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Competitiveness and External Trade Performance of the French Manufacturing Industry
Agénor, Pierre-Richard - 1995
This paper provides an assessment of competitiveness and external trade performance of the French manufacturing industry during the 1980s and early 1990s. The first part of the paper reviews developments in a broad range of competitiveness indicators. The analysis indicates that the...
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The inflexible structure of global supply chains
Bayoumi, Tamim A.; Barkema, Jelle; Cerdeiro, Diego A. - 2019
The rise of global supply chains has had profound effects on individual economies and the global trading system, thereby complicating standard macroeconomic analyses. For many of the new and challenging questions brought about by this phenomenon, such as its impact on the global business cycle...
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Measuring competitiveness in a world of global value chains
Bayoumi, Tamim A.; Appendino, Maximiliano; Barkema, Jelle; … - 2018
All common real effective exchange rate indexes assume trade is only in final goods, despite the growing presence of global supply chains. Extending effective exchange rate indexes to include such intermediate goods can imply radically different effective exchange rate weights, depending on the...
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Globalization Drives Strategic Product Switching
Moreno Badia, Marialuz - 2008
explicitly the role of export opportunities. Our results indicate that globalization does not affect firm exit significantly but …
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The Changing Structure of Japanese Trade Flows
International Monetary Fund - 1990
The changes to the structure of Japanese exports and imports in the second half of the 1980s departed significantly from past trends. Econometric analysis confirms that some of the structural changes—notably the importance of consumer goods trade—cannot be fully explained using conventional...
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How Does Industrialization Affect the Structure of International Trade? : The Japanese Experience in the Pacific Basin, 1975-85
Shirai, Sayuri - 1994
also uses actual trade data between Japan and Indonesia and between Japan and Korea …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398066
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Trade, jobs, and inequality
Beaton, Kimberly; Cerra, Valerie; Hadzi-Vaskov, Metodij - 2021
This paper examines the impact of trade on employment, wages, and other outcomes across countries and explores the conditions and policies that help spread the gains from trade more evenly throughout the population. We exploit a large global firm-level dataset to examine the impact of import...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012605685
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Exchange Rate Fluctuations, Pass-Through, and Market Share
International Monetary Fund - 1989
When the exchange rate fluctuates and the market exhibits hysteresis, planning horizons of domestic and foreign competitors will matter in determining pass-through as well as relative market shares of these firms. Using the Cournot duopoly model, it is shown that if the foreign exporter is a...
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Does import competition induce R&D reallocation? : evidence from the U.S.
Xu, Rui; Gong, Kaiji - 2017
We analyze the impact of rising import competition from China on U.S. innovative activities. Using Compustat data, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763631
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China'S Integration Into the World Economy : Implications for Developing Countries
Yang, Yongzheng - 2003
Although the rest of the world had waited a long time for China to open up, feelings were mixed when it actually did … (WTO), many of its trading partners are increasingly concerned that China’s competition in the world goods and capital … markets may adversely affect their own growth prospects. This paper examines the implications of China’s WTO accession for …
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