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Foreign direct investment (FDI), the movement of long-term capital, has been increasingly important in the world economy since the early 1970s. Its growth rate outpaces that of trade in goods and gross national product (GNP) during the same period. Prior literature mostly focuses on either the causes (determinants) of FDI...
In this paper a data envelopment model is presented to evaluate short term investment decisions in the Dutch beam trawl and demersal fleet. We investigated how short run profit drives investment decisions and how a data envelopment analysis can be used to show what the optimal level of capital use...
The purpose of this paper is to provide background information
and some statistics relevant to a discussion on trade policy. The
focus is primarily on the impacts of imports on U.S. employment
levels. The paper consists of four parts, the first three of which
are theoretical in nature.
Parts 1...
