Abstract. In this paper, we explore the linkages between export‐market
participation and productivity performance in Canadian manufacturing plants. We
also examine differences in the relationship between exporting and productivity
for foreign‐controlled as opposed to domestic‐controlled plants, and between
younger and older plants. Export participation is associated with improved
productivity. Th... hiện toàn bộ
Some believe that relatively lenient environmental standards give developing
countries a comparative advantage in pollution–intensive goods. Thus, freer
trade will harm their environment. This paper brings together the literature on
openness and growth, and on the environmental Kuznet’s curve, to demonstrate
that the opposite may be true. A simultaneous–equations system is derived which
incorporat... hiện toàn bộ
Abstract. In this paper we analyse productivity spillovers from foreign direct
investment using firm‐level panel data for U.K. manufacturing industries from
1992 to 1999. We investigate spillovers through horizontal, backward, and
forward linkages; distinguish spillovers from export‐oriented vs
domestic‐market‐oriented FDI; and allow for differing effects, depending on
domestic firms' export acti... hiện toàn bộ