The purpose of this paper is to contribute some new measurements to t112 discussion of trends in the terms of trade … the generally used UN unit value indexes. The decline in terms of trade for these goods relative to primary products has … been almost 50 per cent over this period. Over tile last hundred years, fluctuations in the terms of trade of manufactured …

Measures of long term trends in world export prices of manufactured goods and in the terms of trade between … prices. Conservative estimates of the bias in the most commonly used measure of export prices of manufactured products, the … United Nations export unit value index for manufactures, suggest that this measure overstates the long-run rise in …

manufactures over the 15 years or so after the mid-1960's, the export shares of their multinational firms stayed fairly stable or …. These developments suggest that the declining trade shares of the U.S. and Sweden were not due mainly to deterioration in … Sweden, and in all industry groups, with one exception, the multinationals' export shares increased relative to those of …

U.S.-owned manufacturing affiliates in foreign countries tended to become more export-oriented between 1966 and 1977 … affiliate activities in almost all cases. The most export-oriented were subsidiaries in machinery industries in Southeast Asia …, however, and high rates of affiliate export growth were associated with rapid growth of host country GDP and exports …

assumptions have until very recently usually been made about it. We refer to the relation of exchange rate changes, export prices … in the exchange rate might also alter the relationship between the export price and the domestic price of a given product … theory of international trade and more recently explicitly by advocates of the monetary approach to the balance of payments …

construction of trade models that a country's export price for a particular product is identical to its domestic price. Any impact … of foreign or domestic events on prices is expected to fall identically on the export and the domestic price for a good … are fairly substantial and long-lasting divergences between export and domestic price changes for the same or closely …

direct investment by U.S. firms and the export trade of the United States, a subject of bitter controversy for at least the … last fifteen years. Changes over time in trade flows and trade balances are influenced by trends in productivity in the … changes, the effects of which on trade probably swamp any that might stem from changes in the level of direct investment, One …

The relationship between direct investment and trade has always been recognized as one of the most difficult aspects of …

. First, the relationships between Japanese export levels and employment in foreign affiliates of Japanese MNCs are analyzed …, the paper examines the effects of the presence of affiliates of U.S. MNCs on Japanese export levels. And third, it …