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International Competition for Multinational Investment

Haaland, Jan I.; Wooton, Ian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

We examine the economic justification for providing investment subsidies to foreign-owned multinationals. These provide … returns to scale. Offering subsidies to multinationals may be in the national interest if the investment raises the net value …, countries may compete to attract investment. This subsidy competition transfers much of the rents to the multinationals. …

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Foreign Direct Investment and Efficiency Benefits: A Conditional Quantile Analysis

Dimelis, Sophia; Louri-Dendrinou, Eleni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

exercising a stronger effect in most quantiles. Such distinct FDI effects stress the importance of policy modifications according …

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Quantifying Productivity Gains from Foreign Investment

Fons-Rosen, Christian; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We quantify the causal effect of foreign investment on total factor productivity (tfp) using a new global firm-level database. Our identification strategy relies on exploiting the difference in the amount of foreign investment by financial and industrial investors and simultaneously controlling...

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Inequality, Integration, and Policy: Issues and evidence from EMU

Bertola, Giuseppe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

governments to conduct independent fiscal policies and to enforce income redistribution schemes. Controlling for country …

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Labor policies and capital mobility in theory and in EMU

Bertola, Giuseppe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

"Race-to-the-bottom" deregulation is to be expected when markets operate across the borders of countries that independently choose and enforce labor policies. Less obviously, in pre-crisis EMU reforms of labor market policies were uneven and related to international imbalances. That pattern is...

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Does Where You Go Matter? The Impact of Outward Foreign Direct Investment on Multinationals' Employment at Home

Debaere, Peter; Lee, Hongshik; Lee, Joonhyung - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

How does outward foreign direct investment (FDI) affect employment growth of the multinationals (MNCs) in the home … country? Does the impact of outward investment differ by the level of development of the destination country of the FDI? Using …

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Trade and Multinationals: The Effect of Economic Integration on Taxation and Tax Revenue

Kind, Hans Jarle; Schjelderup, Guttorm; Ulltveit-Moe, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

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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A Multi-Country Approach to Factor-Proportions Trade and Trade Costs

Markusen, James R.; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Classic trade questions are reconsidered by generalizing a factor-proportions model to multiple countries, multi-stage production, and country-specific trade costs. We derive patterns of production specialization and trade for a matrix of countries that differ in relative endowments (columns)...

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Evaluating the Foreign Ownership Wage Premium Using a Difference-in-Differences Matching Approach

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

impacts result from acquisitions by EU multinationals. Also we discern some positive wage effects for unskilled workers … resulting from acquisitions by multinationals from the rest of the world. …

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Foreign Firms, Domestic Wages

Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Markusen, James R.; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Foreign-owned firms are often hypothesized to generate productivity “spillovers” to the host country, but both theoretical micro-foundations and empirical evidence for this are limited. We develop a heterogeneous-firm model in which ex-ante identical workers learn from their employers in...

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