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entry matters more than access to the rest of China, which is consistent with market fragmentation due to underdeveloped …
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Economists interested in location choices usually focus their attention on investments abroad. This neglects the fact that multinational enterprises continue to invest domestically while undertaking foreign expansion. This paper compares investments at home and abroad. Our firm-level dataset...
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This paper examines the importance of agglomeration economies and institutions vis-a-vis initial conditions and factor endowments in explaining the locational choice of foreign investors. Using a unique panel data set for 25 transition economies between 1990 and 1998, we find that the main...
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In the literature on exports and investment, most productive firms are seen to invest abroad. In the Helpman et al. (2004) model, costs of transportation play a critical role in the decision about whether to serve foreign customers by exporting, or by producing abroad. We consider the case of...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented collapse in global economic activity and trade. The crisis has also highlighted the role played by global value chains (GVC), with countries facing shortages of components vital to everything from health systems to everyday household goods....
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Over the last decade China's investment in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has increased substantially in volume …, we demonstrate that since mid-2010s China's overseas investment has tilted toward sectors where China has a comparative …. Moreover, China's rising overseas investment can be linked to the rebalancing of Chinese economy, and LAC stands to benefit …
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We explore the global footprint of Chinese banks and compare it with that of other bank nationalities. Chinese banks have become the largest cross-border creditors for almost half of all emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). Their global reach resembles that of banks from advanced...
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Investment has grown rapidly in China in recent years, reaching more than 40 percent of GDP. Despite good progress on …
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The recent wave of foreign investment in China''s banks and the prospects of further opening of the banking sector … under the WTO agreement suggest that foreign banks are likely to play an increasingly important role in China. This paper … investments in China''s banks have been minority shareholdings with very limited management involvement. The paper concludes that …
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One of the most significant recent developments in world trade has been the entry of China into the World Trade … Organization (WTO). This paper examines the implications of China''s WTO accession for India''s trade, using both econometrics and … computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. The paper analyzes how India stands to lose or gain from China''s WTO entry in terms …
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