Recent Evidence on Private Sector Capabilities, Trade Liberalization, Foreign Direct Investment, and Deregulation Are Not Enough

This paper summarizes new empirical findings concerning the magnitude of market failures affecting industrial performance and innovation, firm dynamics after economic policy reforms, and the effectiveness of popular government interventions designed to promote exports and foreign direct investment (...

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Main Authors:	Lederman, Daniel, Olarreaga, Marcelo
Format:	Foreign Trade, FDI, and Capital Flows Study
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	AGRICULTURE APPAREL APPAREL EXPORTS APPAREL INDUSTRIES APPAREL INDUSTRY APPAREL PREFERENCES APPAREL SECTOR ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION BARGAINING BARGAINING POWER BARRIERS TO ENTRY BENEFICIARIES BENEFICIARY BORDER TRADE BRANDS COMMERCIAL POLICY COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE COMPETITIVENESS CONSUMER GOODS COORDINATION FAILURE COORDINATION FAILURES DATA QUALITY DEREGULATION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DIMINISHING RETURNS ECONOMETRIC ESTIMATES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC POLICY ECONOMIC STRUCTURE ECONOMIC VOLATILITY EXCHANGE RATES EXPENDITURE EXPENDITURES EXPORT GROWTH EXPORT MARKETS EXPORT PRICES EXPORTER EXPORTERS EXPORTS EXTERNALITIES FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FOREIGN INVESTMENT FREE MARKET FREE MARKETS FREE TRADE FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS FUTURE MARKETS GEOGRAPHIC PROXIMITY GLOBAL MARKETS GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS GOVERNMENT SUPPORT HIGH TRADE BARRIERS HUMAN RESOURCES IMPACT OF TRADE INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING INNOVATION INNOVATIONS INSURANCE INTERMEDIATE GOODS INTERMEDIATE INPUTS INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS INTERNATIONAL TRADE INVESTMENT LIBERALIZATION INVESTMENT REGIME INVISIBLE HAND KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS LABOR FORCE LAISSEZ FAIRE LOCAL MARKET MACROECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT MARKET ACCESS MARKET FAILURES MARKET REFORMS MARKET RESEARCH MARKET SHARE MARKETING MISSING MARKETS OPEN ECONOMIES PREFERENTIAL ACCESS PREFERENTIAL MARKET ACCESS PRICE ADVANTAGE PRICE ADVANTAGES PRICE INCREASES PRIVATE INVESTMENT PROCESS OF ADJUSTMENT PRODUCT QUALITY PRODUCTION COSTS PRODUCTIVITY PROFIT MARGINS REAL WAGES RENTS RETAIL RETURN RULES OF ORIGIN SAFETY SAFETY STANDARDS SPREAD SUBSTITUTES SUPPLIERS TAXATION TELEPHONE PENETRATION TRADE AGREEMENT TRADE BARRIERS TRADE DATA TRADE FLOWS TRADE LIBERALIZATION TRADE POLICY TRADE REFORMS TRADEMARK TRADING TRADING SYSTEM TRANSACTIONS COSTS VALUE OF EXPORTS VOLATILITY WAGES WORLD MARKET WORLD TRADING SYSTEM
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/06/16326917/recent-evidence-private-sector-capabilities-trade-liberalization-foreign-direct-investment-deregulation-not-enough-latin-america-caribbean-recent-evidence-private-sector-capabilities-trade-liberalization-foreign-direct-investment-deregulation-not-enough http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8204