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A Heckscher-Ohlin View of Sweden Competing in the Global Market
Leamer, Edward E.; Lundborg, Per - 2021
In this paper we explore the hypothesis that the Swedish malaise comes from the interaction of the Swedish welfare state with changes in the global marketplace. External commerce can expose Swedish workers in exporting and import-competing industries to competition from low-wage foreign workers...
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The Competitiveness and Comparative Advantage of U.S. Multinationals, 1957-1983
Lipsey, Robert E.; Kravis, Irving B. - 2021
The share in world exports of manufactured goods of U.S. multinational firms, including their majority-owned overseas …
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U.S. Multinationals and Competition from Low Wage Countries
Riker, David A.; Brainard, S. Lael - 2022
It is often argued that the globalization of production places workers in industrialized countries in competition with their counterparts in low wage countries. We examine a firm-level panel of foreign manufacturing affiliates owned by U.S. multinationals between 1983 and 1992 and find evidence...
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Technological Characteristics of Industries and the Competitiveness of the U.S. And its Multinational Firms
Kravis, Irving - 2010
The share of U.S. multinational firms in world exports of manufactures has remained almost constant at about 17 per … cent for the last 20 years while that of the U.S. as a country has declined substantially. The composition of world … during the period than did the world as a whole, and the Asian NIC's exports moved still faster in this direction. With …
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Industrial Policy and Downstream Export Performance
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2013
Industrial policies (IPs) include such varying practices as production subsidies, export subsidies, and import protection, and are commonly used by countries to promote targeted sectors. However, such policies can have significant impacts on sectors other than those targeted by the IPs,...
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International Prices and Endogenous Quality
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2013
will be incorporated into the next generation of the Penn World Table …
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Beyond Competitive Devaluations : The Monetary Dimensions of Comparative Advantage
Bergin, Paul R. - 2019
Motivated by the long-standing debate on the pros and cons of competitive devaluation, we propose a new perspective on how monetary and exchange rate policies can contribute to a country's international competitiveness. We refocus the analysis on the implications of monetary stabilization for a...
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The Determinants of National Competitiveness
Delgado, Mercedes - 2016
We define foundational competitiveness as the expected level of output per working-age individual that is supported by the overall quality of a country as a place to do business. The focus on output per potential worker, a broader measure of national productivity than output per current worker,...
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Prices and Market Shares in the International Machinery Trade
Kravis, Irving B.; Lipsey, Robert E.; Bushe, Dennis M. - 2021
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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International Competitiveness and Monetary Policy : Strategic Policy and Coordination with a Production Relocation Externality
Bergin, Paul R. - 2013
Can a country gain international competitiveness by the design of optimal monetary stabilization rules? This paper reconsiders this question by specifying an open-economy monetary model encompassing a 'production relocation externality,' developed in trade theory to analyze the benefits from...
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