Tamasiga, Phemelo: Essays in International Trade, Multinational Firm Production and Economic Growth. 2018
Inhalt
- Declaration of Authorship
- Abstract
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Background Motivation
- 1.1.1 Quantifying Gains from Trade and Foreign Direct Investment with Heterogeneous Firms
- 1.1.2 Capital taxation, Heterogeneous Multinational and Trade Firms in a Model of productivity Growth
- 1.1.3 Impact of Exhaustible Resources on opening for International Trade: Hartwick's rule and taste for foreign goods (joint work with Anton Bondarev )
- 1.2 Contributions and Organisation
- 2 Quantifying Gains from Trade and Foreign Direct Investment with Heterogeneous Firms
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Model
- 2.2.1 Preferences and Demand
- 2.2.2 Technology and Cost Structure
- 2.2.3 Firms Decision Problem and Cut-off Costs and Productivities
- 2.3 Aggregation and Equilibrium
- 2.4 Welfare Analysis
- 2.5 Quantitative Relevance: Theory to Data
- 2.6 Conclusion
- 3 Capital Taxation, Heterogeneous Multinational and Trade Firms in a Model of Endogenous productivity Growth
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Theoretical model of trade and FDI with firms heterogeneity, innovation-led growth and corporate taxation
- 3.3 Solution of the model
- 3.3.1 Household optimization problem
- 3.3.2 Intermediate good sector Profit maximization
- 3.3.3 Final Good Profit Maximization
- 3.3.4 Entry and Exit Decisions
- 3.3.5 Steady State Equilibrium
- 3.3.6 Steady State Effects of Openness (Trade Liberalisation and FDI)
- 3.4 Conclusion
- 4 Impact of exhaustible resource on opening for international trade: Hartwick’s rule and taste for foreign goods
- 4.1 Model
- 4.2 Solution
- 4.2.1 Households
- 4.2.2 Final producers
- 4.2.3 Resource extraction
- 4.2.4 Intermediate goods producers
- 4.2.5 Equilibrium, market clearing
- 4.3 Results
- 4.4 Conclusion
- A Gains from Trade and FDI with Heterogenous Firms
- A.1 Aggregation Price Index
- A.1.1 Trade Only Price Index
- A.1.2 FDI only Price Index
- A.1.3 Aggregate price index of all foreign varieties
- A.2 Aggregation of Sales
- A.2.1 Export sales
- A.2.2 FDI or Multinational Sales
- A.2.3 Aggregate Sales(from all operations, i.e both exports and FDI)
- A.3 Expenditure shares
- B Capital Taxation, Heterogeneous Multinational and Trade Firms in a Dynamic Model of Endogenous productivity Growth
- C Impact of exhaustible resource on opening for international trade: Hartwick's rule and taste for foreign goods
- C.1 Derivation of the Euler Equation
- C.2 Derivations for final producers
- C.3 Resource price determination
- Bibliography