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U.S. Firms in Latin American Service Industries
Blomstrom, 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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Globalization, Growth and Crises : The View from Latin America
Edwards, Sebastian - 2008
In this paper I analyze the role of openness and globalization in Latin America's economic development. The paper is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771804
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Populism and the Economics of Globalization
Rodrik, Dani - 2017
history and economic theory both provide ample grounds for anticipating that advanced stages of economic globalization would … different reactions are related to the relative salience of different types of globalization shocks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952507
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Globalization in Latin America Before 1940
Bertola, Luis; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021
globalization? Why was industrialization so weak? Why was inequality on the rise? This paper offers an answer to these questions. It … massive de-globalization during the decades of lost growth' between the 1820s and the 1870s. Next, it documents what happened … World War I, while it fell thereafter. The correlation between globalization and inequality is likely to have been causal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222891
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Global Production and Trade in the Knowledge Economy
Keller, Wolfgang - 2014
This paper presents and tests a new model of multinational firms to explain a rich array of multinational behavior. In contrast to most approaches, here the multinational faces costs to transferring its know-how that are increasing in technological complexity. Costly technology transfer gives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751042
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Knowledge Transfer Abroad : The Role of U.S. Inventors within Global R&D Networks
Branstetter, Lee - 2018
The location of US multinational foreign R&D has shifted significantly to include emerging markets in addition to traditional Western R&D hubs, resulting in two challenges for multinationals: (1) how to transfer knowledge across geographic distances, and (2) how to facilitate learning when local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922984
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Innovation, Knowledge Diffusion, and Globalization
Lind, Nelson - 2018
We review a recent body of theoretical literature that links the creation and diffusion of knowledge and technology to openness. We analyze two channels through which the spread of new ideas occurs: international trade and the activity of multinational firms (multinational production). The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910654
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The it Revolution and the Globalization of R&D
Branstetter, Lee - 2018
markets. One of the distinguishing features of the R&D globalization phenomenon is its concentration within the software … three important phenomena: (1) the globalization of R&D, (2) the growing importance of software and IT to firm innovation … large quantities of STEM workers who possessed IT and software skills. Our findings support the view that the globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916620
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Global Firms
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2016
Research in international trade has changed dramatically over the last twenty years, as attention has shifted from countries and industries towards the firms actually engaged in international trade. The now-standard heterogeneous firm model posits measure zero firms that compete under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981614
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Globalized Israel : High Tech Prowess and Buttressing FDI
Razin, Assaf - 2017
The paper reviews the crucial role which globalization forces played in Israel's transformation from low tech to high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960794