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作者：Kim, Woochan; Sung, Taeyoon; Wei, Shang-Jin
作者单位：Columbia University; KDI School of Public Policy & Management; Yonsei University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Disparity between control and ownership rights gives rise to the risk of tunneling by the controlling shareholder, and is prevalent in many emerging market economies and present in some developed countries. At the same time, international investors come from different countries whose home markets are characterized by varying degrees of control-ownership disparity. This paper studies whether this difference in investors' home countries affects their portfolio choice in an emerging market. It co...
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作者：Pica, Giovanni; Mora, Jose V. Rodriguez
作者单位：University of Edinburgh; University of Salerno
摘要：We study the distributional effects of globalization within a model of heterogeneous agents where both managerial talent and knowledge of the local economic environment are required in order to become a successful entrepreneur. Agents willing to set up a firm abroad incur a learning cost that depends on how different the foreign and domestic entrepreneurial environments are. In this context, we show that globalization fosters FDI and raises wages, output and productivity. However, not everybod...
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作者：di Giovanni, Julian; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Ranciere, Romain
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; International Monetary Fund; National Bureau of Economic Research; Paris School of Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
摘要：Existing estimates of power laws in firm size typically ignore the impact of international trade. Using a simple theoretical framework, we show that international trade systematically affects the distribution of firm size: the power law exponent among exporting firms should be strictly lower in absolute value than the power law exponent among non-exporting firms. We use a dataset of French firms to demonstrate that this prediction is strongly supported by the data, both for the economy as a wh...
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作者：Asiedu, Elizabeth; Lien, Donald
作者单位：University of Kansas; University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio
摘要：Empirical studies that examine the impact of democracy on foreign direct investment (FDI) assume that the relationship between democracy and FDI is the same for resource exporting and non-resource exporting countries. This paper examines whether natural resources in host countries alter this relationship. We estimate a linear dynamic panel-data model using data from 112 developing countries over the period 1982-2007. We find that democracy promotes FDI if and only if the value of the share of ...
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作者：Ederington, Josh; McCalman, Phillip
作者单位：University of Kentucky; University of California System; University of California Santa Cruz; University of Melbourne
摘要：A perennial case for industrial policy is based on the protection of young or emerging industries. Despite a natural association with concepts of life cycles, industrial policy has not been analyzed in the context of an industry life-cycle model. In particular, an important life-cycle characteristic, the potential for very large changes in the rate of net entry, is ignored. In this paper, we demonstrate how the impact of industrial policy depends critically on the entry and exit dynamics withi...
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作者：McCaig, Brian
作者单位：Australian National University
摘要：Can a developing country reduce poverty by gaining increased market access to a large, rich country? The 2001 U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) provides an excellent opportunity to examine this question as, unlike other bilateral trade agreements, the U.S. tariff cuts were not influenced by Vietnamese industries. Using variation in the structure of the labor force across provinces prior to the trade agreement, I construct provincial measures of U.S. tariffs. To address concerns over...
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作者：Long, Cheryl; Zhang, Xiaobo
作者单位：CGIAR; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Colgate University
摘要：China's rapid industrialization despite the lack of a well developed financial system seems to defy the conventional thinking on the role of finance in development. This paper tries to explain the puzzle from the clustering point of view. Based on firm-level data from two recent censuses, we find that within industrial clusters: finer division of labor lowers the capital barriers to entry; closer proximity makes the provision of trade credit among firms easier. With less reliance on external f...
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作者：Peri, Giovanni
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：A framework that uses a Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) production function with skill differentiation and integrated national labor markets has predictions for the employment effect of immigrants at the local level. The employment (rather than wage) response to immigration by skill in a state reveals the production substitutability-complementarity between native and immigrant labor. This, in turn, reveals the degree to which immigrants stimulate or depress the demand for native labo...
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作者：Hanson, Gordon; Xiang, Chong
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; Purdue University System; Purdue University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：We extend Melitz (2003) to allow for both global and bilateral fixed export costs. If global (bilateral) export costs dominate, the average sales ratio (import sales per product variety/domestic sales per variety), decreases (increases) in variable (fixed) trade barriers, due to adjustment along the intensive (extensive) margin of trade. Using novel data on bilateral US movie exports we find that (i) variation in box-office revenues per movie is much larger than in the number of movies exporte...
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作者：Chang, Pao-Li; Lee, Myoung-Jae
作者单位：Singapore Management University; Korea University; Australian National University
摘要：This paper re-examines the GATT/WTO membership effect on bilateral trade flows, using nonparametric methods including pair-matching, permutation tests, and a Rosenbaum (2002) sensitivity analysis. Together, these methods provide an estimation framework that is robust to misspecification bias, allows general forms of heterogeneous membership effects, and addresses potential hidden selection bias. This is in contrast to most conventional parametric studies on this issue. Our results suggest larg...
