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Globalization of the automobile industry: traditional locations under pressure?

Spatz, Julius; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2002

-producers emerged in Asia, Latin America as well as Southern and Central Europe. In addition, the automobile industries of Germany … differed considerably between Germany, Japan and the United States. Economic restructuring was least pronounced in the US … automobile industry, largely due to the resistance of trade unions. As a result, the employment record and the world …

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Globalisation, wage adjustment, and unemployment: An empirical analysis based on the factor price frontier

Hornung, Dietmar; Schimmelpfennig, Axel; Wapler, Rüdiger - 1997

the United States and for Germany with the Johansen procedure. While the U. S. economy adjusts along a single factor price …

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Social security and redistribution within generations in an overlapping generations model

Lorz, Jens Oliver - 1999

An overlapping generations model is set up in this paper to analyze social security policy in a representative democracy with asymmetric information. The model considers not only redistribution between generations but also redistribution within generations according to individual labor incomes....

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Globalization, pass-through and inflation dynamic

Benigno, Pierpaolo; Faia, Ester - 2010

An important aspect of the globalization process is the increase in interdependence among countries through the deepening of trade linkages. This process should increase competition in each destination market and change the pricing behavior of firms. We present an extension of Dornbusch (1987)'s...

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International Diversification at Home and Abroad

Cai, Fang; Warnock, Francis E. - 2005

We analyze foreigners' and domestic institutional investors' positions in U.S. equities. Controlling for many factors, we uncover a common preference for large firms and firms that are diversified internationally. The domestic preference for internationally diversified firms implies that...

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Multinational Enterprises, International Trade, and Productivity Growth: Firm-Level Evidence from the United States

Keller, Wolfgang; Yeaple, Stephen R. - 2004

We estimate international technology spillovers to U.S. manufacturing firms via imports and foreign direct investment (FDI) between the years of 1987 and 1996. In contrast to earlier work, our results suggest that FDI leads to substantial productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI...

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Are unfair import laws unfair to developing countries: evidence from US antidumping actions 1990 - 2004

Morkre, Morris; Spinanger, Dean; Tran, Lien - 2008

This paper investigates the effects of U.S. AD actions on DCs. It first considers administrative actions by the U.S. Department of Commerce, which decides AD margins for countries. It then considers decision making by the U.S. International Trade Commission, which determines injury to domestic...

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Estimating the shape of economic crises under heterogeneity

Dovern, Jonas; Jannsen, Nils - 2009

During the ongoing financial crisis the analysis of similar historical crises has gained more and more attention among economic researchers and forecasters. Existing studies, however, do not tackle the immense heterogeneity that is present in cross-country samples in a formal and consistent way....

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TAFTA - a dead horse or an attractive open club?

Siebert, Horst - 2005

effects for third countries, and discusses how TAFTA fits into the WTO institutional rule system for the world economy and how …

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Do multinational enterprises contribute to convergence or divergence? A disaggregated analysis of US FDI

Mayer-Foulkes, David; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2005

It is a widely held belief that foreign direct investment (FDI) has a positive effect on economic growth. We test this hypothesis by performing convergence regressions derived from a model of endogenous technological change. We estimate the rate of growth in per-capita income, relative to the...

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