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The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in International Capital Flows

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000

absorbing much of the world's supply, especially in the late 1980s, and then reverted to its earlier net supplier role. Direct …

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U.S.-Owned Affiliates and Host-Country Exports

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1982

U.S.-owned manufacturing affiliates in foreign countries tended to become more export-oriented between 1966 and 1977. The shift toward exporting characterized affiliates in most industries and most countries.The bulk of U.S.-owned production abroad continues to be for local sale in most...

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Prices and Market Shares in the International Machinery Trade

Kravis, Irving B. - 1980

We use new international price measures we have developed for machinery and transport equipment to explain changes in exports and export shares of the United States, Germany, and Japan. The effects of relative price changes on export shares are fairly large, producing relative quantity changes...

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Report on the State of Available Data for the Study of International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2010

This report, prepared for the Committee on Economic Statistics of the American Economic Association, examines the state of available data for the study of international trade and foreign direct investment. Data on values of imports and exports of goods are of high quality and coverage, but price...

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Measuring the Location of Production in a World of Intangible Productive Assets, FDI, and Intrafirm Trade

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2008

As production comes to depend more on intangible productive assets, the location of production by multinational firms becomes increasingly ambiguous. The reason is that, within the firm, these assets have no clear geographical location, but only a nominal location determined by the firm's tax or...

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Explaining Product Price Differences Across Countries

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2007

A substantial part of international differences in prices of individual products, both goods and services, can be explained by differences in per capita income, wage compression, or low wage dispersion among low-wage workers, and short-term exchange rate fluctuations. Higher per capita income is...

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Measuring International Trade in Services

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2006

World trade in services has recently been a little under $US2 trillion, about a quarter of world trade in goods. That …

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World Trade Flows : 1962-2000

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2005

.nber.org/data (International Trade Data, NBER-UN world trade data). Users must agree not to resell or distribute the data for 1984-2000. The data … United Nations classification. This dataset updates the Statistics Canada World Trade Database as described in Feenstra …

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Home and Host Country Effects of FDI

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2002

impact of FDI in promoting the growth of host country exports and linkages to the outside world is clearer. The major role of … transfer of knowledge of world markets and of ways of fitting into worldwide production networks, not visible in standard …

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Foreign Direct Investment and the Operations of Multinational Firms : Concepts, History, and Data

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2001

international capital flows, and the resulting production has increased as a share of world output, but it was still only about 8 … world, accounting for about half of the world's stock in 1960. Since then, other countries have become major direct … investors. The U.S. share is now less than a quarter of the world total and the United States has become a major recipient of …

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