Browsing by Author "Yi, Kei-Mu"
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Item An analysis of the impact of foreign collaborations on production, exports and imports in India(1993) Kumar, Rahul; Yi, Kei-MuThis thesis examines at a micro-level the effect of foreign collaborations in India on trade and production. The data used is classified according to the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC). It is examined at both the one digit (sector) and the two digit (industry) levels. The results of the analysis are inconclusive. This is possibly due to the lack of availability of sufficient foreign collaborations data and the lack of sufficient disaggregation of data relating to domestic investment. With the availability of additional data on foreign collaborations and disaggregated data on domestic investment, it is hoped that this study would lead to stronger, more conclusive results under the adopted framework.Item Export price behavior of Taiwanese manufactured goods: Theory and evidence(1994) Wu, Hsiu-Ling; Yi, Kei-MuThe dissertation develops and solves one static and two dynamic pass-through models to investigate the relative importance of exchange rate appreciation and labor cost increases on export good prices. It is shown that the degree of the pass-through depends on market conditions as well as the strength of dynamic factors. Data from 1981 through 1988 on U.S. imports of eight Taiwanese commodities are used to estimate the implications of the models.Item The economic effects of the Maquiladoras-offshore assembly plants in Mexico(1992) Cloninger, Bret Branson; Yi, Kei-MuThis thesis examines the impacts of the Offshore Assembly Provision (OAP) on Mexico and the United States. The first portion of the thesis notes the importance of the maquiladora program (the OAP in Mexico) to the Mexican economy and, because of the relatively large size of the U.S. economy, the small impact on the U.S. Also, the maquiladora plants have very low linkages into the Mexican economy, i.e. few nonlabor inputs come from Mexico. The second portion of the thesis is a literature review which discloses the result that a hypothetical repeal of the OAP results in a small loss of welfare in the U.S., a small gain in U.S. employment, and a small loss in employment in Mexico. The third portion uses input-output analysis to discover that maquiladoras provide a very small portion of the expansion of Mexican exports since 1980.