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Joskow, Paul L.; Tirole, Jean - 2021

We examine the performance attributes of a merchant transmission investment framework that relies on market driven' transmission investment to provide the infrastructure to support competitive wholesale markets for electricity. Under a stringent set of assumptions, the merchant investment model...

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Supplier Responses to Wal-Mart's Invasion of Mexico

Iacovone, Leo - 2011

This paper examines the effect of Wal-Mart's entry into Mexico on Mexican manufacturers of consumer goods. Guided by firm interviews that suggested substantial heterogeneity across firms in how they responded to Wal-Mart's entry, we develop a dynamic industry model in which firms decide whether...

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Endogenous Market Structure and Foreign Market Entry

Markusen, James R.; Stähler, Frank - 2021

Models dealing with cross-border acquisitions versus greenfield investment usually assume that the entry of a foreign firm into a market has effects on the outputs of all domestic firms in that market, but exit or entry of local firms is not considered. The purpose of this paper is to re-examine...

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Spillovers, Foreign Investment, and Export Behavior

Aitken, Brian; Hanson, Gordon H.; Harrison, Ann E. - 2021

Case studies of export behavior suggest that firms who penetrate foreign markets reduce entry costs for other potential exporters, either through learning by doing or through establishing buyer- supplier linkages. We pursue the idea that spillovers associated with one firm's export activity...

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Quid Pro Quo, Knowledge Spillover, and Industrial Quality Upgrading : Evidence from the Chinese Auto Industry

Bai, Jie; Barwick, Panle Jia; Cao, Shengmao; Li, Shanjun - 2022

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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A Comment on Nishimura, Nakajima, and Kiyota's "Does the Natural Selection Mechanism Still Work in Severe Recessions? Examination of the Japanese Economy in the 1990s"

Okada, Tae - 2007

Nishimura et al. (2005) analyze the entry/exit behavior of Japanese firms during the 1990s and find that relatively efficient firms exited while relatively inefficient firms survived during the banking-crisis period of 1996-97. They conclude that the natural selection mechanism (NSM) apparently...

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Local Academic Science Driving Organizational Change : the Adoption of Biotechnology by Japanese Firms

Darby, Michael R.; Zucker, Lynne G. - 2021

existing firms or -- much more frequently -- exploited by new entrants in the U.S. In Japan this new dominant technology has … organizational change is necessary for incumbent firms to remain competitive and, ultimately, to survive. Japan's sharply higher … organizational change/new entry ratio compared to the U.S. during the biotech revolution is related to Japan's relatively compact …

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Implementing Market Access

Krishna, Kala; Roy, Suddhasatwa; Thursby, Marie C. - 2022

The outcome of trade policies to increase access for foreign firms to the home country's market is shown to be sensitive to the implementation procedure used. The importance of the timing of moves between government and firms is highlighted by focusing on taxes and subsidies to implement minimum...

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Implementing Results-Oriented Trade Policies : The Case of the Us-Japanese Auto Parts Dispute

Krishna, Kala; Morgan, John - 2022

Why would the US threaten punitive tariffs on luxury autos to implement a market share target in auto parts? We show that by making threats to a linked market, a market share may be implemented with fairly weak informa- tional and administrative requirements. Moreover, such policies can be both...

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Protectionist Threats and Foreign Direct Investment

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2012

The recent literature on quid pro quo foreign direct investment (FDI) suggests that FDI may be induced by the threat of protection, and further, that FDI may be used as an instrument to defuse a protectionist threat. This paper uses a panel data set of 4-digit SIC level observations of Japanese...

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