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The Role of Foreign Firm Characteristics, Absorptive Capacity and the Institutional Framework for FDI Spillovers

Journal of Banking and Financial Economics, 2015
A vast set of empirical evidence has been amassed over the past decade on the existence and direction of foreign direct investment (FDI)-generated horizontal and vertical spillovers.
Thomas Farole, Deborah Winkler
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Trade costs, 1870–2000 [PDF]

, 2008
What has driven trade booms and trade busts in the past century and a half? Was it changes in global output or in the costs of international trade? To address this question, we derive a micro-founded measure of aggregate bilateral trade costs based on a
Christopher M Meissner, David S Jacks, Dennis Novy, Irwin Douglas A   +3 more
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Turning Crisis into Opportunity: Unfolding Ukraine’s Trade Potential with the Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement

East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 2021
To offset the devastating effects of the trade war waged by the Russian Federation, Ukraine has undertaken laudable efforts since 2014 to negotiate new trade agreements with other states.
Iryna Bogdanova
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589 Who you gonna call? The Data Group: Creating a team and process for responding to evolving data needs of a limited health benefits program

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science
Objectives/Goals: The World Trade Center (WTC) Health Program (Program) Data Group was formed to address the increasing volume and complexity of analytics requests and to improve the Program’s data management capacity.
Danielle Stollar, Albeliz Santiago-Colón, Kendra Smith, Nicholas Chovancek, Ruiling Liu, Kevin Pressley, Rachael Shaw   +6 more
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Ecological analysis of world trade

, 2012
Ecological systems have a high level of complexity combined with stability and rich biodiversity. Recently, the analysis of their properties and evolution has been pushed forward on a basis of concept of mutualistic networks that provides a detailed ...
Bascompte, Bastolla, Burgos, Burgos, Burgos, Caldarelli, Central Intelligence Agency, D.L. Shepelyansky, Dorogovtsev, Ermann, Haldane, L. Ermann, May, May, May, Memmott, Olesen, Ott, Rezende, Rodríguez-Gironés, Saaverda, Vázquez   +21 more
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Structure and Response in the World Trade Network

, 2010
We examine how the structure of the world trade network has been shaped by globalization and recessions over the last 40 years. We show that by treating the world trade network as an evolving system, theory predicts the trade network is more sensitive to
A. Alesina, B. S. Everitt, Jiankui He, Michael W. Deem, P. B. Slater, T. Friedman   +5 more
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Persistent mental and physical health impact of exposure to the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center terrorist attacks

Environmental Health, 2019
Background Asthma, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression have each been linked to exposure to the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center (WTC) terrorist attacks (9/11).
Hannah T. Jordan, Sukhminder Osahan, Jiehui Li, Cheryl R. Stein, Stephen M. Friedman, Robert M. Brackbill, James E. Cone, Charon Gwynn, Ho Ki Mok, Mark R. Farfel   +9 more
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Efficiency of public spending in education, health, and infrastructure: an international benchmarking exercise

Journal of Applied Economics
This paper gauges public spending efficiency on human and physical capital formation using non-parametric methods. Input-inefficiency and output-inefficiency are scored across 195 countries using 2010-2020 data.
Santiago Herrera, Hironobu Isaka, Abdoulaye Ouedraogo   +2 more
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World Trade & U.S. Jobs [PDF]

, 1989
[Excerpt] It has become obvious to everyone in and around the U.S. labor movement that our problems involve the global arena. Hundreds of thousands of trade unionists have seen their employers shut down plants and shift production overseas.
Bensman, David
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Hub and spoke trade agreements under oligopoly with asymmetric costs [PDF]

, 2011
Using an oligopoly model of trade, we study the individual and world welfare implications of hub and spoke trade agreements. Under a hub and spoke regime, the hub country can benefit at the expense of the spokes relative to free trade.
Yildiz, Halis Murat
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