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Endogenous Market Structure and Foreign Market Entry
Markusen, James R. - 2009
Models dealing with cross-border acquisitions versus greenfield investment usually assume that the entry of a foreign firm into a market has effects on the outputs of all domestic firms in that market, but exit or entry of local firms is not considered. The purpose of this paper is to re-examine...
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Export versus FDI
Helpman, Elhanan - 2003
This paper builds a multi-country, multi-sector general equilibrium model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to serve foreign markets either through exports or local subsidiary sales (FDI). These modes of market access involve different relative costs, some of which are sunk while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469264
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Adjustment of State Owned and Foreign-Funded Enterprises in China to Economic Reforms,1980s-2007 : a logistic smooth transition regression (LSTR) approach
Aizenman, Joshua - 2009
added production function of the State Owned (SOE) and Foreign-Funded Enterprises (FFE) in China, 1980s-2007. The transition … associated with the economic reforms in China is estimated applying a curvilinear logistic function, where the speed and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463377
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Please Pass the Catch-up The Relative Performance of Chinese and Foreign Firms in Chinese Exports
Blonigen, Bruce - 2007
. While the substantial presence of FIEs has contributed greatly to the recent export-led growth of China, an important …
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China’s Industrial Policy : an Empirical Evaluation
Barwick, Panle Jia - 2019
evaluate its welfare consequences. This paper examines an important industrial policy in China in the 2000s, aiming to propel … model of firm entry, exit, investment, and production, we find that the scale of the policy was massive and boosted China …
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Quid Pro Quo : Technology Capital Transfers for Market Access in China
Holmes, Thomas J. - 2013
Despite the recent rapid development and greater openness of China's economy, FDI flows between China and … technologically advanced countries are relatively small in both directions. We assess global capital flows in light of China's quid … model to data. We also find large welfare gains for China--and welfare losses for its FDI partners--from quid pro quo …
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Bilateral Economies of Scope
Li, Yao Amber - 2024
International transactions are costly because they require investments in logistics, contracts, and the acquisition of local institutional knowledge. We posit that a portion of the fixed costs of entering a specific export market can be used toward costs of acquiring imports from that same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056127
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Technology Adoption and Productivity Growth : Evidence from Industrialization in France
Juhász, Réka - 2020
We construct a novel plant-level dataset to examine the process of technology adoption during a period of rapid technological change: The diffusion of mechanized cotton spinning during the Industrial Revolution in France. We document new stylized facts that can help explain why major...
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Environmental Preferences and Technological Choices : Is Market Competition Clean or Dirty?
Aghion, Philippe - 2020
This paper investigates the joint effect of consumers' environmental concerns and product-market competition on firms' decisions whether to innovate "clean" or "dirty". We first develop a step-by-step innovation model to capture the basic intuition that socially responsible consumers induce...
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Vintage Capital and Creditor Protection
Benmelech, Efraim - 2010
We provide novel evidence linking the level of creditor protection provided by law to the degree of usage of technologically older, vintage capital in the airline industry. Using a panel of aircraft-level data around the world, we find that better creditor rights are associated with both...
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