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We study how Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) measures gross fixed capital formation in foreign-owned companies. Our … data include firm-level information on FDI inflows and real investment (Gross Fixed Capital Formation) by foreign …-owned companies located in Finland. Our results suggest that the recorded annual inflows of FDI poorly measure annual real investments …
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In an integrated global economy, multinational enterprises (MNEs) have more opportunities than ever to reap the benefits of broader markets and more possibilities for an extensive division of labour between different locations. In spite of this, the evidence on the spread of the activities of...
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have investigated the factors af-fecting FDI in the Baltic Sea Region in three ways. First, we have studied the factors … affecting FDI on the basis of the existing theoretical and empirical literature. Secondly, we have studied the characteristics … of the existing FDI in the Baltic Sea Region. Thirdly, we have researched the investment motives through two firm …
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The phenomenon of physical R&D-manufacturing co-location is interesting, because researchers have made very different observations regarding its prevalence. In some populations co-location of the two functions seems to be the norm; in others, an exception. However, we still do not have an...
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(FDI). The main emphasis is on the structure and development of foreign trade. When measured by the Grubel-Lloyd index of … FDI, and ask which factors favour exports and which FDI. We also classify the investments of Finnish firms in Russia … according to these criteria in a very illustrative and preliminary way. Exports as well as FDI have profited from the high …
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, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, and Russia. We investigate foreign direct investment (FDI) flows from 1995 to 2010 … to these countries econometrically. We use two basic models: the first one treats aggregate FDI inflows by countries, and … the second focuses on bilateral FDI flows between country pairs. Because of limitations in data availability, the second …
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This study analyses how patent quality impacts the likelihood of acquisition. If a firm owns high quality or valuable patents, other firms may be interested in buying the firm to obtain the ownership of these patents. To proxy the quality of patents, we use both forward and backward citations....
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Much of the recent evidence on the internationalisation patterns of Finnish MNEs has come from analyses of the Top 30 firms. This paper uses newly available data from the Orbis database on the foreign affiliates of Finnish MNEs, and compares this to the existing sources of data from the Bank of...
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The widening range of countries acting as home and host to MNEs, and the continuing growth in all forms of cross-border economic activity, have prompted a large literature on the effects of outward MNE activity on the host countries. A smaller body of work has examined the effects on the home...
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