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Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in China : A Political Economy Approach

Branstetter, Lee G. - 1999

We view the political process in China as trading off the social benefits of increased trade and foreign direct … of this model are estimated using province-level data on foreign direct investment and trade flows in China, over the … China may find it politically difficult to follow through with liberalizing its trade and investment regimes, such as under …

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China's growing role in world trade

Feenstra, Robert C. (ed.); Wei, Shang-jin (contributor) - 2010

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Business Groups and Trade in East Asia : Part 2, Product Variety

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1997

We analyze the impact of market structure on the trade performance of South Korea, Taiwan and Japan. Korea has many large, vertically-integrated business groups known as chaebol, whereas business groups in Taiwan are smaller and more specialized in the production of intermediate inputs. We test...

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Business Groups and Trade in East Asia : Part 1, Networked Equilibria

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1997

We propose an economic model of business groups that allows for the cooperative behavior of groups of firms, where the number and size of each group is determined endogenously. In this framework, more than one configuration of groups can arise in equilibrium: several different types of business...

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Market Structure and International Trade : Business Groups in East Asia

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1993

In this paper we study the effect of market structure on the trade performance of South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. We center our analysis on Korea and Taiwan, countries which have very different market structures: Korea has many large, vertically-integrated business groups known as chaebol,...

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Report on the State of Available Data for the Study of International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2010

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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Protectionist Threats and Foreign Direct Investment

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 1996

of 4-digit SIC level observations of Japanese manufacturing FDI into the United States in the 1980s to explore these …- acquisition FDI by the Japanese had success in defusing the threat of an escape clause investigation in future periods …

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Foreign Direct Investment and Relative Wages : Evidence from Mexico's Maquiladoras

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1995

In this paper, we examine the increase in the relative wages of skilled workers in Mexico during the 1980s. We argue that rising wage inequality in Mexico is linked to capital inflows from abroad. The effect of these capital inflows, which correspond to an increase in outsourcing by...

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Foreign Investment, Outsourcing and Relative Wages

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1995

In this paper we examine the reduction in the relative employment and wages of unskilled workers in the U.S. during the 1980's. We argue that a contributing factor to this decline was rising imports reflecting the outsourcing of production activities. In a theoretical model, we show that any...

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Capital Flows and Economic Growth in the Era of Financial Integration and Crisis, 1990-2010

Aizenman, Joshua - 2011

We investigate the relationship between economic growth and lagged international capital flows, disaggregated into FDI, portfolio investment, equity investment, and short-term debt. We follow about 100 countries during 1990-2010 when emerging markets became more integrated into the international...

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