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China’s Foreign Trade and Investment, 1800-1950

Keller, Wolfgang - 2020

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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Institutions and Foreign Investment : China versus the World

Fan, Joseph P.H. - 2007

Weak institutions ought to deter foreign direction investment (FDI), and mass media stories highlight China …'s institutional deficiencies, yet China is now one of the world's largest FDI destinations. This incongruity characterizes China …'s paradoxical growth. Cross-country regressions show that China's FDI inflow is not exceptionally large, given the quality of its …

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International Joint Ventures and Internal vs. External Technology Transfer : Evidence from China

Jiang, Kun - 2018

ventures in China from 1998 to 2007--roughly a quarter of all international joint ventures in the world--we find, first, that … virtually absent in broad sectors that include economic activities for which China's FDI policy has prohibited joint ventures …

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Environmental Compliance Costs and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to U.S. States

Keller, Wolfgang - 1999

This paper estimates the extent to which changing environmental standards have altered patterns of international investment. Our analysis goes beyond the existing literature in three ways. First, we avoid comparing regulations in different countries by using data on inward foreign direct...

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Knowledge Spillovers, Trade, and Foreign Direct Investment

Keller, Wolfgang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

I study knowledge spillovers, positive externalities that augment the information set of an economic agent, and reviews the evidence on such spillovers in the context of international economic transactions. Even though spillovers are by their very nature difficult to identify, over recent...

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International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Technology Spillovers

Keller, Wolfgang - 2009

This paper examines how international flows of technological knowledge affect economic performance across industries and firms in different countries. Motivated by the large share of the world's technology investments made by firms that are active across borders, we focus on international trade...

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Openness and Industrial Responses in a Wal-Mart World : A Case Study of Mexican Soaps, Detergents and Surfactant Producers

Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska - 2006

This paper uses a case study approach to explore the effects of NAFTA and GATT membership on innovation and trade in the Mexican soaps, detergents and surfactants (SDS) industry. Several basic findings emerge. First, the most fundamental effect of NAFTA and the GATT on the SDS industry was to...

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Multinational Enterprises, International Trade, and Productivity Growth : Firm-Level Evidence from the United States

Keller, Wolfgang - 2003

We estimate international technology spillovers to U.S. manufacturing firms via imports and foreign direct investment (FDI) between the years of 1987 and 1996. In contrast to earlier work, our results suggest that FDI leads to significant productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI...

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Supplier Responses to Wal-Mart's Invasion of Mexico

Iacovone, Leonardo - 2011

This paper examines the effect of Wal-Mart's entry into Mexico on Mexican manufacturers of consumer goods. Guided by firm interviews that suggested substantial heterogeneity across firms in how they responded to Wal-Mart's entry, we develop a dynamic industry model in which firms decide whether...

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International Trade and Job Polarization : Evidence at the Worker-Level

Keller, Wolfgang - 2016

show that import competition is a major cause of job polarization. Import competition with China accounts for about 17% of …

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