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Chapter 2. Multinational Firms and the Structure of International Trade
Antràs, Pol; Yeaple, Stephen R. - In: Handbook of international economics : Volume 4, (pp. 55-130). 2014
This chapter reviews the state of the international trade literature on multinational firms. This literature addresses three main questions. First, why do some firms operate in more than one country while others do not? Second, what determines in which countries production facilities are...
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Challenges to Globalization : Analyzing the Economics
Aizenman, Joshua (contributor);  … - 2004
People passionately disagree about the nature of the globalization process. The failure of both the 1999 and 2003 World … official, international organizations like the WTO, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, nongovernmental and …-globalists regarding issues such as globalization's relationship to democracy, its impact on the environment and on labor markets including …
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The golden hello and political transitions
Aidt, Toke; Albornoz, Facundo; Gassebner, Martin - 2012
transitions ; democracy ; autocracy ; IMF ; World Bank …We analyze the influence of IMF and World Bank programs on political regime transitions. We develop an extended version … have taken place. We test this unexplored implication of the theory empirically. We find in a world sample from 1970 to …
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Taxation, Business Environment and FDI Location in OECD Countries
Hajkova, Dana; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Vartia, Laura; Yoo, … - 2006
it focuses on a semi-parametric estimation methodology that accounts for a number of unobserved effects possibly … impinging on the choice of investment location by multinational enterprises. Consistent with previous findings, the estimation …
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Who revolts? : income, political freedom and the Egyptian revolution
Mansour, Fady; Leonce, Tesa; Mixon, Franklin G. - In: Empirical economics : a quarterly journal of the … 61 (2021) 3, pp. 1135-1150
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Markets, externalities, and the dynamic gains of openness
Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - 2016
Infl ows of foreign knowledge are the key for developing countries to catch up with the world technology frontier. In …
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Economic freedom and human rights : a survey
Bjørnskov, Christian - In: Handbook of research on economic freedom, (pp. 315-329). 2024
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When multinationals leave : a CGE analysis of the impact of divestments
Gómez-Plana, Antonio G.; Latorre Muñoz, María C. - 2014
Most studies on Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) focus on the impact of their expansion through inward or outward foreign direct investment (FDI) flows. However, divestments are quite common among the operations of MNEs. In order to derive their effects, we build a computable general equilibrium...
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Der gezähmte Diktator : die Wirkung von Menschenrechtsverfahren auf das Repressionslevel in Autokratien
Ostertag, Thomas - 2017
Variation bei den Entwicklungshilfeleistungen konnte in der Vergangenheit die angestrebte Verbesserung der Menschenrechte …
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Der gezähmte Diktator : die Wirkung von Menschenrechtsverfahren auf das Repressionslevel in Autokratien
Ostertag, Thomas - 2017
Variation bei den Entwicklungshilfeleistungen konnte in der Vergangenheit die angestrebte Verbesserung der Menschenrechte …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014482514