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The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing
Greenstone, Michael - 2014
The economic costs of environmental regulations have been widely debated since the U.S. began to restrict pollution emissions more than four decades ago. Using detailed production data from nearly 1.2 million plant observations drawn from the 1972-1993 Annual Survey of Manufactures, we estimate...
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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 affiliates, has been nearly stable since 1966. This stability, over a period in which the export share of the U.S. as a geographical entity was declining for the most part,...
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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 …, but the competition is between affiliates in countries with similar workforce skill levels. The results suggest that …
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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 manufactured exports shifted toward high-technology or...
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One Ring to Rule Them All? Globalization of Knowledge and Knowledge Creation
Freeman, Richard B. - 2014
This paper directs attention at the globalization of knowledge and knowledge creation as the fundamental global driver of economic outcomes in today's information economy. It documents the globalization of knowledge and spread of scientific research from advanced to developing countries and...
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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...
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The Welfare State and Competitiveness
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010
In all modern industrial countries, redistributive expenditures are a larger component of the government budget than consumption of goods and services. In this paper, we use a general equilibrium, two- country model with exportables, importables and nontradables to study redistribution across...
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Industrial Policy and Competition
Aghion, Philippe - 2012
industrial policies allocated to competitive sectors or that foster competition in a sector increase productivity growth. We … measure competition using the Lerner Index and include as industrial policies subsidies, tax holidays, loans, and tariffs …. Measures to foster competition include policies that are more dispersed across firms in a sector or measures that encourage …
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Import Competition and Quality Upgrading
Amiti, Mary - 2014
at which they upgrade the quality of their products. We analyze the effect of import competition on quality upgrading …
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Foreign Competition and the UK
Lake, Arthur W. - 2021
host-country research and development effort in response to foreign competition, is one of three examining the impact of …
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