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The welfare effect of a free trade agreement in the presence of foreign direct investment and rules of origin
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Hiroshi Mukunoki 《Review of International Economics》2017,25(4):733-759
This paper investigates the welfare effect of forming a free trade agreement (FTA). To receive tariff‐free treatment, firms must comply with the rules of origin (ROO). Outside firms could undertake either market‐oriented or export‐platform foreign direct investments (FDIs). ROO have the following effects: (i) An infeasible FTA may become feasible by deterring outside firms' FDIs, (ii) an FDI of a less efficient firm could replace that of an efficient firm, or (iii) FDIs made before the FTA is concluded might be eliminated. These potential effects complicate the welfare effect of the FTA and could decrease the consumer surplus. 相似文献
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Do all exporters benefit the same from export promotion programs? Surprisingly, no matter how obvious this question may a priori be when thinking of the effectiveness of these programs, there is virtually no empirical evidence on how they affect export performance in different parts of the distribution of export outcomes. This paper aims at filling this gap in the literature. We assess the distributional impacts of trade promotion activities performing efficient semiparametric quantile treatment effect estimation on assistance, total sales, and highly disaggregated export data for the whole population of Chilean exporters over the 2002-2006 period. We find that these activities have indeed heterogeneous effects over the distribution of export performance, along both the extensive and intensive margins. In particular, smaller firms as measured by their total exports seem to benefit more from export promotion actions. 相似文献
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We develop a dynamic computable general equilibrium model with cross-border factor mobility to assess the impacts of a foreign wage shock and the effects of counteractive policy measures in Bangladesh. The model features migration of workers and foreign direct investment (FDI) in the ready-made garments (RMG) sector. Our simulation results show that returning migrants induced by a foreign wage fall would reduce household welfare by lowering wages and increasing unemployment, particularly for unskilled workers in the domestic labor market. To counteract this negative shock, FDI promotion in the RMG sector and a human-capital development program are considered. The former policy minimizes the negative impacts of the foreign labor market shock, while a combination of both policies is more equitable. 相似文献
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In many differentiated product industries, both traditional and “new economy” activities, vertically integrated firms also
supply inputs to apparent rivals in the downstream business. This generates heterogeneity between low- and high-sunk cost
suppliers with implications for entry and competitive conduct. The web hosting market is typical with primary suppliers operating
alongside resellers who rent server space from them. We explore the impact of competition in US hosting using a unique dataset
covering 15,000 packages offered by 3,500 firms. The results suggest price is sensitive to competitor clustering in quality
space; an outcome consistent with easy entry for resellers with ultra-low fixed costs.
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