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as Japan, Spain, and the United States. Creating a new combined dataset on foreign direct investment (FDI) (covering … greenfield investments as well as mergers and acquisitions) we show that flows of FDI to Organization for Economic Cooperation …
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While there is considerable empirical evidence on the impact of liberalizing trade in goods, the effects of services …
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Singapore has been a powerful magnet for foreign direct investment and in recent years has also made significant investments abroad, especially in developing countries and increasingly in services. This paper analyzes the determinants of Singapore's investment using the Knowledge-Capital Model...
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Should the China-U.S. trade agreement prompt relief because it averts a damaging trade war or concern because selective … States and China would be better off under this "managed trade" agreement than if the trade war had escalated. However …-supplying neighbor, Mexico. Real incomes in the rest of world would decline by 0.16 percent and in China by 0.38 percent because of trade …
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integrate faster internally than vis-?-vis the rest of the world: policies applied to trade with other ASEAN countries were … virtually the same as those applied to trade with rest of the world. Moreover, the recent commitments scheduled under AFAS did … not produce significant liberalization and, in a few instances, services trade policy actually became more restrictive …
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The dynamism of air traffic markets in the Middle East obscures the persistence of restrictions on international competition. But how important are such restrictions for passenger traffic? This paper uses detailed data on worldwide passenger aviation to estimate the effect of air transport...
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Preferential trade agreements have boomed in recent years and extended their reach well beyond tariff reduction, to … content of preferential trade agreements to examine the trade effects of deep agreements and revisit the classic Vinerian … question of trade creation and trade diversion. The results indicate that deep agreements lead to more trade creation and less …
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As the fate of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) hangs in balance, an evaluation of what it offers could inform current decisions and shape future negotiations. The TPPs services component has been hailed as one of the agreement's major accomplishments. To assess the agreement's impact on...
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The authors investigate the relationship between the productivity of African manufacturing firms and their access to services inputs. They use data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey for over 1,000 firms in 10 Sub-Saharan African countries to calculate the total factor productivity of firms....
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The growth of India's manufacturing sector since 1991 has been attributed mostly to trade liberalization and more …
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