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Competitiveness - A Comparison of China and Mexico

Nowak-Lehmann, Felicitas - 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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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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Political Connections, State Ownership and Productivity in China

Harris, Richard I. D. - 2017

Subordination of business to political influence has remains pervasive in China. We construct a Schumpeterian-type model of growth with managerial time allocation between productive activities and building up political connections. The model predicts the impact of different patterns of state...

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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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Do Multinationals Transfer Culture? Evidence on Female Employment in China

Tang, Heiwai - 2017

We study the global diffusion of culture through multinationals, focusing on gender norms. Using data on manufacturing firms in China over 2004-2007, we find that foreign affiliates from countries with a more gender-equal culture tend to employ proportionally more women and appoint female...

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Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Domestic Competition, and Inflation : Evidence from the 2005/08 Revaluation of the Renminbi

Auer, Raphael - 2015

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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Substitutability and Protectionism : Latin America's Trade Policy and Imports from China and India

Facchini, Giovanni; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Silva, Peri A.; … - 2021

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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Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Domestic Competition, and Inflation: Evidence from the 2005/08 Revaluation of the Renminbi

Auer, Raphael A. - CESifo - 2012

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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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The Clan and the Corporation : Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe

Greif, Avner - 2015

Over the last millennium, the clan and the corporation have been the loci of cooperation in China and Europe respectively. This paper examines - analytically and historically - the cultural and institutional co-evolution that led to this bifurcation. We highlight that groups with which...

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