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Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution

Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Becker, Sascha O. - CESifo - 2006

Multinational labor demand responds to wage differentials at the extensive margin, when a multinational enterprise (MNE) expands into foreign locations, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE operates existing affiliates across locations. We derive conditions for parametric and nonparametric...

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Intellectual Property Rights, Product Complexity, and the Organization of Multinational Firms

Naghavi, Alireza; Spies, Julia; Toubal, Farid - CESifo - 2013

down outsourcing into two types by distinguishing whether or not they involve technology sharing between the two parties … technology-sharing-outsourcing IPRs promote outsourcing of more complex goods to a destination country by guaranteeing the … protection of their technology, (ii) for non-technology-related-outsourcing IPRs attract the outsourcing of less complex products …

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Growth, Foreign Direct Investment and Urban Concentrations: Unbundling Spatial Lags

Poelhekke, Steven; Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2008

Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear that primacy eventually hurts growth performance. Since it is tough to interpret cross-country growth regressions, we provide detailed evidence on the determinants of outward FDI...

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Universal Intellectual Property Rights: Too Much of a Good Thing?

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara; Paillacar, Rodrigo - CESifo - 2013

the one hand, free-riding on rich countries technology reduces their investment cost in R&D. On the other hand, firm that …

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Pricing the Transfer of Intellectual Property as a Problem of Second-Best Tax Policy

Richter, Wolfram F.; Breuer, Markus - CESifo - 2015

The adequate pricing of intellectual property (“IP”) for tax reporting is a largely unsettled issue. Transactional profit-based methods are on the rise although only rated as “methods of last resort” by the OECD. This paper focuses on regulated profit splitting and compares this transfer...

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International Trade, Risk and the Role of Banks

Niepmann, Friederike; Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim - CESifo - 2014

Banks play a critical role in international trade by providing trade finance products that reduce the risk of exporting. This paper employs two new data sets to shed light on the magnitude and structure of this business, which, as we show, is highly concentrated in a few large banks. The two...

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No Guarantees, No Trade: How Banks Affect Export Patterns

Niepmann, Friederike; Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim - CESifo - 2014

This study provides evidence that shocks to the supply of trade finance have a causal effect on U.S. exports. The identification strategy exploits variation in the importance of banks as providers of letters of credit across countries. The larger a U.S. bank’s share of the trade finance market...

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How Far Away is an Intangible? Services FDI and Distance

Davies, Ronald B.; Guillin, Amélie - CESifo - 2011

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in services has grown significantly in recent years. Evidence of spatial relationships in FDI decisions have been provided for goods manufacturing by utilizing physical distance-based measures of trade costs. This paper investigates spatial interactions for...

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U.S. Multinationals and Preferential Market Access

Blanchard, Emily; Matschke, Xenia - CESifo - 2012

This paper examines the relationship between offshoring activity by U.S. multinational firms and the structure of U.S trade preferences. We combine firm level panel data on U.S. foreign affiliate activity from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) with detailed measures of U.S. trade...

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Preference Bias and Outsourcing to Market: A Steady-State Analysis

Wang, Ping; Riezman, Raymond - CESifo - 2008

technology embodied in the local capital. The decision of whether to offer an outsourcing contract weighs these two effects …

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