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World market access of emerging-market firms : the role of foreign ownership and access to external finance

Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2013

This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for...

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Openness, intermediate imports and growth

Kopp, Andreas - 2000

We consider two channels via which foreign inputs into industrial production may lead to productivity effects. The first one concerns dynamic externalities between firms which share technical and organizational knowledge which is vital for the productivity growth of a particular industry. We...

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On trade policy preference and offshoring ties

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2022

This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric...

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Trade policy uncertainty, offshoring, and the environment : evidence from US manufacturing establishments

Choi, Jaerim; Hyun, Jay; Kim, Gueyon; Park, Ziho - 2023

pollution haven hypothesis whereby offshoring is central to the mechanism - US manufacturers begin to source from abroad and …

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FDI and Growth in East Asia: Lessons for Indonesia

Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2010

Foreign direct investment has been important in the economic growth and global economic integration of developing countries over the last decades. Both Northeast and Southeast Asia, especially the latter, have been part of this development with increasing inflows of FDI and greater foreign...

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South-South FDI and Development in East Asia

Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2011

This paper attempts to measure the size of South-South FDI in developing East Asia and the trends in it, and the characteristics of the investing countries and the investments themselves. It also summarizes the findings of studies in individual countries of the effects of these investments. The...

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Foreign direct investment and environmental taxes

De Santis, Roberto A.; Stähler, Frank - 2000

This paper discusses environmental policies in response to foreign direct investment (FDI) in a symmetrie two-country setting, where firms' behavior affects government policy decisions. We show that two alternative equilibria with FDI are possible: (i) one with unilateral FDI, where one firm is...

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Globalization of the world economy : what happened in 1985?

Kleinert, Jörn - 2000

This paper brings forward a three-country model to analyze the internationalization process in the age of globalization. It is shown that investment of one company increases not only the incentive to invest in another country for every national competitor but for third country's companies as...

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Offshoring and labor markets

Hummels, David; Munch, Jakob Roland; Chong, Xiang - 2016

In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and … displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements … of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for production (vs. final goods for consumption); that it involves …

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The role of institutions and immigrant networks in firms' offshoring decisions

Moriconi, Simone; Peri, Giovanni; Pozzoli, Dario - 2018

The offshoring of production by multinational firms has expanded dramatically in recent decades, increasing these firms … probability. We also show that a firm's probability of offshoring increases with the share of its employees who are immigrants …

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