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Processing Trade, Firm Heterogeneity and Export Behavior of Chinese Firms

Zhu, Min - 2016

In this paper, I have incorporated pure exporters into an asymmetric two-country general equilibrium model by Melitz (2003) to explain trade performance and export patterns in China. This model captures the coexistence of pure exporters, non-exporters and regular exporters in a single unified...

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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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Can multinationals withstand growing trade barriers?

Ghodsi, Mahdi; Vujanović, Nina; Landesmann, Michael - 2024

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are increasingly dealing with challenges shaped by the new geopolitical and trade environments. Besides traditional tariffs, exporting firms need to comply with regulatory non-tariff measures (NTMs) in the form of technical barriers to trade (TBTs) and sanitary...

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FDI Selection : Crowding Out and Distributional Effects

Glass, Amy Jocelyn; Saggi, Kamal - 1999

Oligopolists from two source countries invest in a common host country to take advantage of low costs. A selective subsidy to multinational production encourages foreign direct investment (FDI) from the favored country but crowds out FDI from the other source. Such a subsidy also shifts rents...

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Labour market power and the dynamic gains to openness reforms

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

We develop a dynamic general equilibrium framework with firm heterogeneity and monopsonistic labour markets, for quantification of the impact of trade and FDI liberalisation episodes. Firms make standard extensive margin investment choices into exporting and multinational statuses. The labour...

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Subsidizing firm entry in open economies

Pflüger, Michael; Südekum, Jens - 2009

Entrepreneurs who decide to enter an industry are faced with different levels of effective entry costs in different countries. These costs are heavily influenced by economic policy. What is not well understood is how international trade affects the government incentive to impact on entry costs,...

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Market access through bound tariffs

Sala, Davide; Schröder, Philipp J. H.; Yalcin, Erdal - 2009

WTO negotiations deal predominantly with bound - besides applied - tariff rates. But, how can reductions in tariffs ceilings, i.e. tariff rates that no exporter may ever actually be confronted with, generate market access? The answer to this question relates to the effects of tariff bindings on...

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The long Italian stagnation and the welfare effects of outsourcing

Zotti, Jacopo - 2015

economy has become highly integrated, and foreign outsourcing has become a standard practice for firms. While trade theory … production process abroad. Advances in globalization entail lower tariff rates of outsourcing. Contrary to the common wisdom, we …

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Market concentration and international outsourcing

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter - 2001

This paper shows that market concentration is positively related to outsourcing activities in a framework of Cournot … competition with strategic outsourcing in a first stage. The theoretical priors are confirmed by rank correlation coefficients …

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Strategic investment and international outsourcing in unionised oligopoly

Leahy, Dermot; Montagna, Catia - 2010

We critically consider the conventional belief that the attractiveness of international outsourcing lies in cheaper … labour costs overseas and that it offers a means to ‘escape’ the power of unions. We develop an oligopoly model in which … firms facing unionised domestic labour market choose between producing an intermediate in-house or outsourcing it to a non …

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