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How Much of Chinese Exports is Really Made in China? Assessing Domestic Value-Added When Processing Trade is Pervasive
Koopman, Robert - 2010
The rise of China in world trade has brought both benefits and anxiety to other economies. For many policy questions …. By our estimation, the share of domestic content in exports by the PRC was about 50% before China's WTO membership, and …
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Institutions and Foreign Investment : China Versus the World
Fan, Joseph P. H. - 2013
Weak institutions ought to deter foreign direction investment (FDI), and mass media stories highlight China …'s institutional deficiencies, yet China is now one of the world's largest FDI destinations. This incongruity characterizes China …'s paradoxical growth. Cross-country regressions show that China's FDI inflow is not exceptionally large, given the quality of its …
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Fragmentation and Trade in Value Added Over Four Decades
Johnson, Robert C. - 2012
We combine data on trade, production, and input use to compute the value added content of trade for forty-two countries from 1970 to 2009. For the world, the ratio of value added to gross trade falls by ten to fifteen percentage points, with two-thirds of this decline in the last two decades....
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Organizing the Global Value Chain
Antras, Pol - 2012
We develop a property-rights model of the firm in which production entails a continuum of uniquely sequenced stages. In each stage, a final-good producer contracts with a distinct supplier for the procurement of a customized stage-specific component. Our model yields a sharp characterization for...
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The Micro Origins of International Business Cycle Comovement
di Giovanni, Julian - 2016
This paper investigates the role of individual firms in international business cycle comovement using data covering the universe of French firm-level value added, bilateral imports and exports, and cross-border ownership over the period 1993-2007. At the micro level, controlling for firm and...
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Measures of Participation in Global Value Chains and Global Business Cycles
Wang, Zhi - 2017
This paper makes two methodological contributions. First, it proposes a framework to decompose total production activities at the country, sector, or country-sector level, to different types, depending on whether they are for pure domestic demand, traditional international trade, simple GVC...
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A Portrait of Trade in Value Added Over Four Decades
Johnson, Robert C. - 2016
We combine data on trade, production, and input use to document changes in the value added content of trade between 1970 and 2009. The ratio of value-added to gross exports fell by roughly 10 percentage points worldwide. The ratio declined 20 percentage points in manufacturing, but rose in...
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Foreign Firms and Local Communities
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2012
evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that foreign-owned firms would prefer to use corporate social responsibility (CSR …) activities on a more international scale, but will strategically use CSR activities for public relation motives when the MNE …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114291
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The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms
Alfaro, Laura - 2010
The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly transforming the global landscape of industrial production. But are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What drives the offshore agglomeration of multinational firms in comparison to...
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International R&D Spillovers and Institutions
Coe, David T. - 2010
The empirical analysis in quot;International Ramp;D Spilloversquot; (Coe and Helpman, 1995) is first revisited by applying modern panel cointegration estimation techniques to an expanded data set that we have constructed for the purpose of this study. The new estimates confirm the key results...
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