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Governance, Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Welfare

Maiti, Dibyendu S.; Mukherjee, Arijit - 2010

the literature on trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) hardly pays attention to this aspect. We develop a simple … model to show how better governance affects inward FDI and domestic welfare. We find that whether better governance in the … domestic country attracts inward FDI depends on the way it affects the costs of the firms. The effect of better governance is …

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The Trade and Welfare Effects of Mergers in Space

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter H. - 2021

This paper analyzes the consequences of cross-border mergers in a spatial framework, thereby distinguishing three channels of influence: a price increase due to the elimination of product market competition, an adjustment in plant location which reduces overall transportation cost expenditures,...

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Behaviour of Belgian firms in the context of globalisation : lessons from the conference on “International Trade : Threats and Opportunities in a Globalised World”

Dhyne, E.; Dresse, L.; Fuss, C.; Piette, Ch. - In: Economic Review (2011) I, pp. 73-88

The article summarises the main lessons of the Bank’s 2010 conference which focused on international trade and foreign direct investment. The research is based on a microeconomic approach to the behaviour of Belgian firms, with reference to developments in the scientific literature on the...

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Trade in intermediate producer services under imperfect competition

Islyami, Aidan - 2009

In this paper a stylized CGE model is constructed to study the impact of liberalization of barriers for foreign providers of intermediate producer services under imperfect competition on the welfare, the downstream industry output, the prices of the factors of production and the pattern of...

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The Export-Magnification Effect of Offshoring

Kleinert, Joern - 2012

In this paper we provide a new explanation for the increase in world trade over the last two decades. We show analytically in a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous firms that a fall in variable offshoring costs boosts trade in differentiated final goods through an intra-industry...

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Foreign ownership and the export and import propensities of developing-country firms

Boddin, Dominik; Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2015

This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership affects the likelihood of manufacturers in developing countries to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for differences across firms in terms of labor...

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Do multinational retailers affect the export competitiveness of host countries?

Cheptea, Angela - 2014

-food sector. The adopted approach draws on recent empirical evidence of the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the …, retail sector FDI generates productivity gains at the firm level: local suppliers of multinational retailers benefit from the …

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World market access of emerging-market firms : the role of foreign ownership and access to external finance

Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2014

This paper uses micro-data fromtheWorld Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for differences...

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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 …, and also shows how endogenizing spillovers affect the home firm fs decision on plant location. In the m-FDI …

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Do exporting firms benefit from retail internationalization? : [evidence from France]

Cheptea, Angela; Emlinger, Charlotte; Latouche, Karine - 2015

We explore the link between globalization of the retail sector and the export activity of firms from their origin country. In a previous paper (Cheptea et al., 2015), we showed that exporting firms from countries with internationalized retail companies benefit more from this process than firms...

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