Trade, foreign firms and economic policy in Indonesian and Thai manufacturing

James, William E.; Ramstetter, Eric D.

doi:10.1016/j.asieco.2008.09.007

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“…Kennedy (2005) documents the significant influence of foreign businesses on national economic policy in China and outlines how foreign firms are often assisted by their own governments when lobbying Chinese policy makers. Similarly, James and Ramstetter (2005) report that foreign owned firms in Indonesia and Thailand successfully lobbied the Indonesian and Thai governments for favorable economic policies. Finally, Gawande et al (2004) provide evidence of lobbying by foreign firms in the US that resulted in reductions in US trade barriers.…”

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Institutionalized pollution havens

Cole¹,

Fredriksson²

2009

Ecological Economics

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This paper provides a lobby group theory based on Prat and Rustichini (Econometrica 2003) which suggests that the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on environmental policies is conditional on the structure of host countries' political institutions. In particular, FDI raises environmental policy stringency where the number of legislative units (such as the chambers of parliament or congress, government parties, the president, or the prime minister) are many, but reduces it where the legislative units are few. Our panel data evidence is fully consistent with this prediction. Pollution havens are thus more likely to occur in countries with institutional structures involving few legislative units. Finally, we show the empirical importance of endogenizing environmental policy in pollution haven hypothesis studies. Only when environmental policy is treated as endogenous does environmental policy stringency have a significant negative effect on FDI. This sheds new light on the existing literature on the pollution haven hypothesis.

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Institutionalized pollution havens

Cole¹,

Fredriksson²

2009

Ecological Economics

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“…The growing number of mining operations in Indonesia and the positive growth forecasts for these investments show the increasing importance of Indonesia in relation to the natural resources it possesses (Ministry of Finance, 2009). In addition, inexpensive labor and development of the manufacturing sector, and subsequent manufacturing trade, has shown strong growth in the past few years (James & Ramstetter, 2008). Economic analysts are forecasting positive growth for Indonesia in 2009 of between 3-4% GDP (Ministry of Finance, 2009), which makes it one of only a few countries worldwide predicting positive economic growth.…”

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Bahasa, Batik, and Bargaining: An Exploratory Study of the Negotiation Styles and Behaviors of Indonesian Managers

Gray

2010

Journal of Transnational Management

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“…The results confirm the evidence that TFP as an important driver of economic growth are not influenced by export channel. James et al (2008) carried out extensive analysis in estimating Indonesian and Thai manufactured exports. Experimenting with different measures, especially the important contributions of MNCs to export growth in the machinery industries in electric, office, and computing machinery were documented.…”

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Fdi Inflow Spillover Effect Implications on the Asia Pacific Productivity Growth Through the Export Channel

Lashaki

Ahmed

2017

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This paper inspects the influence of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows onthe catching up process developed by labour, physical capital, human capital, absorptivecapacity, telecommunications investment, and export channel on Asia Pacific's sustainableproductivity growth. A panel data from the period of 1970 to 2012 was used. The modifiedextensive growth theory model that is based on output approach was applied. Bothgrowth accounting and econometric approaches were considered to estimating theparameters of variables in first step and in the second step productivity indicators werecalculated. The results show that the FDI inflows and inputs used are input driven thatwas generally more predominant than total factor productivity (TFP) growth. Meanwhile,The GDP grew significantly during the periods of the study by development of humancapital, export, and telecommunications investment (input driven) variables, whichsupported by FDI inflows. Accordingly, the impact of export channel on the TFP growthfound to be positive with insignificant contribution in most the group selected countries.

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Trade, foreign firms and economic policy in Indonesian and Thai manufacturing

Cited by 9 publications

References 10 publications

Institutionalized pollution havens

Institutionalized pollution havens

Bahasa, Batik, and Bargaining: An Exploratory Study of the Negotiation Styles and Behaviors of Indonesian Managers

Fdi Inflow Spillover Effect Implications on the Asia Pacific Productivity Growth Through the Export Channel

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