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What global fragmentation means for the WTO : Article XXIV, behind-the-border concessions, and a new case for WTO limits on investment incentives
Blanchard, Emily J. - 2014 - Manuscript date: December 19, 2013
The rapid rise in global fragmentation - foreign investment, global supply chains, and 'production sharing' - is fundamentally reshaping the multilateral trading system. This paper uses a simple economic modeling framework to understand how the global fragmentation phenomenon may reshape the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010240627
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Inward FDI in East Asian & Pacific Developing Countries Due to WTO Led Liberalisation
Shah, Mumtaz Hussain - 2017
for foreign direct investors. Other FDI influencing factors such as economic development, macroeconomic stability, trade … and financial development, though very important conventional FDI location pull factors, were insignificant in all the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953156
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FDI and Firm Productivity in Host Countries : The Role of Financial Constraints
Han, Wontae; Wang, Jian; Wang, Xiao - 2021
This paper studies the effect of FDI firms' financial advantages on firm productivity in host countries and examines … the related policy implications. If FDI firms face lower financing costs but have higher fixed production costs than local … firms, a simple Melitz-type model predicts that because of their financial advantages, FDI firms could have even lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238912
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What global fragmentation means for the WTO : Article XXIV, behind-the-border concessions, and a new case for WTO limits on investment incentives
Blanchard, Emily J. - 2014 - Manuscript date: December 19, 2013
The rapid rise in global fragmentation — foreign investment, global supply chains, and ‘production sharing — is fundamentally reshaping the multilateral trading system. This paper uses a simple economic modeling framework to understand how the global fragmentation phenomenon may reshape...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882807
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U.S. Multinational Affiliate Exports from Developing Countries
Shatz, Howard J. - 2004
Globalization of production is one of the dominant issues of the international economy. This paper explores how country characteristics influence the choice of developing country export bases by US multinationals. It separately analyses two types of exports by affiliates, exports to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014029226
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U.S. Multinational Affiliate Exports from Developing Countries
Shatz, Howard J. - 2004
Globalization of production is one of the dominant issues of the international economy. This paper explores how country characteristics influence the choice of developing country export bases by U.S. multinationals. It separately analyzes two types of exports, exports to the headquarters country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014086213
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Global Value Chains : What are the Benefits and Why Do Countries Participate?
Raei, Faezeh - 2019
Over the last two decades, world trade and production have become increasingly organized around global value chains (GVC). Recent theoretical work has shown that countries can benefit from participation in GVCs through multiple channels. However, little is known empirically about the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892927
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Globalisierung der Automobilindustrie : neue Standorte auf dem Vormarsch, traditionelle Anbieter unter Druck?
Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2000
Der Beitrag analysiert die internationalen Produktionsverlagerungen und Investitionsverflechtungen in der Automobilindustrie, um die These zu überprüfen, dass es selbst bei der Herstellung relativ wissensund technologieintensiver Güter zu einem nachdrängenden Wettbewerb aus Ländern mit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491137
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Conclusions : Upgrading Capabilities to Build an Emerging Market Multinational
Cuervo-Cazurra, Alvaro - 2018
upgrading and their internationalization speed and breadth. Second, the four alternative upgrading strategies for … internationalization that emerging market firms use: Improvement, whereby firms upgrade processes at the local level; Integration, whereby …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906817
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Determinants of global value chain participation : cross-country evidence
Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Kee, Hiau Looi; Winkler, Deborah - 2020
The past decades witnessed big changes in international trade with the rise of global value chains. Some countries, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam rode the tide, while other countries, many in the Africa region, faltered. This paper studies the determinants of participation in global value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213059