The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of country-of-origin image, consumer ethnocentrism and animosity on the purchase of domestic and foreign products in China. AMOS software was used to analyze the data from the questionnaire survey. The results indicate that the effects of consumer ethnocentrism are significant in the case of domestic and foreign products in China, and the hypo...

Facundo Albornoz, Matthew A. Cole, Robert J.R. Elliott and Marco G. Ercolani Department of Economics, University of Birmingham, UK 3 August 2009 Abstract Using Argentinean firm-level data, we identify and quantify the factors that influence the environmental actions of Argentinean firms. We examine various aspects of a firm‟s environmental actions (EAs), including the range of EAs adopted, the ...

In this article the attempt to examine the effects of tax policy in the framework of two-sector model with factor markets and intermediate goods is considered. In this connection the difference between intermediate and final goods is introduced. Model was extended to introduce the imported and domestic intermediate goods and production functions to produce domestic goods and exports. The basic ...

We examine the relationship between the degree of foreign ownership and performance of recipient firms, using of panel of 21,582 Chinese firms over the period 2000-2005. We find that joint-ventures perform better than wholly foreign owned and purely domestic firms. Although productivity and profitability initially rise with foreign ownership, they start declining once foreign ownership reaches ...

This paper examines the relationship between foreign direct investment, openness and economic growth in Sudan during the period 1972-2011 using Granger causality and Johansen co-integration techniques to analyze the relationship and direction of causality between the variables. The study used autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to cointegration analysis proposed by Pesaran and Shin (...

The paper examines the development of foreign trade institutions and policies in Central European countries that were invited to negotiate accession to the EU. The dismantling of state trading has dramatically liberalized conditions in market access. Yet, with the exception of Estonia and to a lesser extent the Czech Republic, they have followed the policy of bilateral rather than multilateral ...

Whether and what type of the lobbying-induced trade policies can improve the domestic welfare? We show that as compared to the case of no lobbying and the case of domestic lobbying, the domestic-foreign lobbying achieves the lowest tariff and may also realize the highest welfare for the domestic country. Our results suggest that the domestic-foreign lobbying may contribute to a freer trade in t...

This paper analyses optimal monetary policy in a small open economy allowing for financial dollarization (FD). More importantly, we endogenise FD, making it dependent on the expected monetary policy. Contrary to the standard small open economy model, where central banks should control domestic (producer) prices and adopt a pure floating exchange rate regime, we find that some exchange rate cont...

Understanding the determinants of the location of MNE affiliates has become increasingly important for policy makers at the local, regional, national, and supra-national level, as investment promotion schemes are increasingly seen as an important cornerstone of the industrial development of most countries and regions. We examine some of the factors that explain an MNE’s choice for a particular ...