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Fear of China : Is There a Future for Manufacturing in Latin America?
Moreira, Mauricio Mesquita - 2007
China's emergence has raised pointed questions about the future of manufacturing in Latin America. This paper looks at …, productivity, scale and the government's role, all work together to make China a formidable competitor. The importance of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014052638
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Structural transformation and international trade : evidence from the China shock
Nedoncelle, Clément; Wolfersberger, Julien - 2023
plausibly exogenous variation in manufacturing imports from China. We find that the so-called 'China shock' largely slows down … decreases by 0.49 per cent on average for each additional per cent of manufacturing imports from China. It highlights a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014280617
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Competitiveness in the Latin American Manufacturing Sector : Trends and Determinants
García-Herrero, Alicia - 2018
After analysing the evolution of exports from the large Latin American countries over the last decade, and examining on a case by case basis the determinants for each country's performance, this study concludes that competitiveness in the manufacturing sectors of most countries in the region...
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The changing trade and revealed comparative advantages of Asian and Latin American manufacture exports
Bender, Siegfried (contributor); Li, Kui-Wai (contributor) - 2002
Changes in comparative advantage should reflect changes in factor endowment, but increasingly, changes in trade policies also affect a region's trade performance. Based on the arguments in Balassa's stages of comparative advantage thesis, this paper looks at the performance of manufacture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001681271
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The Changing Trade and Revealed Comparative Advantages of Asian and Latin American Manufacture Exports
Bender, Siegfried; Li, Kui-Wai - 2003
Changes in comparative advantage should reflect changes in factor endowment, but increasingly, changes in trade policies also affect a region's trade performance. Based on the arguments in Balassa's stages of comparative advantage thesis, this paper looks at the performance of manufacture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014119483
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Latin American Industrial Competitiveness and the Challenge of Globalization
Lall, Sanjaya; Albaladejo, Manuel; Moreira, Mauricio … - 2008
Manufacturing in Latin America and the Caribbean region (LAC) faces severe competitive stresses as it integrates into the global economy. It is not, on the whole, coping well. Though it was the first region in the developing world - in the post-war era - to liberalize on international trade and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014029509
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Fear of China : is there a future for manufacturing in Latin America?
Moreira, Mauricio Mesquita - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 35 (2007) 3, pp. 355-376
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Potential switchovers in comparative advantage : patterns of industrial convergence
Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - 2000
Although there exists a vast literature on convergence and divergence of income levels across countries or regions at the aggregate level, there is only little work on convergence and/or diver- gence processes of productivity and wage levels at the more disaggregated industrial level. These are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009750855
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The Deaths of Manufacturing Plants
Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J. Bradford - 2012
This paper examines the causes of manufacturing plant deaths within and across industries in the U.S. from 1977-1997. The effects of international competition from low wage countries, exporting, ownership structure, product diversity, productivity, geography, and plant characteristics are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014033733
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The impact of competition with China in the US market on innovation in Mexican manufacturing firms
Meza González, Liliana; Sepulveda, Jaime Marie - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 28 (2019), pp. 1-21
Using data from 6378 Mexican firms for the 2012–2013 period, this paper estimates the effect of competition with China … several variables, we find a U-curve shaped relationship between foreign competition (measured by the China effect) and the … firms are fighting for a larger market share with China in the US. …
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