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NAFTA and drug-related violence in Mexico
Hidalgo, Eduardo; Hornung, Erik; Selaya, Pablo - 2022
We study how NAFTA changed the geography of violence in Mexico. We propose that this open border policy increased …
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The impact of NAFTA on prices and competition : evidence from Mexican manufacturing plants
Kikkawa, Ayumu Ken; Mei, Yuan; Santamarina, Pablo Robles - 2019 - This version: April 3, 2019
This paper assesses the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement on Mexican manufacturing plants' prices and markups. We distinguish between Mexican goods that are exported and those sold domestically, and decompose their prices separately into markups and marginal costs. We then...
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On the political economy of high skilled migration and international trade
Bougheas, Spiros P.; Nelson, Douglas R. - 2012
We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade where policy is determined by a simple referendum. In particular, we address two questions. First, are states already in free trade areas more likely to support full integration...
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Putting Canada in the penalty box : trade and welfare effects of eliminating NAFTA
Baier, Scott L.; Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Bruno, John P. - 2019
threat President Trump has made if the proposed United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement is not passed by the U.S. Congress. We ….S. withdrawal only). Although all the member countries' standards of living fall, surprisingly the smallest economy, Mexico, is not … times that of Mexico's loss of 1.15 percent and is nearly eight times the United States' loss of 0.27 percent. The …
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Vertical foreign direct investment : make, sell and (not) buy
Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Sandonís, Joel - 2016
According to conventional wisdom, multinational firms undertake vertical FDI in order to take advantage of cross-border factor cost differences and source the inputs from abroad at better terms. Recent empirical findings though document that this is not always the case. We provide theoretical...
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Domestic value added in exports : theory and firm evidence from China
Kee, Hiau Looi; Tang, Heiwai - 2015
China has defied the declining trend in domestic content in exports in many countries. We study China's rising domestic content in exports using firm- and customs transaction-level data. Our approach embraces firm heterogeneity and hence reduces aggregation bias. We find that the substitution of...
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Globalization and state capitalism : assessing Vietnam's accession to the WTO
Baccini, Leonardo; Impullitti, Giammario; Malesky, Edmund - 2017
What do state-owned enterprises (SOEs) do? How do they respond to market incentives? Can we expect substantial efficiency gains from trade liberalization in economies with a strong presence of SOEs? Using a new dataset of Vietnamese firms we document a set of empirical regularities...
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Trade and investment in the global economy
Anderson, James E.; Larch, Mario; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2017
We develop a dynamic multi-country trade model with foreign direct investment (FDI) in the form of non-rival technology capital. The model nests structural gravity subsystems for FDI and trade, with accumulation/decumulation of phyisical and technology capital in transition to the steady state....
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The life-cycle dynamics of exporters and multinational firms
Gumpert, Anna; Moxnes, Andreas; Ramondo, Natalia; … - 2017
This paper studies the life-cycle dynamics of exporters and multinational enterprises (MNEs). We present a dynamic model of trade and MNE activity in which the mode of serving a market depends on the well-known proximity-concentration tradeoff. We show that the option of performing MNE...
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Deep trade agreements and FDI in partial and general equilibrium : a structural estimation framework
Larch, Mario; Yotov, Yoto - 2022
We quantify the relationships between deep trade liberalization and foreign direct investment (FDI). To this end, we focus on the effects of Deep Trade Agreements (DTAs), and we rely on a structural framework that simultaneously enables us to (i) estimate the direct impact of DTAs on FDI, (ii)...
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