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Optimal ownership and firm performance : an analysis of China's FDI liberalization
Eppinger, Peter S.; Ma, Hong - 2023
quantification of the gains from optimal ownership within multinational firms, by exploiting a major liberalization of China's policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014312548
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Expatriate managers : effects on firm performance
Koren, Miklós; Telegdy, Álmos - 2024
Using a novel Hungarian dataset on firms and their Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), we estimate the impact of hiring expatriate CEOs. By examining foreign acquisitions where the new owner replaces the incumbent CEO with an expatriate or a local CEO, we address the selection into both acquisition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014556622
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Can investments in emerging markets help to solve the aging problem?
Holzmann, Robert - 2000
Prefunding of pension commitments in OECD economies is increasingly seen as a central strategy to cope with the aging of their populations. This paper argues that investments in emerging markets can help at the margin but are unable to solve the demographic problem. While these investments bring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781581
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The effect of tax havens on host country welfare
Gresik, Thomas A.; Schindler, Dirk; Schjelderup, Guttorm - 2015
Multinational corporations can shift income into low-tax countries through transfer pricing and debt financing. While most developed countries use thin capitalization rules to limit the extent to which a subsidiary can be financed with internal debt, a number of developing countries do not. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509595
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The economics of a multilateral investment agreement
Che, Jiahua; Willmann, Gerald - 2009
This paper models a multilateral agreement on investment (MAI) as a coordination device. Multinational enterprises can invest in any number of countries. Without a multilateral investment agreement, expropriation triggers an investment stop by the single MNE. Under a multilateral agreement,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808670
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World market access of emerging-market firms : the role of foreign ownership and access to external finance
Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2013
This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009772816
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Former foreign affiliates : cast out and outperformed?
Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska; Poelhekke, Steven - 2014
The literature has documented a positive effect of foreign ownership on firm performance. But is this effect due to a one-time knowledge transfer or does it rely on continuous injections of knowledge? To shed light on this question we focus on divestments, that is, foreign affiliates that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010461272
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Uncertain productivity growth and the choice between FDI and export
Yalcin, Erdal - 2009
The underlying model analyzes the first time foreign market entry decision of a representative investor who can choose between export and FDI. The model combines the proximity-concentration trade-off framework with the real option methodology and sheds light on the effects of productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883086
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Did Chinese outward activity attenuate or aggravate the Great Recession in developing countries?
Gawellek, Bastian; Lyu, Jingjing; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2016
Using data on Chinese large-scale overseas investment and project contracts by sector, we analyze whether Chinese outward activity (COA) before the crisis worsened or alleviated the contractionary phases in developing countries. We find that, on average, COA did not increase vulnerability to the...
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Why is China investing in Africa? : evidence from the firm level
Chen, Wenjie; Dollar, David; Tang, Heiwai - 2016
China's increased trade with and investment in Africa have boosted the continent's economic growth but have also … generated considerable controversy. In this paper we investigate China's outward direct investment ODI in Africa using macro and … micro data. The aggregate data on China's ODI in African countries reveal that China's share of the stock of foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485198