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Using Japanese firm-level data, I examine whether more productive multinational enterprises (MNEs) invest in a larger number of foreign regions in the manufacturing sector. I employ the Kolmogorov–Smirnov (KS) test to compare the overall distribution of productivity by multinational status. I...
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multinationals, in particular, provide significant foreign exposure. We also find that, although the average US investor is less … tilted toward domestic multinationals, institutional investors do overweight domestic firms that are more internationally … oriented. ‘Indirect’ foreign holdings through domestic multinationals are shown to be substantial; combining them with reported …
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This paper applies a novel empirical approach to characterising the horizontal-ness and vertical-ness of affiliates based on Yeaple’s complex FDI concept. In its simplest form, horizontal-ness is measured as affiliates’ local sales share while their vertical-ness is measures as their share...
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The rising importance of multinationals in the world economy has been accompanied by a rise in trade between affiliates … of multinationals located in different countries, and by profits being shifted to low tax countries. The effect of trade …
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In this paper we investigate the impact of institutional differences as a determinant of Turkish FDI inflows from OECD economies. We focus on the corruption distance between the home and host countries as a crucial part of institutional quality. Our results confirm that FDI flows are higher when...
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As more and more countries seek to liberalise their foreign investment regimes to attract global flows of foreign direct investment (FDI), an essential question for policy-makers is no longer just what to reform but also how to reform. How is a reformist government to sell the idea of reform to...
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This paper estimates a dynamic foreign direct investment (FDI) gravity model to explore the impact of corruption in general and the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention in particular. The evidence from previous studies in both domains is mixed, probably due to econometric inconsistencies and misuse of...
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Despite the fact that many modern preferential trade agreements include commitments to foreign investors in imperfectly competitive services sectors, the literature has not established conditions under which these agreements are beneficial or harmful. The authors fill that void by developing a...
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While general equilibrium theories of trade stress the role of third-country effects, little work has been done in the empirical foreign direct investment (FDI) literature to test such spatial linkages. This paper aims to provide further insights into long-run determinants of Spanish FDI by...
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The determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) are explored with gravity models, using a Poisson estimator and a linear estimator, both with fixed effects. The heterogeneity of product market regulations has a large and robust impact on cross-border investment: a reduction of regulatory...
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