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What determines whether preferential liberalization of barriers against foreign investors in services are beneficial or immizerising : application to the case of Kenya

Balistreri, Edward J.; Jensen, Jesper; Tarr, David G. - 2015

Despite the fact that many modern preferential trade agreements include commitments to foreign investors in imperfectly competitive services sectors, the literature has not established conditions under which these agreements are beneficial or harmful. The authors fill that void by developing a...

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Tax competition for foreign direct investment

Haufler, Andreas; Wooton, Ian - 1997

We analyze tax competition between two countries of unequal size trying to attract a foreign-owned monopolist. When regional governments have only a lump-sum profit tax (subsidy) at their disposal, but face exogenous and identical transport costs for imports, then both countries will always...

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Unilateral climate policy and foreign direct investment with firm and country heterogeneity

Sanna Randaccio, Francesca; Sestini, Roberta; Tarola, … - 2014

complemented by mechanisms for promoting the international transfer of clean technologies. Welfare implications are also discussed. …

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Partial collusion and foreign direct investment

Collie, David R.; Norman, George - 2013

We show that the static duopoly model in which firms choose between exporting and foreign direct investment is often a prisoners' dilemma game in which a switch from exporting to foreign direct investment reduces profits. By contrast, we show that when the game is repeated there is a range of...

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What determines whether preferential liberalization of barriers against foreign investors in services are beneficial or immizerising : application to the case of Kenya

Balistreri, Edward J.; Jensen, Jesper; Tarr, David G. - 2015

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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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Trade costs, FDI incentives, and the intensity of price competition

Gori, Giuseppe Francesco; Lambertini, Luca; Tampieri, … - 2012

Empirical evidence shows that an increase in trade liberalisation causes an increase in foreign direct investments (FDIs). Here we propose an explanation to this apparent puzzle by exploiting the intensity of competition in a Bertrand duopoly with convex costs where the two firms enter in a new...

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Chapter 6. Putting Services and Foreign Direct Investment with Endogenous Productivity Effects in Computable General Equilibrium Models

Tarr, David G. - In: Handbook of computable general equilibrium modeling : …, (pp. 303-377). 2013

economics. The model shows that services liberalization yields welfare gains several multiples of the welfare gains obtained … from a constant to returns to scale model. Further, the welfare gains are supported by the econometric estimates of the … find that the projected welfare gains generated from liberalization of barriers against foreign direct investment are about …

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Labour market power and the dynamic gains to openness reforms

Jha, Priyaranjan; Rodríguez López, Antonio; Spencer, … - 2023

quantitative estimates to the perfectly competitive version. For instance, a bilateral trade liberalisation gives welfare gains …

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Capital ideas : modelling and measuring factors in the knowledge capital model

Davies, Ronald B.; Markusen, James R. - 2024 - Current Draft: June 27, 2024

One of the main challenges when analyzing multinational firms (MNEs) is that this group is comprised of a rich variety of firms engaged in a spectrum of activity. In response to the separate models describing one type of MNE or another, the Knowledge Capital model was developed in order to...

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