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FDI, the Brain Drain and Trade : Channels and Evidence
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2009
This paper explores the links between the patterns of migration (high vs.low-skill), trade policy, and foreign direct investment (FDI) from the standpoint of sending countries. A skeleton general equilibrium model with a non-traded good and sector-specific labour is used to explore the effects...
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Temporary Shocks and Offshoring : The Role of External Economies and Firm Heterogeneity
Mitra, Devashish; Jha, Priyaranjan - 2007
We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to the presence of externalities …, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanent effects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in … an industry. Also, the initial advantage of a country as a potential host for outsourcing activities can create a lock in …
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FDI and the Two Margins of International Trade : Evidence from Korea
Ha, Bongchan - 2017
The attempt to examine the relationship between FDI and trade has a long history in international trade. There is little corresponding empirical research examining the impact of FDI flows on the two margins. FDI may expand trade through two channels, the extensive margin (the range of existing...
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What determines whether preferential liberalization of barriers against foreign investors in services are beneficial or immizerising : application to the case of Kenya
Balistreri, Edward J.; Jensen, Jesper; Tarr, David G. - 2015
Despite the fact that many modern preferential trade agreements include commitments to foreign investors in imperfectly competitive services sectors, the literature has not established conditions under which these agreements are beneficial or harmful. The authors fill that void by developing a...
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What determines whether preferential liberalization of barriers against foreign investors in services are beneficial or immizerising : application to the case of Kenya
Balistreri, Edward J.; Jensen, Jesper; Tarr, David G. - 2015
Despite the fact that many modern preferential trade agreements include commitments to foreign investors in imperfectly competitive services sectors, the literature has not established conditions under which these agreements are beneficial or harmful. The authors fill that void by developing a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386602
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Chapter 2. Multinational Firms and the Structure of International Trade
Antràs, Pol; Yeaple, Stephen R. - In: Handbook of international economics : Volume 4, (pp. 55-130). 2014
This chapter reviews the state of the international trade literature on multinational firms. This literature addresses three main questions. First, why do some firms operate in more than one country while others do not? Second, what determines in which countries production facilities are...
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Trade and investment barriers affecting international production networks in India
Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh Kumar - 2014
international production networks, on which growth in manufacturing has become increasingly dependent in the contemporary world …
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Labour market power and the dynamic gains to openness reforms
Jha, Priyaranjan; Rodríguez López, Antonio; Spencer, … - 2023
We develop a dynamic general equilibrium framework with firm heterogeneity and monopsonistic labour markets, for quantification of the impact of trade and FDI liberalisation episodes. Firms make standard extensive margin investment choices into exporting and multinational statuses. The labour...
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Sustainable development impact of trade and investment liberalization in Asia and the Pacific
Narayanan, Badri; Duval, Yann; Kravchenko, Alexey; … - 2017
Trade and investment can be effective means of implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. However, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side-effects on non-economic facets of sustainable development. As...
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The welfare effects of attracting foreign direct investment in the presence of unemployment
Ogawa, Yoshitomo; Ono, Yoshiyasu - 2016
We develop a 2×2×2 model with the following features: (1) one sector is perfectly competitive while the other is oligopolistic; (2) one country has unemployment while the other attains full employment; (3) oligopolists move internationally; and (4) the ownership of each oligopolist is...
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