recipient of …
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absorbing much of the world's supply, especially in the late 1980s, and then reverted to its earlier net supplier role. Direct …
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