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Foreign Direct Investment, Labour Market Regulation and Self-Interested Governments

Palokangas, Tapio - 2021

This document examines foreign direct investment (FDI) when multinationals and labour unions bargain over labour contracts and lobby the self-interested government for taxation and labour market regulation. We demonstrate that right-to-manage bargaining predicts higher returns for FDI than does...

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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms

Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2009

In oligopolistic industries that are unionised and may be affected by offshoring, falling offshoring costs have a moderating effect on trade unions. They will accept lower sector wages in order to discourage mobile forms from leaving the country. Since such wages are independent of the workers'...

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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms

Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2010

In oligopolistic industries, increased cost saving opportunities via offshoring have a moderating effect on trade unions. In order to discourage mobile firms from leaving the country, unions accept lower sector wages. In effect, the negotiated wage becomes independent of workers' bargaining...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966443

Lobbying and the power of multinational firms : conference paper

Polk, Andreas; Schmutzler, Armin; Müller, Adrian - 2013

Can multinational firms exert more power than national firms by influencing politics through lobbying? To answer this … question, we analyze the extent of national environmental regulation when policy is determined in a lobbying game between a … multinational; this changes for high transportation costs and intermediate damage parameters. When there is no lobbying, welfare …

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Tax attractiveness and the allocation of risk within multinationals

Dinkelbach, Andreas - 2015

This paper analyzes the impact of countries' tax attractiveness on the allocation of risk within multinational groups. Our dataset contains subsidiaries located in 32 European countries and owned by parents from 90 different countries globally. We show that tax symmetry positively influences the...

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Location choices of multinational firms : the case of mergers and acquisitions

Bertrand, Olivier (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Deutsche Direktinvestitionen in Australien : eine Evaluation der theoretischen Erklärungsansätze und der Standortattraktivität des Produktions- und Investitionsstandortes Australie...

Dawar, Tamim Achim - 1999

Die gestiegene internationale Mobilität der Produktivkräfte hat wesentlich zur Dynamisierung des weltwirtschaftlichen Strukturwandels beigetragen. In einer zunehmend offenen und durch Wettbewerb gekennzeichneten Weltwirtschaft sind internationale Direktinvestitionen zum wichtigsten Motor der...

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FDI, international trade and union collusion

Buccella, Domenico - 2010

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Mergers and capital flight in unionised oligopolies : is there scope for 'national chanpion' policy?

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - 2008

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FDI, international trade and union collusion

Buccella, Domenico - 2010

This paper deals with firms' decision related to international activities in a twocountry oligopoly model with a homogeneous product and unionized labor markets. Using a three-stage non-cooperative game with firms being first movers, it is found that firms' strategies are affected by the scale...

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