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This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern - horizontal versus vertica l- within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture trade...
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, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam rode the tide, while other countries, many in the Africa region, faltered. This paper …
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estimate direct and indirect domestic value added in exports of different types of firm. We find that in China, both state … downstream within industries. These findings suggest that SOEs still play an important role in shaping China's exports. …
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supply chains - and how this decision affects performance. We exploit matched customs and balance-sheet data from China …
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The cost of complying with a sanitary standard is certain. However, such regulatory measure is a source of uncertainty for exporting firms in relation to border rejections. Shipments may fail to pass inspections and may be refused entry into the importing country. We examine how the risk of...
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matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese … production stages conducted in China over the 1992-2014 period, both in the aggregate and within firms over time. Firms span more …
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contribution to the growth in foreign intermediate goods in the 2001-2014 period. China has strongly contributed to the rise in … Labour Force Survey and obtain a dataset of 12 European countries and 2001-2007 period. I show that IT imports from China are … be attributed to the trade with China. …
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This paper examines the impact of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic on China’s trade. Using …
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Special and Differential Treatment for Developing Countries (SDT) constitutes a central feature of the GATT/WTO system. Its formal goal is to foster export-led growth in developing countries. Its theoretical foundations and empirical support are, however, weak at best. In particular, SDT...
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We investigate the empirical determinants of China's outward direct investment (ODI). It is found that China … developed and developing countries, there is evidence that a) both market seeking and resources seeking motives drive China …'s ODI, b) the Chinese exports to developing countries induce China's ODI, c) China's international reserves promote its ODI …
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