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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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Monetary Stimulus Amidst the Infrastructure Investment Spree : Evidence from China's Loan-Level Data

Chen, Kaiji - 2020

allocation. We develop a two-stage estimation approach and apply it to China's loan-level data that covers all sectors in the …

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Incentives and Outcomes : China's Environmental Policy

Wu, Jing - 2013

In generating fast economic growth, China is also generating growing concern about its environmental record. Using 2000 …

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Does Government Investment in Local Public Goods Spur Gentrification? Evidence from Beijing

Zheng, Siqi - 2011

In Beijing, the metropolitan government has made enormous place based investments to increase green space and to improve public transit. We examine the gentrification consequences of such public investments. Using unique geocoded real estate and restaurant data, we document that the construction...

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Foreign Direct Investments in Services and the Domestic Market for Expertise

Markusen, James R. - 2000

Producer services such as managerial and engineering consulting can provide domestic firms with the substantial benefits of specialized knowledge that would be costly in terms of both time and money for domestic firms to develop on their own. These intermediate services are often non-traded, or...

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International Trade, Foreign Investment, and the Formation of the Entrepreneurial Class

Grossman, Gene M. - 1983

In this paper, I examine the argument that free trade may be harmful to less developed countries, because such international competition inhibits the formation of a local entrepreneurial class.I view the entrepreneur as the manager of the industrial enterprise, as well as the agent who bears the...

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Trade, Foreign Investment, and Industrial Policy for Developing Countries

Harrison, Ann - 2009

In this paper we explore the popular but controversial idea that developing countries benefit from abandoning policy neutrality vis-a-vis trade, FDI and resource allocation across industries. Are developing countries justified in imposing tariffs, subsidies, and tax breaks that imply distortions...

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Bilateralism and Regionalism in Japanese and U.S. Trade and Direct Foreign Investment Patterns

Eaton, Jonathan - 1995

We apply a modified 'gravity model' incorporating measures of factor endowments to analyze Japanese and U.S. bilateral trade flows and direct foreign investment positions with a sample of around 100 countries for the period 1985-1990. Country features that our analysis takes into account are...

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Foreign Direct Investment in the U.S. and U.S. Trade

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1991

Foreign-owned manufacturing firms' shares of U.S. trade grew from almost nothing in the 1960s to 7 or 8 per cent of trade in manufactured goods by the 1980s. It has changed little in the past decade, except for fluctuations related to changing U.S. exchange rates. Foreign-owned firms are less...

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Exporting, Global Sourcing, and Multinational Activity : Theory and Evidence from the United States

Antràs, Pol; Fadeev, Evgenii; Fort, Teresa C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Multinational firms (MNEs) dominate trade flows, yet their global production decisions are often ignored in firm-level studies of exporting and importing. Using newly merged data on US firms' trade and multinational activity by country, we show that MNEs are more likely to trade not only with...

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