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Institutional reform and global value chains
Egger, Hartmut; Fischer-Thöne, Christian - 2021
This paper sets up a model of trade, in which two countries with differing levels of technology specialize on the production of subsets of the global value chain. In the open economy equilibrium, the technologically backward country exports intermediates in exchange for imports of a homogeneous...
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Endogenous FDI spillovers from Japan to Russia and China with spillover-prevention costs
Matsubara, Kiyoshi - 2014
This paper explores the role of FDI-spillover prevention costs in the strategic choice for a MNE of a developed country such as Japan about whether it perform FDI to an emerging economy such as Russia and China and about a degree of FDI spillovers that it allows. After discussing the exogenous...
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Home-market and cost effects of international product-quality allocation
Matsubara, Kiyoshi - 2012
This paper analyzes the behavior of firm(s) serving its products to two countries having different consumers in terms of their valuation of product quality. The home-market of firm(s) is a developed country with small population but high valuation of product quality, while the foreign is a...
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Product quality in different markets and cost structure
Matsubara, Kiyoshi - 2010
This paper analyzes the behavior of monopoly firm serving its products to two countries. The main focus of this paper is on how the product-quality choice in different markets are related with the cost structure of the firm. First, This paper examines the effects of production and R&D costs on...
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Domestic product standards and free trade areas : implications for the EU-Japan FTA
Yanase, Akihiko; Kurata, Hiroshi - 2014
affects the optimal levels of external tariffs and standards, which are chosen by each country, and national welfare. In light … the several forms of PTAs, we focus on free trade areas (FTAs), where each member country chooses its external tariffs …
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The importance of special safeguard tariffs (SSG) for Brazilian sugar exports : working paper submitted to the 2015 ERSA Congress
Costa, Cinthia Cabral da; Burnquist, Heloisa Lee; … - 2015
an increase in Brazilian sugar exports in the absence of SSG tariffs was calculated and also the overall impact on … raw sugar in EU and 30% for white sugar in US in years 1999 and 2002, which the additional tariffs were highest. In period … tariffs applied by EU were always higher than those applied by US. We estimated that the impact of the value of sugar that was …
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Robots, reshoring, and the lot of low-skilled workers
Krenz, Astrid; Prettner, Klaus; Strulik, Holger - 2019
We propose a theoretical framework to analyze the offshoring and reshoring decisions of firms in the age of automation. Our theory suggests that increasing productivity in automation leads to a relocation of previously offshored production back to the home economy but without improving...
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Which factors determine the utilization of preferential tariff rates?
Legge, Stefan; Lukaszuk, Piotr - 2019
The number of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements has surged in recent years. In order to benefit from preferential tariff rates,firms must apply and comply with rules of origin requirements. This is costly and explains why preference utilization rates (PUR) are far below 100 percent. In...
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The motives for the FDI location choice in the 'old' and 'new' Europe
Serwicka, Ilona Elzbieta; Jones, Jonathan; Wren, Colin M. - 2014
This paper adds to the scarce cross-country evidence on FDI location decisions between the EU-15 Member States and the ten new Members that joined the European Union (EU) in 2004 and 2007 from the Central and East European Countries (CEECs). To capture the discrete nature of the location choice,...
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The role of geography and institutions in determining FDI flows into Italian Provinces
Di Battista, Attilio - 2013
This paper describes the determinants of FDI location among Italian provinces, focusing on the role of market potential (in terms of market access to Mediterranean and European countries) and institutions (presence of Mafia-type crime, corruption of public officers, inefficiency of the labour...
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