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The Export Performance of Swedish and U.S. Multinationals

Blomstrom, Magnus - 1986

manufactures over the 15 years or so after the mid-1960's, the export shares of their multinational firms stayed fairly stable or … Sweden, and in all industry groups, with one exception, the multinationals' export shares increased relative to those of … siting of export production reflected the much greater export orientation of Swedish parents relative to U.S. parents …

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Could the U.S. Iron Industry Have Survived Free Trade After the Civil War?

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2000

An unresolved question concerning post-Civil War U.S. industrialization is the degree to which import tariffs protected domestic manufacturers from foreign competition. This paper considers the impact of import tariffs on the domestic pig iron industry, the basic building block of the entire...

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The Long-Term Effects of Industrial Policy

Choi, Jaedo; Levchenko, Andrei A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper provides causal evidence of the impact of industrial policy on firms' long-term performance and quantifies industrial policy's long-term welfare effects. Using a natural experiment and unique historical data during the Heavy and Chemical Industry (HCI) Drive in South Korea, we find...

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Imports as a Cause of Injury : The Case of the U.S. Steel Industry

Grossman, Gene M. - 1984

Recently, the United States International Trade Commission conducted a Section 201 or "escape clause" hearing to determine whether imports have been the most significant cause of injury to the U.S. steel industry. This paper suggests a methodology for conducting the necessary analysis for such...

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U.S. Antidumping Policies : The Case of Steel

Eichengreen, Barry J. - 1983

This paper examines the controversy surrounding recent allegations that foreign producers are dumping steel products onto U.S. markets. The paper is in four sections, which take four quite distinct views of dumping and recent U.S. antidumping policies, emphasizing the changing definition of...

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Have Angels Done More? The Steel Industry Consent Decree

Ichniowski, Casey - 1981

This study analyzes the Consent Decree of the United States' basic steel industry which reformed plant seniority systems to accommodate issues of equal employment opportunity. The plant-by-plant litigation brought under Title VII and Executive Order 11246 is shown to be the main catalyst which...

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World War I and the Restructuring of International Business

Fertik, Ted - 2020

This paper considers the effect of the First World War on large-scale businesses in Second-Industrial-Revolution industries like steel, electricity, and chemicals. For firms in the nations of the Entente, we argue, the war mainly interrupted long-term trends that resumed in the aftermath of the...

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Are All Trade Protection Policies Created Equal? Empirical Evidence for Nonequivalent Market Power Effects of Tariffs and Quotas

Blonigen, Bruce - 2010

Over the past decades, the steel industry has been protected by a wide variety of trade policies, both tariff- and quota-based. We exploit this extensive heterogeneity in trade protection to examine the well-established theoretical literature predicting nonequivalent effects of tariffs and...

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Connective Capital as Social Capital : The Value of Problem-Solving Networks for Team Players in Firms

Ichniowski, Casey - 2009

Traditional human capital theory emphasizes a worker's investment in knowledge. However, when a worker is faced with day-to-day problems on the job, the solutions to the problems often require more knowledge from a team of experts within the firm. When a worker taps into the knowledge of...

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Trade Policy and Market Power : The Case of the US Steel Industry

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2007

A primary function of trade policy is to restrict imports to benefit the targeted domestic sector. However, a well-established theoretical literature highlights that the form of trade policy (e.g., quotas versus tariffs) can have a significant impact on how much trade policy affects firms'...

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