and private sector principals frequently and intensively use this institutional channel to lobby on trade and tourism … of Caribbean tourism, and suggests the potential for using foreign lobbying as a vehicle for development. Panel data are …

the impact of increased competition and foreign direct investment on domestic firms' efforts to innovate (raise their … find that competition has a negative effect on innovation, especially for firms further from the efficiency frontier, and … we do not find support for an inverted U effect of competition on innovation. The authors show that the supply chain of …

"Over the past two decades, globalization, and more specifically the increased exposure to competition from low … costs are used as an exogenous measure of import competition. The authors find a positive and robust effect of import … competition on product quality. This effect is found to be particularly strong for non-exporting plants. The results also show …

employment, but could lead to exports with low domestic value added. The welfare effects of duty drawback reform are ambiguous …. An increase in the drawback is more likely to be welfare improving if the economy is small with high input tariffs, low … meeting WTO commitments will deepen domestic supply chains and improve welfare, but will hurt China's economic efficiency …