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The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in International Capital Flows

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000

absorbing much of the world's supply, especially in the late 1980s, and then reverted to its earlier net supplier role. Direct …

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U.S.-Owned Affiliates and Host-Country Exports

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1982

U.S.-owned manufacturing affiliates in foreign countries tended to become more export-oriented between 1966 and 1977. The shift toward exporting characterized affiliates in most industries and most countries.The bulk of U.S.-owned production abroad continues to be for local sale in most...

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Prices and Market Shares in the International Machinery Trade

Kravis, Irving B. - 1980

We use new international price measures we have developed for machinery and transport equipment to explain changes in exports and export shares of the United States, Germany, and Japan. The effects of relative price changes on export shares are fairly large, producing relative quantity changes...

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On the Global Impact of Risk-off Shocks and Policy-put Frameworks

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2019

Global risk-off shocks can be highly destabilizing for financial markets and, absent an adequate policy response, may trigger severe recessions. Policy responses were more complex for developed economies with very low interest rates after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). We document, however,...

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Report on the State of Available Data for the Study of International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2010

This report, prepared for the Committee on Economic Statistics of the American Economic Association, examines the state of available data for the study of international trade and foreign direct investment. Data on values of imports and exports of goods are of high quality and coverage, but price...

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The "Other" Imbalance and the Financial Crisis

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2010

the U.S. would experience a sudden stop of capital flows, which would unavoidably drag the world economy into a deep … instead that the root imbalance was of a different kind: The entire world had an insatiable demand for safe debt instruments … of exposing the economy to a systemic panic. This structural problem can be alleviated if governments around the world …

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Global Imbalances and Financial Fragility

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2009

behind this crisis is the large demand for riskless assets from the rest of the world. In this paper we present a model to …

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Financial Crash, Commodity Prices and Global Imbalances

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2008

In this paper we argue that the persistent global imbalances, the subprime crisis, and the volatile oil and asset prices that followed it, are tightly interconnected. They all stem from a global environment where sound and liquid financial assets are in scarce supply

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Measuring the Location of Production in a World of Intangible Productive Assets, FDI, and Intrafirm Trade

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2008

As production comes to depend more on intangible productive assets, the location of production by multinational firms becomes increasingly ambiguous. The reason is that, within the firm, these assets have no clear geographical location, but only a nominal location determined by the firm's tax or...

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Explaining Product Price Differences Across Countries

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2007

A substantial part of international differences in prices of individual products, both goods and services, can be explained by differences in per capita income, wage compression, or low wage dispersion among low-wage workers, and short-term exchange rate fluctuations. Higher per capita income is...

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