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Foreign investors' changing appetite for risk-taking have been shown to be a key determinant of the global financial cycle. Such fluctuations in risk sentiment also correlate with the dynamics of UIP premia, capital flows, and exchange rates. To understand how these risk sentiment changes...
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We develop a model of export-platform foreign direct investment (FDI) in which final goods are produced only with labor and there are no fixed costs of exporting. We derive a simple condition that determines whether an MNE's plants are substitutes or complements. This condition is shaped by the...
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-run business groups, domestic financial institutions, and foreign financial institutions. Using data from India in the early 1990s …
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, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an important … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms. Finally, we construct a panel dataset that allows us to track firms …
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Trade in business services has been attracting attention from academic researchers, policy makers, and business journalists. While there are many anecdotes, there has been little in the way of formal theory applied to this issue. In this paper, we adapt a general model of fragmentation of...
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From the early 1990s onwards, India has engaged in policies involving trade liberalisation, strong controls on debt …
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rich to poor countries. In this paper we consider a natural experiment: using China as the treated country and India as the …-child policy in China, the capital-labor (K/L) ratio of China increased relative to that of India, and, simultaneously, relative … FDI inflows into China vs. India declined. These observations are explained in the context of a simple neoclassical OLG …
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We document the rise of China in offshore capital markets. Chinese firms use global tax havens to access foreign capital both in equity and bond markets. In the last twenty years, China's presence went from raising a negligible amount of capital in these markets to accounting for more than half...
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Multinational firms (MNEs) accounted for 42 percent of US manufacturing employment, 87 percent of US imports, and 84 of US exports in 2007. Despite their disproportionate share of global trade, MNEs' input sourcing and final-good production decisions are often studied separately. Using newly...
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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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