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The Effects of Local Market Concentration and International Competition on Firm Productivity : Evidence from Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos - 2020
Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have limited its analysis to developed countries or cross-country studies based on definitions of market concentration across nations and industries. This paper takes advantage of a...
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Competition Makes it Better : Evidence on When Firms Use it More Effectively
Iacovone, Leo - 2018
This paper uses a unique firm-level data set for Mexico, with information never used for research before, to assess how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936253
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Does Democratization Promote Competition? : Indonesian Manufacturing Pre and Post Suharto
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2020
Does democratization promote economic competition? This paper documents that the disruption of political connections associated with Suharto's fall had a modest pro-competitive effect on Indonesian manufacturing industries in which his family had extensive business interests. Firms with...
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Japan's Changing Industrial Landscape
Yusuf, Shahid - 2015
This paper explores various strategic options available to Japanese firms faced with the increasing market pressures in the global economy. Whether Japanese firms are able to retain the competitive edge will depend on the continuing gains in their manufacturing capability, their capacity to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012708070
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Have Robots Grounded the Flying Geese? : Evidence from Greenfield FDI in Manufacturing
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2020
known as the "flying geese" paradigm. Greenfield foreign direct investment decisions constitute a forward-looking indicator … of where production is expected, rather than trade flows that reflect past investment decisions. Exploiting differences … investment growth from high-income countries to low- and middle-income countries over 2004-15. Past a threshold, however …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012845262
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Greening Global Value Chains : Some Implementation Challenges
Sinclair-Desgagne, Bernard - 2017
The paper aims to highlight some of the most important implementation issues associated with the greening of global value chains with special attention given to how public policies and business strategies can support each other in meeting the challenge, particularly in developing countries. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973982
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Facilitating International Production Networks : The Role of Trade Logistics
Saslavsky, Daniel - 2017
This paper shows that networked trade in parts and components is more sensitive to the importing country's logistics performance than is trade in final goods. In the baseline specification, the difference between the two trade semi-elasticities is around 45 percent, which suggests that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974909
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The Role of Trade Costs in Global Production Networks : Evidence from China's Processing Trade Regime
Ma, Alyson C. - 2017
In a seminal contribution, Yi (2003) has shown that vertically specialized trade should be more sensitive to changes in trade costs than regular trade. Yet empirical evidence of this remains remarkably scant. This paper uses data from China's processing trade regime to analyze the role of trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976267
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Trade Integration in East Asia : The Role of China and Production Networks
Haddad, Mona - 2016
Production networks have been at the heart of the recent growth in trade among East Asian countries. Fragmentation trade, reflected mainly in the trade in parts and components, is expanding more rapidly than the conventional trade in final goods. This is mainly due to the relatively more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747815
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Distributional Effects of Intergovernmental Transfers in Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos - 2020
public finances to study the effects on local welfare of a large fiscal transfer fund earmarked for social investment in more …
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