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trade share around and after China's accession to the World Trade Organization. Based on this stylized fact we analyze the …Krugman's (1979, 1980) monoplistic competition model of trade showed that countries with more similar per-capita GDP … trade more with each other. Does this mean that developing countries shift trade towards developed countries as a result of …
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We quantify the causal effect of foreign investment on total factor productivity (TFP) using a new global firm-level database. Our identification strategy relies on exploiting the difference in the amount of foreign investment by financial and industrial investors and simultaneously controlling...
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We revisit the relationship between foreign investment and productivity of acquired firms. First, we construct a panel firm-level dataset for eight ad- vanced European countries covering domestic and foreign acquisitions together with detailed balance sheet information for the years 1999–2012....
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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...
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While existing literature points to a positive impact of FDI on host countries’ growth, little is known about how inward FDI contributes to economic volatility in the host country. In this paper, we investigate the FDI-output growth volatility nexus focusing on manufacturing sectors of OECD...
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There is a long debate among policymakers and academicians regarding whether assessments of international financial integration have significant growth benefits and whether such benefits compensate for the accompanied risks. Recent financial crisis has revived this debate. The previous empirical...
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This paper presents a stylized model of international trade and asset price bubbles. Its central insight is that …
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) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry …-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and input-output relations in the South. The main findings are: i … variables - education, governance or openness - result in virtuous growth cycles. These are smallest under an increase in trade …
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This paper uses a theory-based measure of productivity-based comparative advantage to examine the trade performance of … integral part of "Factory Asia." Moreover, the results from a quantitative model of trade show that revealed productivity …
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