Topics in empirical international economics : a festschrift in honor of Robert E. Lipsey / / edited by Magnus Blomstrom and Linda S. Goldberg

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910959557603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago ; ; London, : University of Chicago Press, c2001
• ISBN: 9786612004759; 9781282004757; 1282004751; 9780226060859; 0226060853
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (283 p.)
• Collana: National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
• Altri autori (Persone): BlomstromMagnus <1952->; GoldbergLinda S; LipseyRobert E
• Disciplina: 337
• Soggetti: International economic relations; International trade
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Contains edited versions of papers from a conference held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Dec. 3-4, 1998.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Measuring Product-Market Integration -- 2. Inferring Relative Factor Price Changes from Quantitative Data -- 3. Multinational Firms -- 4. Determinants and Effects of Multinational Growth -- 5. Home-Country Effects of FDI -- 6. The Optimal Choice of Exchange Rate Regime -- 7. Revealing Comparative Advantage -- 8. U.S. Trade and Other Policy Options and Programs to Deter Foreign Exploitation of Child Labor -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this timely volume emanating from the National Bureau of Economic Research's program in international economics, leading economists address recent developments in three important areas. The first section of the book focuses on international comparisons of output and prices, and includes papers that present new measures of product market integration, new methodology to infer relative factor price changes from quantitative data, and an ongoing capital stock measurement ; project. The next section features articles on international trade, including such significant issues as deterring child labor exploitation in developing countries, exchange rate regimes, and mapping U. S. comparative advantage across various factors. The book concludes with research on multinational corporations and includes a discussion of the long-debated issue of whether growth of production abroad substitutes for or is complementary to production growth at home. The papers in the volume are dedicated to Robert E. Lipsey, who for more than a half century at the NBER, contributed significantly to the broad field of empirical international economics.