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While there is a vast body of research on the benefits of FDI in developing countries, whether and how the form of FDI matters have received limited attention. This paper studies the impact of FDI via quid pro quo (technology for market access) on facilitating knowledge spillover and quality...
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Are location-specific factors--such as the education and attitude of the local workforce, supplier networks, institutional infrastructure, and local "culture"--important for understanding persistent heterogeneities among firms? We address this question in the context of the automobile industry....
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In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms usually earn their highest market share within their domestic market. The goal of this paper is to disentangle the supply- and demand-driven sources of the home market advantage. While trade costs, foreign production costs, and...
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subcontracting. `Illegal' trade between China and Taiwan has been induced by Taiwan's `no direct trade' policy. Illegal trade such as …China's trade has three features: high incidence of re-exports through Hong Kong, high degree of trade related to ….S. data and accounting for re-exports, the U.S.-China trade balance has to be lowered by 35 percent. Foreign investments in …
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tremendous growth in sales---over 200 percent from 2008 to 2015---and concerns over local air quality have prompted China … behavior to China's largest national subsidy program for fuel efficient vehicles during 2010 and 2011. Using variation from the …
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Using a randomized experiment with an automobile manufacturing firm in China, we measure the effects of letting workers …
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In this paper, we study the effects of FDI on domestic employment by examining the data of Taiwan's manufacturing … employment is a combination of substitution and output effects. For Taiwan, the net effect is positive in most cases but it …
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sectoral pattern of multinational activity. Using detailed customs data from China, we show that foreign affiliates and joint …
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best, particularly in comparison with that of China. Comparing these countries and reviewing the literature, we conclude … gained from trade, and by some measures, more so than China. We sketch out a theory in which developing countries can grow … continuing reforms, Chinese growth is likely to slow down sharply, perhaps leaving China at a level less than Mexico's real GDP …
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Each of the world's largest retailers---Walmart, Carrefour, Tesco, and Metro---entered China after 1995. Their … subsequent expansion in China may have influenced Chinese exports through two channels. First, they may have enhanced bilateral …
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