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One issue the literature neglects is how outsourcing stimulates trade (imports, exports and foreign direct investment), thereby affecting political relations. However, at least as far back as 1750, economic philosophers such as Baron de Montesquieu in his L'Esprit des Lois, argued, "peace is the...
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One issue the literature neglects is how outsourcing stimulates trade (imports, exports and foreign direct investment), thereby affecting political relations. However, at least as far back as 1750, economic philosophers such as Baron de Montesquieu in his L'Esprit des Lois, argued, peace is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002452365
Foreign firms face punitive antidumping duties if they do not cooperate with the US Department of Commerce (DOC). For … example, 37% of all foreign firms involved in antidumping investigations in the US chose faced quot;facts availablequot …; margins for the 1995-2002 period, with average antidumping duties of 31% for cooperating foreign firms, compared to 87% for …
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Personal freedom is highly valued by many and a central element of liberal political philosophy. Although personal freedom is frequently associated with electoral democracy, developments in countries such as Hungary, Poland, Turkey and Russia, where elected populist leaders with authoritarian...
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Personal freedom is highly valued by many and a central element of liberal political philosophy. Although personal freedom is frequently associated with electoral democracy, developments in countries such as Hungary, Poland, Turkey and Russia, where elected populist leaders with authoritarian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011995261
This paper examines the robustness of explanatory variables in cross-country economic growth regressions. It employs a novel approach, Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE), which constructs estimates as a weighted average of OLS estimates for every possible combination of included...
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negative effect through reduced openness vis-a-vis the rest of the world. We estimate the growth effects that would have …
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and firms across different countries. Motivated by the large share of the world's technology investments made by firms …
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The impact of international trade, or “openness”, on economic growth is difficult to quantify because of reverse causality. In this paper, I use recent advances in gravity equation estima- tion to generate a geography-based instrument for openness a la Frankel and Romer (1999). In contrast...
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