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The Taxation of Income from Capital in Sweden 1980-91

Södersten, Jan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1987

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Strategic Investments in the Pulp and Paper Industry: A Count Data Regression Analysis

Bergman, Mats A.; Johansson, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

This paper analyses the effects of price and market size variables on the investment propensities in the pulp and paper …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207063

Foreign Direct Investment and Employment: Home Country Experience in the United States and Sweden

Blomstrom, M.; Fors, G.; Lipsey, R.E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

We compare the relation between foreign affiliate production and parent employment in U.S. manufacturing multinationals with that in Swedish firms. U.S. multinationals appear to have allocated some of their more labor intensive operations selling in world markets to affiliates in developing...

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Finance-specific Factors as Drivers of Cross-border Investment – An OLI Perspective

Forssbaeck, Jens; Oxelheim, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

investment and production. We hypothesize that financial strength generates advantages that can be exploited through cross …-border investment activity. The hypothesis is tested in a series of binary-response models, using a sample of 1379 European non …-border investment. We conclude that without explicit consideration of the financial dimension, firms’ FDI decisions cannot be properly …

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Globalization, Transparency and Economic Growth: The Vulnerability of Chinese Firms to Macroeconomic Shocks

Oxelheim, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

The process of globalization encompasses economic and financial integration. Abolition of capital controls and dismantling of barriers of different kinds are important ingredients of the process that will entirely change the exposure of previously sheltered companies to shocks on the global...

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Financial Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment

Forssbæck, Jens; Oxelheim, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

We argue that mainstream FDI theory underplays financial motivations for interna-tional investment, and suggest several …

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Strategic Investments in the Pulp and Paper Industry: A Count Data Regression Analysis.

Bergman, M.A.; Johansson, P. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

This paper analyses the effects of price and market size variables on the investment propensities in the pulp and paper …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670109

Firm Productivity and Carbon Leakage: A Study of Swedish Manufacturing Firms

Ferguson, Shon; Sanctuary, Mark - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

This paper examines the intensive and extensive margins of carbon leakage. The analysis uses an increase in the Swedish electricity price to identify the impact on imports at the firm and product level. Our model of heterogenous firms predicts that higher domestic electricity prices lead firms...

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Sizing Up the Impact of Embassies on Exports

Ferguson, Shon; Forslid, Rikard - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

The purpose of this study is to test for the effects of trade promotion via the foreign service. We develop a Melitz-based model where firms are heterogeneous with respect to productivity and must pay a beachhead cost to enter a foreign market, which can be reduced by government spending on...

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Firm Growth, Institutions and Structural Transformation

Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

This essay argues that the economic contribution of certain firms – be they small, young or rapidly growing – has to be understood in a broader context of creative destruction. Growth of some firms requires contraction and exit of some other firms to free up resources that can be reallocated...

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