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The International Operations of National Firms: A Study of Direct Foreign Investment

, 1976
The story about the delayed publication of this seminal work is by now probably familiar to most specialists in international business. As reported in his laudatory introduction, Professor Kindleberger recommended Hymer's doctoral dissertation for ...
S. Hymer
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The future of dispute resolution in international trade

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Given ongoing dysfunction of the World Trade Organization's Appellate Body, the focus of this article is on the future of trade dispute resolution, with evaluation of two questions: (i) What is the current status of WTO dispute resolution as compared to that conducted through existing preferential trade agreements (PTAs)? and (ii) What are the
Ian Sheldon, Daniel C. K. Chow
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Increasing sedentary time, minimum dietary energy requirements, and food security assessment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract We compute corrections for sedentary behavior in physical activity levels (PALs) and incorporate them along with corrections for over estimation of basal metabolic rates (BMRs) into threshold caloric intakes, known as minimum dietary energy requirements (MDERs).
Jacob Michels, Yacob Abrehe Zereyesus, John Beghin   +2 more
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Economic Literacy: An International Comparison [PDF]

The Economic Journal, 2010
This article uses international panel data on 55 countries from 1995 to 2008, merging indicators of economic literacy with a large set of macroeconomic and institutional variables. Results show that there is substantial heterogeneity of financial and economic competence across countries, and that human capital indicators (PISA test scores and college ...
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Dynamic changes in the structure and concentration of the international grain and oilseed trading industry

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper aims to describe the evolution of firm and industry strategies and to analyze detailed transaction data on the structure of the international grain trading industry. Specifically, data are developed from vessel nominations, and these were used to derive measures of concentration and determine how these change across selected ...
William W. Wilson, David W. Bullock, Isaac Dubovoy   +2 more
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What matters for agricultural trade? Assessing the role of trade deal provisions using machine learning

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper employs machine learning to determine which preferential trade agreement (PTA) provisions are relevant to agricultural trade patterns and the factors that may influence their adoption. Utilizing the three‐way gravity model, we apply plug‐in Lasso regularized regression to pinpoint predictive PTA provisions for agricultural trade ...
Stepan Gordeev, Jeremy Jelliffe, Dongin Kim, Sandro Steinbach   +3 more
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The United States Orange Industry: Declining Production and Climbing Imports

EDIS
The US orange industry has been grappling with declining production since the early 2000s due to the outbreak of the Huanglongbing disease and various other challenges. To meet the market demand, the United States increasingly relies on imports, notably
A. Malek Hammami, Yi Li, Zhengfei Guan
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Exploring the relationship between growth in online shopping and multichannel food consumers

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract During the pandemic, many food retailers began offering online shopping options, primarily in reaction to rising consumer demand for such options, which was a response to supply chain disruptions and fear of contagion and food scarcity.
Mackenzie Gill, Dawn Thilmany
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ECONOMIC FUTURE OF GLOBALIZATION

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2018
The article analyzes the perspectives of globalization from theoretical premises of international economics and international political economy. For decades globalization has been looking like a non-alternative direction of economic development of the ...
A. G. Oleynov
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Technological change, capital deepening, and agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) growth: Cross‐country comparison of 18 OECD countries

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper employs the data envelope analysis (DEA) to assess technological progress and its impact on agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) across 18 the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries from 1973 to 2015.
Yu Sheng
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