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Reevaluating the role of trade agreements: does investment globalization make the WTO obsolete?

Blanchard, Emily J. - 2006

This paper demonstrates that international ownership can mitigate the terms of trade externalities that lead large countries to set inefficiently high tariffs, and may thereby substitute for negotiated tariff liberalization in eliminating the strategic manipulation of world prices. The policy...

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The economics of a multilateral investment agreement

Che, Jiahua; Willmann, Gerald - 2009

This paper models a multilateral agreement on investment (MAI) as a coordination device. Multinational enterprises can invest in any number of countries. Without a multilateral investment agreement, expropriation triggers an investment stop by the single MNE. Under a multilateral agreement,...

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Why do firms invest in the Baltic Sea Region

Kotilainen, Markku; Nikula, Nuutti - 2010

We have defined the Baltic Sea Region as consisting of the following countries and regions: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, and the regions of St Petersburg, Leningrad Oblast and Kaliningrad in Russia. We have investigated the factors af-fecting FDI in the...

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Foreign deficit and economic policy: The case of Mexico

Huerta González, Arturo - 2024

The article analyzes Mexico under globalization, particularly on the free mobility of capital. It argues that globalization has detrimentally impacted the productive and external sectors, causing the economy to become excessively reliant on volatile capital inflows from abroad. The Mexican...

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Different Antidumping Legislations within the WTO: What Can We Learn from China's Varying Market Economy Status?

Sandkamp, Alexander; Yalcin, Erdal - 2020

reduce targeted exports. We show that antidumping duties, on average, hit Chinese exporters harder than those of other … duties are calculated. Furthermore, we show that the type of imposed duty matters, as ad-valorem duties affect exports … effective in reducing imports independent of market economy status. …

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BITs with a bite? EU home investment effects of EU-China bilateral investment treaties

Kuusi, Tero; Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki - 2021

home investments. We consider BITs as "treatments" that provide further access to global value chains (GVCs). We identify … the causal impacts of the BITs on the relationship between home investments and the deepening of GVCs, with identification …-added growth more after the signing of a treaty. The negative link between non-Chinese investments and the pre-treaty exposure also …

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China in Europe: FDI trends and policy responses in the 17+1 region and Austria

Zavarská, Zuzana - 2022

Finding common ground across EU member states in responding to China's increasingly prominent position in the global economy has thus far proven a challenge. As the EU tries to find a 'third way' for dealing with its most important trading partners amid heightened US-China tensions, selected...

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A Comparative Analysis of the Trade and Industrial Policies of Ukraine and China in the Context of the Obor Initiative

Ostashko, Tamara; Olefir, Volodymyr; Venger, Vitalii; … - In: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 24 (2021) 2, pp. 119-136

growing its raw material exports to China and increasing its dependence on Chinese imports. On the other hand, China … exports mainly raw materials to China, while exports from China to Ukraine are dominated by investment and consumer goods. The … share of imports of goods and services in GDP in Ukraine averaged 54% (for comparison, in China, this parameter was 19%). In …

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How far is FDI relevant to India's foreign trade growth? An empirical investigation

Jana, Shib Sankar; Sahu, Tarak Nath; Pandey, Krishna Dayal - In: Journal of Economic Structures 9 (2020) 30, pp. 1-19

The study seeks to foster fresh empirical evidence on how FDI is relevant to the foreign trade growth in India under a time-varying parameter model with vector autoregres-sive specification. The Johansen's cointegration test documents a significant and posi-tive long-run co-movement between FDI...

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Reshaping trade ties with China in the aftermath of COVID-19

Gruebler, Julia - 2021

The effects of travel bans, and the disruption of production and shipping due to COVID-19 quickly rippled through global production and supply chains, even when the virus SARS-CoV-2 was still contained within East Asia. The global spread of the virus resulted in export restrictions on goods...

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