Trade Among Multinationals : Intra-Industry Trade and National Competitiveness.
In the 1980s many developed countries were increasingly tempted to improve their national competitiveness by adopting protectionist policies. This book demonstrates that such policies would be mistaken and do serious damage to industries in the countries concerned. This book, based on extensive orig...
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Taylor and Francis,
2013
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Table of Contents:
- TRADE AMONG MULTINATIONALS Intra-Industry Trade and National Competitiveness; Copyright; TRADE AMONG MULTINATIONALS Intra-Industry Trade and National Competitiveness; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; About the Author; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Introduction; International Cross-trade in Manufactured Goods; Cross-trade and the Intra-industry Trade Paradigm; Resource Reallocation in the Models; Appropriate Use of Each Model; Canadian Cross-trade; Notes; 2. The Canadian Economic and Trade Environment; The Changing Environment for Manufacturers; Canada and World Trade Developments.
- Prior Developments Affecting Costs and ProductivityForeign MNEs, Productivity and Trade; Cost Reduction and Intra-industry Trade; Summary; Notes; 3. Conceptual Issues and Prior Studies; Introduction; IIT Themes in the Literature; A Dissenting View on IIT; Antecedent Studies on Canadian IIT; Canadian IIT in an International Context; Canadian IIT in a Domestic Context; Domestic IIT; Census Data Measures; Input-output Data Measures; IIT and Intra-firm Trade; The Transfer Price Issue; Summary; Notes; 4. Analysis of Data; Introduction; Description of Data Sources; Overview of the Statistics.
- Summary of Overview of Trade DataExport Activity, 1974-9; Tests on the Import and Export Propensities; Comparisons of Import and Export Propensities; Extent of IIT; Summary of T-tests on Import and Export Propensities; Scale and Specialisation; Summary; Notes; 5. Policy Issues; Introduction; Extent of IIT; Caveats on IIT; Scale and Specialisation; Policy Implications of the IIT and HOS Paradigms; Competitive Adaptations in Resource Allocation and Trade Flows; MNEs, Intra-firm Trade and IIT; Purchasing Practices and Transfer Prices; Summary; Notes.
- Appendix: Description and Treatment of Issues Related to DataImport Propensities and Double-count of Enterprises; Comparisons of Data with Other Published Sources; T-tests on Statistics; The IIT Indices; Critical Values for the Indices; Data Related to Tables 4.21 and 4.22; Note; Bibliography; Index.
