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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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Export Versus FDI
Helpman, Elhanan; Melitz, Marc J.; Yeaple, Stephen R. - 2021
This paper builds a multi-country, multi-sector general equilibrium model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to serve foreign markets either through exports or local subsidiary sales (FDI). These modes of market access involve different relative costs, some of which are sunk while...
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Please Pass the Catch-Up the Relative Performance of Chinese and Foreign Firms in Chinese Exports
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2010
. While the substantial presence of FIEs has contributed greatly to the recent export-led growth of China, an important …
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Adjustment of State Owned and Foreign-Funded Enterprises in China to Economic Reforms,1980s-2007 : A Logistic Smooth Transition Regression (Lstr) Approach
Aizenman, Joshua - 2010
added production function of the State Owned (SOE) and Foreign-Funded Enterprises (FFE) in China, 1980s-2007. The transition … associated with the economic reforms in China is estimated applying a curvilinear logistic function, where the speed and the …
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Quid Pro Quo : Technology Capital Transfers for Market Access in China
Holmes, Thomas - 2014
Despite the recent rapid development and greater openness of China's economy, FDI flows between China and … technologically advanced countries are relatively small in both directions. We assess global capital flows in light of China's quid … model to data. We also find large welfare gains for China--and welfare losses for its FDI partners--from quid pro quo …
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China's Industrial Policy : An Empirical Evaluation
Barwick, Panle Jia; Kalouptsidi, Myrto; Zahur, Nahim - 2022
evaluate its welfare consequences. This paper examines an important industrial policy in China in the 2000s, aiming to propel … model of firm entry, exit, investment, and production, we find that the scale of the policy was massive and boosted China …
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The Economics of Inefficient Technology Use
Beaudry, Paul - 2012
The adoption and diffusion of technological knowledge is generally regarded as a key element in a country's economic success. However, as is the case with most types of information, the transfer of technological knowledge is likely to be subject to adverse selection problems. In this paper we...
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Vintage Capital and Creditor Protection
Benmelech, Efraim - 2010
We provide novel evidence linking the level of creditor protection provided by law to the degree of usage of technologically older, vintage capital in the airline industry. Using a panel of aircraft-level data around the world, we find that better creditor rights are associated with both...
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Environmental Preferences and Technological Choices : Is Market Competition Clean or Dirty?
Aghion, Philippe; Bénabou, Roland; Martin, Ralf; … - 2022
This paper investigates the joint effect of consumers' environmental concerns and product-market competition on firms' decisions whether to innovate “clean” or “dirty”. We first develop a step-by-step innovation model to capture the basic intuition that socially responsible consumers...
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Managed Care, Technology Adoption, and Health Care : The Adoption of Neonatal Intensive Care
Baker, Laurence C.; Phibbs, Ciaran S. - 2022
Managed care activity may alter the incentives associated with the acquisition and use of new medical technologies, with potentially important implications for health care costs, patient care, and outcomes. This paper discusses mechanisms by which managed care could influence the adoption of new...
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