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Foreign Direct Investment and Host-Country Trading Blocs
Heinrich, Jeff; Eby Konan, Denise - In: Journal of Economic Integration 15 (2000), pp. 565-584
We consider the impact of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) on horizontal foreign direct investment (FDI) coming from parent countries outside the PTA. While easier access to a larger market due to a PTA may justify new FDI, preexisting investments may be rationalized as firms concentrate...
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Trade and International Transport Services: an Analytical Framework
Andriamananjara, Soamiely - In: Journal of Economic Integration 19 (2004), pp. 604-625
International Transport Services (ITS) play an important role in influencing international trade flows. This paper develops an analytical framework in which ITS costs are endogenously determined. It shows that ITS sector liberalization foster international trade very much the same way tariff...
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Armington Meets Melitz: Introducing Firm Heterogeneity in a Global CGE Model of Trade
Zhai, Fan - In: Journal of Economic Integration 23 (2008), pp. 575-604
Traditional CGE models with Armington assumption fail to capture the extensive margin of trade, thereby underestimate the trade and welfare effects of trade opening. To address this problem, this paper introduces the Melitz (2003) theoretical framework with firm heterogeneity and fixed exporting...
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Trade Policies and Outsourcing for Market Dominance
Chen, Yao-Tung - In: Journal of Economic Integration 22 (2007), pp. 382-396
outsourcing part of production is a means used to obtain the market dominance in the host country. The market dominance could be … granted by the host country to a foreign firm as a reward for its transferring of technology through outsourcing. It is found …
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Outsourcing, Income Distribution, and Unemployment
Yabuuchi, Shigemi - In: Journal of Economic Integration 26 (2011), pp. 705-720
This paper examines the effects of outsourcing on employment and unemployment and income distribution in an economy … engages in outsourcing and consequently experiences widespread unemployment. The main findings of this paper are as follows …: (i) If the outsourced factor is not produced domestically, outsourcing increases the rural wage rate (and the expected …
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The Effects of Globalisation on Unions and the Nature of Collective Bargaining
Gaston, Noel - In: Journal of Economic Integration 17 (2002), pp. 377-396
a more wage-oriented bargaining posture if their members are faced with a greater outsourcing threat. The model is able … to rationalise the empirically insignificant effects of outsourcing on wages. The findings are also consistent with the …
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Dynamic Effects of MERCOSUR: An Assessment for Argentina
Calfat, Germán; G. Flôres Jr., Renato - In: Journal of Economic Integration 18 (2003), pp. 482-505
We evaluate the potential dynamic effects of MERCOSUR on the Argentinean economy. Two approaches, already used with other regional integration agreements, are applied for measuring medium and long-term effects. Special care has been taken in separating intra from extra zone effects. All...
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Economic Integration and the Evolution of Trade: A Geometric Interpretation of Trade Measures
J.R. Elliott, Robert; K.M. Azhar, Abdul - In: Journal of Economic Integration 19 (2004), pp. 651-666
The increase in global trade and the ongoing erosion of trade barriers makes the analysis of trade patterns one of the key areas in international economics. Much of the post-war expansion of trade took the form of intra-industry trade (IIT). This paper presents a simple geometric tool to analyse...
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Regionalism and Incentives for Multilateralism
Andriamananjara, Soamiely - In: Journal of Economic Integration 15 (2000), pp. 1-18
The paper studies the effects of regional integration on the incentives of mem - bers and non-members to undertake multilateral trade liberalization. Using a three- country political economy model with imperfect competion, it shows how regionalism can undermine support for multilateralism....
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Endogenous Growth and South-North Trade
Goo, Youngwan; Lee, Seonghoon - In: Journal of Economic Integration 17 (2002), pp. 554-569
In this article, we develop an endogenous growth model to analyze the impact of knowledge spillovers, the disparity in initial endowments and production technologies on economic growth of two trading regions. We found that the growth rates of technology development of the two regions become...
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