International Economic Integration And Domestic Performance

by Mary E Lovely

Overview

International Economic Integration and Domestic Performance brings together the essays of Mary E Lovely focused on the relationship between international economic integration and domestic performance. It is a collection of sole-authored and co-authored papers that have been published in various scholarly journals over the last two decades. The first section considers the welfare effects and optimal design of retail sales taxes when consumers can avoid taxation by crossing jurisdictional boundaries. The second section highlights the role of scale economies in the design of industrial policies and as a determinant of firm location. The third section explores the influence of environmental policy on foreign investor's location decisions and the role of trade and technology on country's environmental regulation. The final section considers the determinants of wage differences, the attraction of low wages for foreign investors, and misallocations of labor in an emerging economy — China.The collection, taken as a whole, highlights the power of international factor mobility to determine domestic tax burdens, to influence welfare implications of domestic policy alternatives, and to influence the location of productive factors and their rewards.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789813141087
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	04/19/2017
Series:	World Scientific Studies In International Economics , #58
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

About the Author v

Preface and Acknowledgements vii

The Power of Mobility xiii

Part I Sales Taxation and Cross-border Evasion 1

1 Optimal Commodity Taxation with Costly Noncompliance, Public Finance Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 1 (January 1995), pp. 115-130. 3

2 Crossing the Bolder: Docs Commodity Tax Evasion Reduce Welfare and (Jan Enforcement Improve It? Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 27, No. 1 (February 1991), pp. 157 174. 19

Part II Scale Economies, Policy, Firm Location, and Trade Patterns 37

3 Playing by the New Subsidy Rules: Capital Subsidies as Substitutes for Sectoral Subsidies. Journal of International Economics, Vol. 43, No. 3 4 (November 1997), pp. 463-482. 39

4 Technological Linkages, Market. Structure, and Production Policies (with Douglas Holtz-Eakin), Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 61, No. 1 (July 1996), pp. 73-86. 59

5 Scale Economies, Returns to Variety, and the Productivity of Public Infrastructure (with Douglas Holtz-Eakin), Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 26, No. 2 (April 1996), pp. 105 123. 73

6 Information, Agglomeration, and the Headquarters of U.S. Exporters (with Stuart S. Rosenthal and Shalini Sharma), Regional Science and Urban Economic. Vol. 35, No. 2 (March 2005), pp. 167-191. 93

7 Decomposing China-Japan- U.S. Trade: Vertical 119 Specialization. Ownership, and Organizational Form (with Judith M. Dean and Jesse Mora), Journal of Asian Economics, Vol. 20, No. 6 (November 2009), pp. 596-610. 119

8 The Home-Market Effect and Bilateral Trade Patterns: A Reexamination of the Evidence (with Cong S. Pham and Devashish Mitra), International Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 30 (March 2014), pp. 120-137. 135

Part III Environmental Policy in the Open Economy 153

9 Are Foreign Investors Attracted to Weak Environmental Regulations? Evaluating the Evidence from China, (with Judith M. Dean and Hua Wang), Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 90, No. 1 (September 2009), pp. 1-13. 155

10 Trade, Technology, and the Environment: Does Access to Technology Promote Environmental Regulation? (with David Popp), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 61. No. 1 (January 2011), pp. 16-35. 169

Part IV International Economic Integration and Wages 189

11 The Location Decisions of Foreign Investors in China: Untangling the Effect of Wages Using a Control Function Approach (with Xuepeug Liu and Jan Ondrich), The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 92, No. 1 (February 2010), pp. 160-166. 191

12 Does Final Market Demand Elasticity Influence the Location of Export Processing? Evidence from Multinational Decisions in China (with Xuepeng Liu and Jan Ondrich), The World Economy, Vol. 36, No. 5 (May 2013), pp. 509 536. 199

13 Labor Allocation in China: Implicit Taxation of the Heterogeneous Non-State Sector (with Farilia Kamal), CESifo Economics Studies, Vol. 59, No. 4 (December 2013), pp. 731-758. 227

14 Docs Deeper Integration Enhance Spatial Advantages? Market Access and Wage Growth in China (with Fariha Kamal and Puman Ouyang), International Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 23, No. 1 (June 2012), pp. 59-74. 255