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Accounting for Outward Direct Investment from Hong Kong and Singapore : Who Controls What?

Low, Linda - 1996

), we survey information on outward investors from Hong Kong and Singapore with the aim of illuminating the implications of … investment by foreign firms in Hong Kong and Singapore often involves sub- stantial contributions from local staff and partners … of foreign-controlled Hong Kong or Singapore investors suggested that many of the investors were acting as part of an …

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The Tyranny of Numbers : Confronting the Statistical Realities of the East Asian Growth Experience

Young, Alwyn - 1994

of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. Participation rates, educational levels and (with the exception of Hong … exports in the newly industrializing economies of East Asia is virtually unprecedented, the growth of total factor …

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Internationalized Production in World Output

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1995

,' which are about 60 percent of world output. Given all the attention that 'globalization' has received from scholars …

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Export versus FDI

Helpman, Elhanan - 2003

This paper builds a multi-country, multi-sector general equilibrium model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to serve foreign markets either through exports or local subsidiary sales (FDI). These modes of market access involve different relative costs, some of which are sunk while...

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Expansion Strategies of U.S. Multinational Firms

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2001

Recent theoretical work tends to characterize multinational enterprises as arising through either horizontal or vertical foreign direct investment (FDI). Empirical research tends to find stronger support for the former than for the latter. In this paper, we use recent, detailed data on U.S....

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Retail Globalization and Household Welfare : Evidence from Mexico

Atkin, David - 2015

The arrival of global retail chains in developing countries is causing a radical transformation in the way that households source their consumption. This paper draws on a new collection of Mexican microdata to estimate the effect of foreign supermarket entry on household welfare. The richness of...

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Scale, Scope, and the International Expansion Strategies of Multiproduct Firms

Yeaple, Stephen Ross - 2013

A growing literature seeks to understand how the characteristics of firms shape the manner in which they serve foreign markets. We consider an environment in which multiproduct firms can sell their products in multiple countries from multiple locations. We show that there are strong empirical...

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Foreign Technology Adoption as a Flying Propeller

Hu, Yunfang; Kunieda, Takuma; Nishimura, Kazuo; Wang, Ping - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We construct a dynamic general equilibrium model of foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign technology adoption, incorporating adoption barriers, international technology spillover, and relative price advantages. A higher FDI conversion efficacy, a lower adoption barrier, or a stronger...

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Globalisation, Pass-through and the Optimal Policy Response to Exchange Rates

Devereux, Michael B. - 2014

Most central banks in Asia have actively used sterilised foreign exchange intervention as a policy tool to smooth … Asia is decreasing …

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Surfing the Waves of Globalization : Asia and Financial Globalization in the Context of the Trilemma

Aizenman, Joshua - 2010

Using the "trilemma indexes" developed by Aizenman et al. (2008) that measure the extent of achievement in each of the three policy goals in the trilemma--monetary independence, exchange rate stability, and financial openness--we examine how policy configurations affect macroeconomic...

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