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Can multinationals withstand growing trade barriers?

Ghodsi, Mahdi; Vujanović, Nina; Landesmann, Michael - 2024

environments. Besides traditional tariffs, exporting firms need to comply with regulatory non-tariff measures (NTMs) in the form of … challenge to MNEs' subsidiaries' activity and performance than tariffs do. High-tech manufacturing subsidiaries of foreign MNEs …

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Labour Market Power and the Dynamic Gains to Openness Reforms

Jha, Priyaranjan; Rodríguez López, Antonio; Spencer, … - 2023

study the effect of reductions in tariffs and outward FDI taxes in both bilateral and unilateral contexts, examining steady …

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Partial collusion and foreign direct investment

Collie, David R.; Norman, George - 2013

We show that the static duopoly model in which firms choose between exporting and foreign direct investment is often a prisoners' dilemma game in which a switch from exporting to foreign direct investment reduces profits. By contrast, we show that when the game is repeated there is a range of...

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Tax competition for foreign direct investment

Haufler, Andreas; Wooton, Ian - 1997

We analyze tax competition between two countries of unequal size trying to attract a foreign-owned monopolist. When regional governments have only a lump-sum profit tax (subsidy) at their disposal, but face exogenous and identical transport costs for imports, then both countries will always...

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What determines whether preferential liberalization of barriers against foreign investors in services are beneficial or immizerising: Application to the case of Kenya

Balistreri, Edward J.; Jensen, Jesper; Tarr, David - 2015

Despite the fact that many modern preferential trade agreements include commitments to foreign investors in imperfectly competitive services sectors, the literature has not established conditions under which these agreements are beneficial or harmful. The authors fill that void by developing a...

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What determines whether preferential liberalization of barriers against foreign investors in services are beneficial or immizerising: Application to the case of Kenya

Balistreri, Edward J.; Jensen, Jesper; Tarr, David - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 9 (2015) 2015-42, pp. 1-134

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Multilateral trade liberalisation, foreign direct investment and the volume of world trade

Collie, David R. - 2010

A paradox in international trade is that multilateral trade liberalisation has resulted in increases in both the volume of world trade and the amount of foreign direct investment (FDI). This note presents a Cournot duopoly model with two regions, each consisting of two countries, and with an...

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The welfare effects of attracting foreign direct investment in the presence of unemployment

Ogawa, Yoshitomo; Ono, Yoshiyasu - 2016

We develop a 2×2×2 model with the following features: (1) one sector is perfectly competitive while the other is oligopolistic; (2) one country has unemployment while the other attains full employment; (3) oligopolists move internationally; and (4) the ownership of each oligopolist is...

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Trading Places: How Trade Policy Is Reshaping Multinational Firms' Location

Graziano, Alejandro G.; Sztajerowska, Monika; Volpe … - 2024

location patterns of multinational firms has actually taken place. To do so, we exploit the changes in U.S. import tariffs in … 2018-2019. The evidence indicates that firms have indeed responded to these new tariffs by adjusting the extensive margin …

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Trade Policy and Market Power: Firm-level Evidence

Asprilla, Alan; Berman, Nicolas; Cadot, Olivier; Jaud, … - 2016

developing and emerging countries over several years, merged with destination-product specific information on tariffs and non …-tariff measures is not isomorphic to that of tariffs: the pricing-to-market behavior we observe suggests that, while tariffs reduce …, tariffs, exchange rate, price discrimination …

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