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U.S. Firms in Latin American Service Industries
Blomstrom, Magnus - 1987
The participation of U.S. service industry firms in Latin American markets for services consists mainly of the activities of U.S.-owned affiliates operating in Latin America and very little of direct exports of ser- vices from the U.S. The important policy issues thus involve barriers to the...
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Globalization, Growth and Crises : The View from Latin America
Edwards, Sebastian - 2008
In this paper I analyze the role of openness and globalization in Latin America's economic development. The paper is …
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Globalization in Latin America Before 1940
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2003
globalization? Why was industrialization so weak? Why was inequality on the rise? This paper offers an answer to these questions. It … massive de-globalization during the decades of lost growth' between the 1820s and the 1870s. Next, it documents what happened … World War I, while it fell thereafter. The correlation between globalization and inequality is likely to have been causal …
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Globalization and Inequality in Latin America
Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Kovak, Brian K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on … dimensions of inequality, and developing new methodologies to capture the many facets of globalization's relationship to … that focus on distinct aspects of globalization's relationship to inequality …
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Populism and the Economics of Globalization
Rodrik, Dani - 2017
history and economic theory both provide ample grounds for anticipating that advanced stages of economic globalization would … different reactions are related to the relative salience of different types of globalization shocks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455123
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Internationalization and the evolution of corporate valuation
Levine, Ross - 2005
"By documenting the evolution of Tobin's "q" before, during, and after firms internationalize, this paper provides evidence on the bonding, segmentation, and market timing theories of internationalization. Using new data on 9,096 firms across 74 countries over the period 1989-2000, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522397
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Challenges to globalization : analyzing the economics
Baldwin, Robert E. (ed.) - 2004
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Combinatorial Discrete Choice : A Quantitative Model of Multinational Location Decisions
Arkolakis, Costas; Eckert, Fabian; Shi, Rowan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We introduce a general quantifiable framework to study the location decisions of multinational firms. In the model, firms choose in which locations to pay the fixed costs of setting up production, taking into account potential complementarities among production locations. The firm's location...
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Internationalized Production in Developed and Developing Countries and in Industry Sectors
Lipsey, Robert E. - 1998
Internationalized production, that is, production in a country controlled by firms based in another country, grew from about 4.5% of world output in 1970 to over 7% in 1995. The importance of internationalized output fell substantially in developing countries until around 1990 but has been been...
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Internationalized Production in World Output
Lipsey, Robert E. - 1995
,' which are about 60 percent of world output. Given all the attention that 'globalization' has received from scholars …
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