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Beyond Trade : The Impact of Preferential Trade Agreements on Foreign Direct Investment Inflows

Medvedev, Denis - 2012

) inflows of member countries using a comprehensive database of PTAs in a panel setting. He finds that PTA membership is …

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Are Foreign Investors Attracted to Weak Environmental Regulations? Evaluating the Evidence from China

Dean, Judith M.; Lovely, Mary E.; Wang, Hua - 2012

One of the most contentious debates today is whether pollution-intensive industries from rich countries relocate to poor countries with weaker environmental standards, turning them into pollution havens. Empirical studies to date show little evidence to support the pollution haven hypothesis,...

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Legal Effectiveness and External Capital : The Role of Foreign Debt

Allayannis, George; Brown, Gregory W.; Klapper, Leora F. - 2012

Previous research has documented weak, and sometimes conflicting, effects of legal quality on measures of firm debt. Using WorldScope data for 1,689 firms, as well as more detailed proprietary data for 315 firms across nine East Asian countries, the authors find that access to foreign financing...

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Trade Costs and Location of Foreign Firms in China

Amiti, Mary; Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska - 2012

The authors examine the determinants of entry by foreign firms using information on 515 Chinese industries at the provincial level during 1998-2001. The analysis, rooted in the new economic geography, focuses on market and supplier access within and outside the province of entry, as well as...

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Migration, Trade, and Foreign Direct Investment in Mexico

Aroca Gonzalez, Patricio; Maloney, William F. - 2012

Part of the rationale for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was that it would increase trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, creating jobs and reducing migration to the United States. Since poor data on illegal flows to the United States make direct measurement...

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Gifted Kids or Pushy Parents? Foreign Acquisitions and Plant Performance in Indonesia

Arnold, Jens Matthias; Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska - 2012

This paper uses micro data from the Indonesian Census of Manufacturing to analyze the causal relationship between foreign ownership and plant productivity. To control for the possible endogeneity of the FDI decision, the difference in differences approach is combined with a matching technique....

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The Impact on Russia of WTO Accession and The Doha Agenda : The Importance of Liberalization of Barriers against Foreign Direct Investment in Services for Growth and Poverty Reduct...

Rutherford, Thomas; Tarr, David; Shepotylo, Oleksandr - 2012

Taking price changes from the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model of world trade, the authors use a small open … results with the impact of Russian accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on income distribution and the poor. The … the rest of the world. Foremost among the own reforms is liberalization of barriers against FDI in business services. …

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CGE Modeling of Market Access in Services

Christen, Elisabeth; Francois, Joseph; Hoekman, Bernard - 2012

This paper examines how the applied multi-sector computable general equilibrium (CGE) literature has moved into quantication of the impacts of greater market access for services. This includes discussion of multi-sector linkages to the service sector, as well both measuring barriers to trade and...

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FDI, Market Power, and Markups : Evidence from Vietnam

Albertson, Mark; Kuo, Ryan; Li, Yue; Pinzon Latorre, … - 2022

To date, the impact of foreign direct investment on market power and consumer welfare in developing countries has been relatively understudied. Utilizing a firm survey dataset from Vietnam, this paper first calculates firm-level markups for manufacturing firms and then analyzes the impact of...

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FDI and Trade Outcomes at the Industry Level : A Data-Driven Approach

Maur, Jean-Christophe; Nedeljkovic, Milan; von Uexkull, Erik - 2022

This paper proposes a novel empirical methodology to reveal factors associated with foreign direct investment decisions and export success at the industry level. Faced with large amounts of policy and economic indicators, as well as significant product and sectoral diversity, the motivation of...

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