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U.S. Foreign Trade and the Balance of Payments, 1800-1913

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2022

This paper reviews the main developments in U.S. trade and the balance of payments from the first years of the 19th century to the first decade of the 20th. American export trade was dominated by agricultural and other resource products long after the majority of the labor force had shifted out...

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U.S. Firms in Latin American Service Industries

Blomström, Magnus; Lipsey, Robert E. - 2021

The participation of U.S. service industry firms in Latin American markets for services consists mainly of the activities of U.S.-owned affiliates operating in Latin America and very little of direct exports of ser- vices from the U.S. The important policy issues thus involve barriers to the...

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What Do Rich Countries Trade with Each Other? R&D and the Composition of U.S. And Swedish Trade

Blomstrom, Magnus - 2010

A long tradition in international economics explains comparative advantage by differences between countries in their stage of development, or their endowments of land, labor, and capital, and suggests that universal development will reduce the importance of trade. Sweden and the United States...

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Outward FDI and Parent Exports and Employment : Japan, the United States, and Sweden

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2007

Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production … in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income …

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Affiliates of U.S. And Japanese Multinationals in East Asian Production and Trade

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2021

Since 1977, and in some cases starting before that, most East Asian countries' export patterns in manufacturing have been transformed from industry distributions typical of developing countries to distributions more like those of advanced countries. The process of change in most cases started...

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Affiliate Activity in Japanese and U.S. Multinationals and Japanese Exports, 1986-1995

Lipsey, Robert E.; Ramstetter, Eric D. - 2022

This study examines the relationship between Japan's manufactured exports to individual markets and the economic … in the context of a typical gravity model explaining the cross-country variation of Japan's manufacturing exports. Second …. The level of Japan's manufactured exports to a country is almost always positively related to employment in foreign …

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Recent Trends in U.S. Trade and Investment

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2021

United States andother developed countries.The U.S. share of new direct investment outflows has fallen while that of Japan …

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National price levels and the prices of tradables and nontradables

Kravis, Irving B. - In: The American economic review 78 (1988) 2, pp. 474-478

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Foreign-Owned Firms and U.S. Wages

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2021

Foreign-owned establishments in the United States pay higher wages, on average, than domestically-owned establishments. The foreign-owned establishments tend to be in higher-wage industries and also to pay higher wages within industries. They tend to locate in lower-wage states, but to pay more...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Employment : Home Country Experience in the United States and Sweden

Blomström, Magnus; Fors, Gunnar; Lipsey, Robert E. - 2021

We compare the relation between foreign affiliate production and parent employment in U.S. manufacturing multinationals with that in Swedish firms. U.S. multinationals appear to have allocated some of their more labor intensive operations selling in world markets to affiliates in developing...

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