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International Harmonization of Product Standards and Firm Heterogeneity in International Trade
Reyes, Daniel - 2017
As free trade areas have proliferated and statutory tariffs have been dramatically reduced in recent decades, non-tariff barriers (NTBs) to international trade have risen in importance. Destination-specific product standards are one of the major types of NTBs as they impose additional costs on...
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The Role of Standards in Global Value Chains
Kaplinsky, Raphael - 2017
Standards have become an increasingly important dimension in global trade. Without the capacity to meet the growing body of standards, producers may either have difficulty in entering global markets, or be relegated to unprofitable and low-margin niches. This paper overviews the history of...
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How Do Differing Standards Increase Trade Costs? The Case of Pallets
Raballand, Gaël - 2017
sizes around the world. The case of pallets is examined to illustrate the impact of multiplicity of standards on trade costs …. We select this case because pallets are used all around the world, pallet standards are not too sophisticated, and data … because of the lack of rental and exchange pallet markets. To mitigate the costs of this multiplicity of standards, the World …
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Regionalism in Standards : Good or Bad for Trade?
Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang - 2016
countries but not necessarily with the rest of the world. Adopting a common standard in a region-that is, harmonization …
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Arm's-Length Trade : A Source of Post-Crisis Trade Weakness
Lakatos, Csilla - 2017
Trade growth has slowed sharply since the global financial crisis. U.S. trade data highlights that arm's-length trade--trade between unaffiliated firms--accounts disproportionately for the overall post-crisis trade slowdown. This is partly because arm's-length trade depends more heavily than...
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Beyond Capital : Monitoring Development Outcomes of Multinational Enterprises
Lejarraga, Iza - 2018
and 10 areas that matter for development. Building on decade-long data collection by the World Bank Enterprise Surveys …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906342
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How Do Multinationals Report Their Economic, Social, and Environmental Impacts? Evidence from Global Reporting Initiative Data
Winkler, Deborah E. - 2017
This paper examines the role of multinational enterprises in sustainability reporting. The study assesses how multinational enterprise status correlates with a company's average disclosure rate and probability of reporting on economic, labor and social, environmental, and governance indicators....
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Surviving the Global Financial Crisis : Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance
Alfaro, Laura - 2017
This paper examines how different establishments performed during the recent global financial crisis, focusing on the role of foreign ownership. The paper investigates how foreign ownership affected establishments' responses to negative economic shocks, using a cross-country panel dataset with...
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What to Do When Foreign Direct Investment is Not Direct or Foreign : FDI Round Tripping
Aykut, Dilek; Sanghi, Apurva; Kosmidou, Gina - 2017
As globalization has intensified, multinational enterprises' investments have become a sophisticated set of financial transactions that are difficult to monitor and classify by the home and host countries. In some cases, what is classified as foreign direct investment is rather "indirect foreign...
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The Domestic Segment of Global Supply Chains in China Under State Capitalism
Tang, Heiwai - 2017
This paper proposes methods to incorporate firm heterogeneity in the standard input-output table-based approach to portray the domestic segment of global value chains in a country. The analysis uses Chinese firm census data for the manufacturing and service sectors, along with constrained...
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