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China'S Integration Into the World Economy : Implications for Developing Countries

Yang, Yongzheng - 2003

Although the rest of the world had waited a long time for China to open up, feelings were mixed when it actually did and began to integrate rapidly with the world economy. With the country’s recent accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), many of its trading partners are increasingly...

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Measuring competitiveness in a world of global value chains

Bayoumi, Tamim A.; Appendino, Maximiliano; Barkema, Jelle; … - 2018

All common real effective exchange rate indexes assume trade is only in final goods, despite the growing presence of global supply chains. Extending effective exchange rate indexes to include such intermediate goods can imply radically different effective exchange rate weights, depending on the...

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Globalization Drives Strategic Product Switching

Moreno Badia, Marialuz - 2008

Using firm-level data for Estonia for the years 1997-2005, we analyze the impact of international competition on firm … explicitly the role of export opportunities. Our results indicate that globalization does not affect firm exit significantly but …

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Trade, jobs, and inequality

Beaton, Kimberly; Cerra, Valerie; Hadzi-Vaskov, Metodij - 2021

This paper examines the impact of trade on employment, wages, and other outcomes across countries and explores the conditions and policies that help spread the gains from trade more evenly throughout the population. We exploit a large global firm-level dataset to examine the impact of import...

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International knowledge spillovers

Eugster, Johannes L.; Ho, Giang; Jaumotte, Florence; … - 2018

How important is foreign knowledge for domestic innovation outcomes? How is this relation shaped by globalization and … the attendant intensification of international competition? Our empirical approach extends the previous literature by … domestic innovation. Controlling for the amount of domestic R and D, we find evidence that increases in international …