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The Exchange Rate as an Industrial Policy
Ottonello, Pablo; Perez, Diego J.; Witheridge, William - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the role of exchange rates in industrial policy. We construct an open-economy macroeconomic framework with production externalities and show that the desirability of these policies critically depends on the dynamic patterns of externalities. When they are stronger in earlier stages of...
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Financial Versus Monetary Mercantilism-Long-run View of Large International Reserves Hoarding
Aizenman, Joshua - 2006
The sizable hoarding of international reserves by several East Asian countries has been frequently attributed to a modern version of monetary mercantilism -- hoarding international reserves in order to improve competitiveness. From a long-run perspective, manufacturing exporters in East Asia...
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Foreign direct investment
Froot, Kenneth (ed.) - 1993
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Are Commodity Futures Prices Barometers of the Global Economy?
Hu, Conghui - 2013
prices of East Asian economies including China, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. We find significant and positive …
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Market Access and International Competition : A Simulation Study of 16K Random Access Memories
Baldwin, Richard E. - 1986
ask the following question: how much did the apparent closure of the Japanese market to imports affect Japan's export … otherwise have been uncompetitive both at home and abroad. We find, however, that Japan's home market protection nonetheless … produced more costs than benefits for Japan …
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Going Soft : How the Rise of Software Based Innovation Led to the Decline of Japan's IT Industry and the Resurgence of Silicon Valley
Arora, Ashish - 2010
differential effects on the performance of the IT industries in the United States and Japan. Using a broad unbalanced panel of US …
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Implementing Results-Oriented Trade Policies : The Case of the US-Japanese Auto Parts Dispute
Krishna, Kala - 1996
Why would the US threaten punitive tariffs on luxury autos to implement a market share target in auto parts? We show that by making threats to a linked market, a market share may be implemented with fairly weak informa- tional and administrative requirements. Moreover, such policies can be both...
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Trade Politics and the Semiconductor Industry
Irwin, Douglas A. - 1994
Department) brought about a 1986 trade agreement in which the United States forced Japan to end the 'dumping' of semiconductors … 'affirmative action' for the industry in its efforts to sell more in Japan, but has been criticized as constituting 'export …
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The New Systems Competition
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2002
While the old systems competition took place with closed borders, globalisation has brought about a new type of systems competition that is driven by the mobility of factors of production. The new systems competition will likely imply the erosion of the European welfare state, induce a race to...
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Climate Policy under Cooperation and Competition between Regions with Spatial Heat Transport
Cai, Yongyang - 2018
We build a novel stochastic dynamic regional integrated assessment model (IAM) of the climate and economic system including a number of important climate science elements that are missing in most IAMs. These elements are spatial heat transport from the Equator to the Poles, sea level rise,...
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