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Multinational Corporations and Productivity Convergence in Mexico
Blomstrom, Magnus; Wolff, Edward N. - 2021
levels of locally-owned firms in Mexico have converged to those of foreign-owned firms. Second, both the rate of productivity … ownership of an industry. Third, the productivity gap between Mexico and U.S. manufacturing has diminished between the mid-1960s …
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Host Country Competition and Technology Transfer by Multinationals
Blomstrom, Magnus; Kokko, Ari; Zejan, Mario - 2021
This paper examines whether rivalry in host country markets may force multinational films to increase the technology transfer to their foreign affiliates. Such technology flows should be interesting from the perspective of the host country and its firms, since they would increase the potential...
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Moving to Greener Pastures? Multinationals and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis
Eskeland, Gunnar S.; Harrison, Ann E. - 2021
This paper presents evidence on whether multinationals are flocking to developing country 'pollution havens'. Although we find some evidence that foreign investors locate in sectors with high levels of air pollution, the evidence is weak at best. We then examine whether foreign firms pollute...
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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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Globalization, Labor Income, and Poverty in Mexico
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2014
In this paper, I examine changes in the distribution of labor income across regions of Mexico during the country …'s decade of globalization in the 1990's. I focus the analysis on men born in states with either high-exposure or low …-exposure to globalization, as measured by the share of foreign direct investment, imports, or export assembly in state GDP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065640
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Retail Globalization and Household Welfare : Evidence from Mexico
Atkin, David - 2015
The arrival of global retail chains in developing countries is causing a radical transformation in the way that households source their consumption. This paper draws on a new collection of Mexican microdata to estimate the effect of foreign supermarket entry on household welfare. The richness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022592
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Globalization, Technology, and the Skill Premium : A Quantitative Analysis
Burstein, Ariel T. - 2010
We construct a model of international trade and multinational production (MP) to examine the impact of globalization on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137021
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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
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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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International Comovement in the Global Production Network
Huo, Zhen - 2019
This paper provides a general and unified framework to study the role of production networks in international GDP comovement. We first derive an additive decomposition of bilateral GDP comovement into components capturing shock transmission and shock correlation. We quantify this decomposition...
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