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Helpman, Elhanan; Niswonger, Benjamin C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We develop a model of large multinational enterprises, each one producing a continuum of products. These outsized firms compete as oligopolists in a domestic and foreign market, facing competitive pressure from single-product firms that engage in monopolistic competition. The multinational...

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The Competitiveness and Comparative Advantage of U.S. Multinationals, 1957-1983

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1986

The share in world exports of manufactured goods of U.S. multinational firms, including their majority-owned overseas …

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U.S. Multinationals and Competition from Low Wage Countries

Riker, David A. - 1997

It is often argued that the globalization of production places workers in industrialized countries in competition with their counterparts in low wage countries. We examine a firm-level panel of foreign manufacturing affiliates owned by U.S. multinationals between 1983 and 1992 and find evidence...

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A Heckscher-Ohlin View of Sweden Competing in the Global Market

Leamer, Edward E. - 1995

In this paper we explore the hypothesis that the Swedish malaise comes from the interaction of the Swedish welfare state with changes in the global marketplace. External commerce can expose Swedish workers in exporting and import-competing industries to competition from low-wage foreign workers...

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Technological Characteristics of Industries and the Competitiveness of the U.S. and its Multinational Firms

Kravis, Irving B. - 1989

The share of U.S. multinational firms in world exports of manufactures has remained almost constant at about 17 per … cent for the last 20 years while that of the U.S. as a country has declined substantially. The composition of world … during the period than did the world as a whole, and the Asian NIC's exports moved still faster in this direction. With …

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The Asian Flu and Russian Virus : Firm-level Evidence on How Crises are Transmitted Internationally

Forbes, Kristin - 2000

This paper uses firm-level information to evaluate how crises are transmitted internationally. It constructs a new data set of financial statistics, industry information, geographic data, and stock returns for over 10,000 companies in 46 countries to test what types of firms were most affected...

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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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Beyond Competitive Devaluations : The Monetary Dimensions of Comparative Advantage

Bergin, Paul R. - 2019

Motivated by the long-standing debate on the pros and cons of competitive devaluation, we propose a new perspective on how monetary and exchange rate policies can contribute to a country's international competitiveness. We refocus the analysis on the implications of monetary stabilization for a...

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All Banks Great, Small, and Global : Loan pricing and foreign competition

de Blas, Beatriz - 2010

Can allowing foreign participation in the banking sector increase real output, despite the imperfectly competitive nature of the industry? Using a new model of heterogeneous, imperfectly competitive lenders and a simple search process, we show how endogenous markups (the net interest margin...

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International Trade Aspects of Competition Policy

Nagaoka, Sadao - 1998

Recently competition policy has become an important trade policy issue, since many policy makers now see competition policy as an important instrument to secure market access' to foreign markets. This paper analyzes this issue both from a theoretical point of view and from the review of the...

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