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Brazil's trade liberalization between 1990 and 1993, and its partial reversal in 1995, are used to study how reduced inward trade barriers affect productivity. The production function of Brazilian manufacturers is estimated at the ISIC3 two-digit level under various alternatives, including an...
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Chinese case is analyzed as an introductory example. FDI has increased regional inequalities in China after the economic …
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This paper quantifies the effect of the government-controlled appreciation of the Chinese renminbi (RMB) vis-à-vis the USD from 2005 to 2008 on the prices charged by US producers. As the RMB during that time was pegged to a basket of currencies, the empirical strategy must account for the fact...
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This paper studies the performance of China’s exports during the 2008—2009 financial crisis. It focuses on the speed at … which China’s exports were hit by this downturn. Product-country monthly exports data is utilized. It is found that GDP …
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In recent years wages in China have been rising and the yuan has appreciated, potentially eroding China’s cost … advantage in manufactures. This paper explores the evolution of China’s relative unit labor costs in manufacturing over 1998 …-2009. Between 1998 and 2003 China’s unit labor costs fell, but since 2003 they have increased both absolutely and relative to US …
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We provide an empirical analysis of host country determinants of Chinese outward FDI for the period 2003 to 2008, using data disaggregated by country and industry. We want to assess the relevance of market-seeking, resource-seeking and strategic asset seeking motivations suggested by the theory...
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ventures in China from 1998 to 2007—roughly a quarter of all international joint ventures in the world—we find, first, that … virtually absent in broad sectors that include economic activities for which China's FDI policy has prohibited joint ventures …
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This paper studies the performance of China's exports during the 2008—2009 financial crisis. It focuses on the speed at … which China's exports were hit by this downturn. Product-country monthly exports data is utilized. It is found that GDP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120072
In recent years wages in China have been rising and the yuan has appreciated, potentially eroding China's cost … advantage in manufactures. This paper explores the evolution of China's relative unit labor costs in manufacturing over 1998 …-2009. Between 1998 and 2003 China's unit labor costs fell, but since 2003 they have increased both absolutely and relative to US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120237
Chinese exports to the U.S. in the years surrounding China's 2001 WTO accession. Following predictions based on a model of …
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