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Table of contents
Chapter 1. Generalized Ricardian growth bottlenecks and outward FDI : New evidence on the emerging multinationals
1.1 Introduction
1.2 On the Ricardian growth approach toward FDI
1.2.1 Is the Ricardian growth theory passé – or still relevant?
1.2.2 FDI from natural resource scarce industrialized economies: a vibrant research topic
1.2.2.1 Natural resource scarcity and growth
1.2.2.2 Resource seeking FDI: a Ricardian approach
1.2.2.3 A replication of the Japanese Ricardian-trap stage of transnationalism
1.2.2.4 Fuelling the industrial development and economic growth of “Asian Drivers”– China and India
1.2.3 Push effect of land and labour shortages
1.2.3.1 Push effect of land (housing market bottleneck) and industrial site shortages…
1.2.3.2 Push effect of labour shortage
1.3 An empirical follow-up on Ozawa’s macroeconomic theory of outward FDI: new evidence from catching-up countries
1.3.1 Econometric methodology and estimation’ results from an incomplete panel …
1.3.2 Additional tests and robustness checks…
1.3.3 Estimations and results from a balanced panel…
1.A Conclusion
Appendix for chapter 1
Chapter 2. North-South trade and reformulated Kojima’s «correspondence principle»: A Ricardian trade approach
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Ricardian trade approaches toward FDI : a review of literature
2.2.1 Direct investment as a capital flow
2.2.2 FDI, technology transfer, product-cycle and trade
2.2.3 FDI and unit labour costs
2.3 Macroeconomic approach to FDI
2.3.1 Kojima’s model of comparative investment profitabilities
2.3.1.1 Heckscher – Ohlin setting
2.3.1.2 Correspondence between comparative advantages and comparative profit rates
2.3.2 Pro-trade FDI and the flying geese model
2.3.2.1 The flying geese model: theory and evidence
2.3.2.2 FDI-cum-trade approach
2.3.2.3 Transferability of the flying geese model
2.4 North – South FDI and reformulated “correspondence principle”: a Ricardian approach
2.4.1 FDI and comparative advantage: a brief review of literature
2.4.1.1 Theoretical aspects
2.4.1.2 Some empirical aspects
2.4.2 Reformulating Kojima “correspondence principle”: a Ricardian setting
2.4.2.1 Conditions for North-South FDI
2.4.2.1.1 Technological superiority
2.4.2.1.2 Industry-specificity of capital
2.4.2.2 The reformulated correspondence principle and the technology-trade-welfare link
2.4.2.2.1 Closing the model
2.4.2.2.2 The reformulated “correspondence principle” and the welfare analysis
2.5 Conclusion
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Chapter 3. Technology transfer and North-South trade : a theoretical and empirical assessment
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Technology transfer, consumer preferences and welfare in a Ricardian model
3.2.1 The structure of consumer preferences and the terms of trade in the Ricardian model
3.2.1.1 Immiserizing specialization of developing countries
3.2.1.2 Introducing technology transfer in the Ricardian Model with CES utility function
3.2.2 Technology transfer, specialization and developing country’ welfare
3.2.2.1 A two-good setting
3.2.2.2 Extension of the model to n commodities
3.3 Mode of technology transfer and North-South trade and welfare: Revisiting Kojima – Ozawa propositions
3.3.1 Kojima and Ozawa macroeconomic approach to FDI and technology transfer
3.3.1.1 Kojima – Ozawa propositions on technology transfer
3.3.1.2 Free technology transfer
3.3.2 Northern exploitation of technological superiority through licensing and FDI: are Kojima and Ozawa right?
3.3.2.1 Technology transfer via licensing
3.3.2.1.1 Licensing
3.3.2.1.2 Welfare effect of technology transfer via licensing
3.3.2.2 Technology transfer via FDI
3.3.2.2.1 FDI and quasi-rents
3.3.2.2.2 Welfare effect of technology transfer via FDI
3.3.3 The effect of licensing and inward FDI on the developing country terms of trade: an empirical analysis
3.3.3.1 Measure of terms of trade
3.3.3.2 Model, estimation and results
3.3.3.3 Robustness check: alternative measures of real royalties
3.3.3.4 Estimations and results from a large incomplete panel
Chapter 4. Export sophistication of developing countries: an empirical follow-up on an extended DFS (1977) framework
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The link between openness and technological progress
4.2.1 Foreign presence, productivity and technological progress
4.2.2 Openness and technology diffusion
4.2.2.1 Technology diffusion through imports
4.2.2.2 Technology diffusion through exports
4.3 An extended continuum Ricardian setting
4.3.1 Goods and technology
4.3.2 Importing superior technology, technological inflow and diffusion
4.3.3 Technology gap within a comparative advantage framework
4.4 Linking theory to empirics
4.4.1 Measure of export sophistication
4.4.1.1 The North-South trade cut-off (z ~ )
4.4.1.2 Construction of the HHR export sophistication measure
4.4.2 Export sophistication: Testable estimation, data and econometric analysis
4.4.2.1 Model 1
4.4.2.2 Estimation and results
4.4.2.3 Model 2
4.4.2.4 Estimation and results
4.4.2.5 Additional tests using relative export sophistication
4.4.2.6 Estimation’ results from a large incomplete panel
4.4.3 Putting back the terms of trade deterioration at the forefront of the analysis
4.4.3.1 Is there a trap for the developing countries?
4.4.3.2 Testable estimation, data and econometric analysis
4.4.3.3 Instrumental variable estimation and exogeneity checks
Appendix for chapter 4
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