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Financial Constraints, Institutions, and Foreign Ownership
Alquist, Ron - 2018
This paper examines how external finance dependence, financial development, and institutions influence brownfield foreign direct investment (FDI). We develop a model of cross-border acquisitions in which the foreign acquirer's choice of ownership structure reflects a trade-off between easing...
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Volatility, Employment and the Patterns of FDI in Emerging Markets
Aizenman, Joshua - 2021
The purpose of this paper is to explore the implications of the deepening presence of multinationals in emerging markets on the cost of macroeconomic volatility there. We find that macroeconomic volatility has a potentially large impact on employment and investment decisions of multinationals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243418
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Learning Versus Stealing : How Important are Market-Share Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth?
Harrison, Ann E. - 2011
The new trade theory emphasizes the role of market-share reallocations across firms ("stealing") in driving productivity growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements ("learning"). We use comprehensive, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector...
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A Graph Theoretic Approach to Markets for Indivisible Goods
Caplin, Andrew - 2010
Many important markets, such as the housing market, involve goods that are both indivisible and of budgetary significance. We introduce new graph theoretic techniques ideally suited to analyzing such markets. In this paper and its companion (Caplin and Leahy [2010]), we use these techniques to...
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Tax Neutrality and Intangible Capital
Fullerton, Don - 2010
Many studies measure capital stocks and effective tax rates for different industries, but they consider only tangible assets such as equipment, structures, inventories, and land. Some of these studies also have estimated that the welfare cost of tax differences among these assets under prior law...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760243
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Measuring Intangible Capital with Market Prices
Ewens, Michael - 2019
Existing standards prohibit disclosures of internally created intangible capital to firm balance sheets, resulting in a downward bias of reported assets. To characterize off-balance sheet intangible assets, we use transaction prices to estimate this missing intangible capital. On average, our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868198
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Is the Stock Market Just a Side Show? Evidence from a Structural Reform
Campello, Murillo - 2014
The 2005 split-share reform in China mandated the conversion of nontradable stocks into tradable status. This paper …
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Growing Like China : Firm Performance and Global Production Line Position
Chor, Davin; Manova, Kalina; Yu, Zhihong - 2022
matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese … production stages conducted in China over the 1992-2014 period, both in the aggregate and within firms over time. Firms span more …
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International Joint Ventures and Internal vs. External Technology Transfer : Evidence from China
Jiang, Kun - 2018
We study the economics of international joint ventures with administrative data for China exploiting the change in … foreign direct investment policy as China entered the WTO in the year 2002. Accounting for a quarter of all international …). As China has dropped joint venture requirements and shifted towards wholly foreign-owned FDI as part of becoming a member …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922982
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Is China'S FDI Coming at the Expense of Other Countries?
Eichengreen, Barry; Tong, Hui - 2021
We analyze how China's emergence as a destination for foreign direct investment is affecting the ability of other … countries to attract FDI. We do so using an approach that accounts for the endogeneity of China's FDI. The impact turns out to … vary by region. China's rapid growth and attractions as a destination for FDI also encourages FDI flows to other Asian …
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