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FDI Companies and the Indian Company Law: Regulations vs. Disclosures

ISID, Foreign Investments Study Team - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In India companies with substantial foreign direct investment can register as private companies irrespective of the size of their operation whether in India or abroad. Under the Indian company law private companies can prevent public access to certain critical information on their operations....

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Colonialism and Industrialization: Empirical Results

Alam, M. Shahid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998

This paper presents theory and evidence to show that imperialism was a major factor impeding the spread of the industrial revolution during the century ending in the 1950s. Two empirical results stand out. First, analysis of historical evidence shows that most sovereign countries were...

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Competitiveness: A comparison of China and Mexico

Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Vollmer, Sebastian; … - 2007

Latin American countries have lost competitiveness in world markets in comparison to China over the last two decades. The main purpose of this study is to examine the causes of this development. To this end an augmented Ricardian model is estimated using panel data. The explanatory variables...

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Substitutability and protectionism: Latin America's trade policy and imports from China and India

Facchini, Giovanni; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Silva, Peri; … - 2007

world markets. To explain higher protection in sectors where a large share is imported from these countries, we extend the … protection for sale' model to allow for different degrees of substitutability between domestically produced and imported … varieties. The extension suggests that higher levels of protection towards Chinese goods can be explained by high …

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Cutting through the Value Chain: The Long-Run Effects of Decoupling the East from the West

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Mahlkow, Hendrik; Sandkamp, … - 2022

With ever-increasing political tensions between China and Russia on one side and the EU and the US on the other, it only seems a matter of time until protectionist policies cause a decoupling of global value chains. This paper uses a computable general equilibrium trade model calibrated with the...

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Exchange rate pass-through, domestic competition, and inflation: Evidence from the 2005/08 revaluation of the Renminbi

Auer, Raphael A. - 2012

This paper quantifies the effect of the government-controlled appreciation of the Chinese renminbi (RMB) vis-à-vis the USD from 2005 to 2008 on the prices charged by US producers. As the RMB during that time was pegged to a basket of currencies, the empirical strategy must account for the fact...

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Trade model with an optimal exchange rate motivated by current discussion of a Chinese Renminbi float

Huang, Hui; Wang, Yi; Wang, Yiming; Whalley, John; … - 2005

We combine a model of combined inter-spatial and inter-temporal trade between countries recently – used by Huang, Whalley and Zhang (2004) to analyze the merits of trade liberalization in services when goods trade is restricted – with a model of foreign exchange rationing due to Clarete and...

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International economic theory and politics: world structure before, during and after the early 21st Century Crisis

Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith (1776) considered the phenomenon of division of labor so enormously significant for the creation of a nation’s wealth that he devoted the first three chapters of his book to an investigation of this process. This is...

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India's specialisation in IT exports: Offshoring can't defy gravity

Meyer, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

India’s actual export specialisation in IT services is unrivalled by any comparable country and it is evidence of a strong comparative advantage. This paper finds that India owes its IT specialisation in part to its reliance on offshoring - driven by the supply of well-educated,...

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Macroeconomic Change, and Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions: The Indian Experience, 1991-2010

Reddy, Kotapati Srinivasa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the market for cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CB-M&A) representing the Asian emerging market-India for the period 1991 through 2010. I also compare the market in India among the BRIC economies (Brazil, Russia and China (including Hong Kong)) for...

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