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Exchange Rate Volatility and Trade among the Asia Pacific Countries

Baak, SaangJoon - Econometric Society - 2004

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of exchange rate volatility on exports among 14 Asia Pacific countries, where various measures to raise the intra-region trade are being implemented. The empirical tests using annual data for the period from 1980 to 2002 detect a significant...

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On the Role of Local Content Requirement in Defusing the Threat of Quid-Pro-Quo FDI

Hur, Jung; Riyanto, Yohanes E. - Econometric Society - 2004

endogenous foreign direct investment (FDI). The foreign firm chooses whether to export or to undertake FDI. The host country …

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Global Competition, Technology Spillovers and Firm Dynamics:

Ahn, Sanghoon - Econometric Society - 2004

aggregate productivity growth. The dynamism of Asian NIEs (Newly Industrializing Economies) revealed in their export …-level innovation/selection processes of export-oriented economies in Asia over economic fluctuations under intensifying global …

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Reversing the Perspective: Multinational Activity from Middle-Income Countries

Debaere; PEter - Econometric Society - 2004

The organization of production within the multinational corporation (MNC) depends on the relative factor abundance of the home country and the destination country. This proposition is at the heart of the theory of the multinational corporation (MNCs) that Helpman (1984, 1985) and Helpman and...

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Does Innovation Cause Exports? Evidence from Exogenous Innovation Impulses and Obstacles Using German Micro Data

Lachenmaier, Stefan; Woessmann, Ludger - Econometric Society - 2004

variations in innovations that are exogenous to export performance. Our identification strategy takes advantage of a unique micro … innovation behavior, their export share and other relevant control variables, but also whether specific impulses furthered their … credibly exogenous to the firmsâ€™ export performance as instruments for the actual innovative activity, we can identify …

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Trade Policy, Income Volatility and Welfare

Krebs, Tom; Krishna, Pravin - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk and uses the empirical estimates of this relationship to asses the welfare costs of changes in trade policy. The empirical analysis proceeds in two steps. First, longitudinal data on income of Mexican...

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The Economic Value of Cultural Diversity: Evidence from US cities

Ottaviano, GianMarco; Peri, Giovanni - Econometric Society - 2004

We use data on wages and rents in different U.S. cities to assess the amenity effects on production and consumption of cultural diversity as measured by diversity of countries of birth of city residents. We show that US-born citizens living in metropolitan areas where the share of foreign-born...

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Optimal Monetary Policy under Asset Market Segmentation

Singh, Rajesh; Lahiri, Amartya; Vegh, Carlos - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper studies optimal monetary policy in a small open economy under flexible prices. The paperâ€™s key innovation is to analyze this question in the context of environments where only a fraction of agents participate in asset market transactions (i.e., asset markets are segmented). In...

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Firm Location and the Creation and Utilization of Human Capital

Almazan, Andres; Motta, Adolfo De - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper presents a theory of location choice that draws on insights from the incomplete contracts and investment flexibility (real option) literatures. We provide conditions under which human capital is more efficiently created and better utilized within industrial clusters that contain...

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Global Factor Trade with Differentiated Factor Prices and Factor Intensities

Kwok, Yun-kwong - Econometric Society - 2004

The assumption of internationally identical factor intensity techniques may be one of the major causes of the HOV model's poor performance. To relax this assumption, detailed input-output data are required to compute the factor intensity techniques used in different countries; however, these...

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