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Service Offshoring and Productivity : Evidence from the United States

Amiti, Mary - 2006

paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000. It finds … that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 10 percent of … labor productivity growth during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the …

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Volatility, employment and the patterns of FDI in emerging markets

Aizenman, Joshua - 2002

even for risk neutral multinationals, as their profit function is non-linear due to price and productivity effects. For … of productivity shocks in an emerging market producing the intermediate inputs reduces the multinationals' expected … in each country to productivity shocks, channeling the average employment from the more to the less volatile location …

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Trade Liberalization and Embedded Institutional Reform : Evidence from Chinese Exporters

Khandelwal, Amit K. - 2011

that this dominance is inconsistent with use of a productivity-based allocation of quota licenses by the Chinese government …. Our counterfactual implies that elimination of misallocated quotas raised the overall productivity gain of quota removal …

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International Evidence of Strengthening Taxes and Spending For Sustainable Development

Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Hien Nguyen; Park, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We trace the linkages between the episodes of fiscal expansion and consolidation in 72 advanced and emerging and developing economies. The findings suggest that fiscal expansions are positively associated with economic growth, which in turn is positively linked with better sustainable...

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Country Risk and Incentives Schemes

Aizenman, Joshua - 1986

The purpose of this paper is to address the role of endogenous default penalties that are contingent upon the intensity of default on the part of the borrowing nation, and to evaluate the effects of contingency plans that make the interest rate dependent upon variables that are correlated with...

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Labor Markets and the Choice of Technology in an Open Developing Economy

Aizenman, Joshua - 1986

degree to which real wages and productivity depend on external factors while at the …expected productivity gains, the investment cost associated with the modern …

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The Composition Matters : Capital Inflows and Liquidity Crunch during a Global Economic Crisis

Tong, Hui - 2009

International capital flows, while potentially beneficial, are said to increase a country's vulnerability to crisis - especially if they are skewed to non-FDI types. This paper studies whether the volume and composition of capital flows affect the degree of credit crunch faced by a country's...

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The Value of Making Commitments Externally : Evidence from WTO Accessions

Tang, Man-Keung - 2008

This paper studies the value of external commitment to policy reforms in the case of WTO/GATT accessions. The accessions often entail reforms that go beyond narrowly defined trade liberalization, and have to overcome fierce resistance in the acceding countries, as reflected in protracted...

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Aid Volatility and Poverty Traps

Agénor, Pierre-Richard - 2007

This paper studies the impact of aid volatility in a two-period model where production may occur with either a traditional or a modern technology. Public spending is productive and "time to build" requires expenditure in both periods for the modern technology to be used. The possibility of a...

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Large Hoarding of International Reserves and the Emerging Global Economic Architecture

Aizenman, Joshua - 2007

This paper analyzes competing interpretations for the large increases in the hoarding of international reserves by developing countries. While the first phase of the rapid hoarding of reserves in the aftermath of the East Asian crisis has been dominated by self insurance against exposure to...

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