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China's Foreign Trade and Investment, 1800-1950
Keller, Wolfgang; Shiue, Carol H. - 2022
The First Opium War (1840-42) was a watershed in the history of China. In its aftermath Britain and other countries …-organized under Western management, Western legal institutions were introduced in China in form of courts and legal practices, and … foreigners in China were tried according to the laws of their country of origin (extraterritoriality). To better understand the …
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Does Government Investment in Local Public Goods Spur Gentrification? Evidence from Beijing
Zheng, Siqi - 2011
In Beijing, the metropolitan government has made enormous place based investments to increase green space and to improve public transit. We examine the gentrification consequences of such public investments. Using unique geocoded real estate and restaurant data, we document that the construction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125912
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Incentives and Outcomes : China's Environmental Policy
Wu, Jing - 2013
In generating fast economic growth, China is also generating growing concern about its environmental record. Using 2000 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075346
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Monetary Stimulus Amidst the Infrastructure Investment Spree : Evidence from China's Loan-Level Data
Chen, Kaiji; Gao, Haoyu; Higgins, Patrick C.; Waggoner, … - 2022
allocation. We develop a two-stage estimation approach and apply it to China's loan-level data that covers all sectors in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013289458
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Trade, Foreign Investment, and Industrial Policy for Developing Countries
Harrison, Ann E. - 2010
In this paper we explore the popular but controversial idea that developing countries benefit from abandoning policy neutrality vis-a-vis trade, FDI and resource allocation across industries. Are developing countries justified in imposing tariffs, subsidies, and tax breaks that imply distortions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151144
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Bilateralism and Regionalism in Japanese and U.S. Trade and Direct Foreign Investment Patterns
Eaton, Jonathan - 2010
We apply a modified 'gravity model' incorporating measures of factor endowments to analyze Japanese and U.S. bilateral trade flows and direct foreign investment positions with a sample of around 100 countries for the period 1985-1990. Country features that our analysis takes into account are...
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Foreign Direct Investment in the U.S. And U.S. Trade
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2021
Foreign-owned manufacturing firms' shares of U.S. trade grew from almost nothing in the 1960s to 7 or 8 per cent of trade in manufactured goods by the 1980s. It has changed little in the past decade, except for fluctuations related to changing U.S. exchange rates. Foreign-owned firms are less...
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International Trade, Foreign Investment, and the Formation of the Entrepreneurial Class
Grossman, Gene M. - 2021
In this paper, I examine the argument that free trade may be harmful to less developed countries, because such international competition inhibits the formation of a local entrepreneurial class.I view the entrepreneur as the manager of the industrial enterprise, as well as the agent who bears the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239391
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Foreign Direct Investments in Services and the Domestic Market for Expertise
Markusen, James R.; Rutherford, Thomas F.; Tarr, David G. - 2022
Producer services such as managerial and engineering consulting can provide domestic firms with the substantial benefits of specialized knowledge that would be costly in terms of both time and money for domestic firms to develop on their own. These intermediate services are often non-traded, or...
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Firm Exports and Multinational Activity Under Credit Constraints
Manova, Kalina - 2011
sectoral pattern of multinational activity. Using detailed customs data from China, we show that foreign affiliates and joint …
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