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Intra-Firm Trade and Employment in US Manufacturing
Blanas, Sotiris - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
This paper studies the impact of trade within US-headquartered multinational companies (MNCs) on labour demand for all employees, as well as, for those of high and low skill in US manufacturing for the period 1995 – 2005. We find strong evidence on the positive and negative effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886831
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Multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa: Domestic Linkages and Institutional Distance
Pérez-Villar, Lucia; Seric, Adnan - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
This paper analyzes the role of institutional distance in the establishment of domestic linkages by multinational enterprises in a cross- section of 19 Sub- Saharan countries. Investors’ familiarity with formal and informal procedures in the host country lowers uncertainty and facilitates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886847
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Taxes and the Financial Structure of German Inward FDI
Ramb, Fred; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2005
The paper analyses the financial structure of German inward FDI. From a tax perspective, intra-company loans granted by the parent should be all the more strongly preferred over equity the lower the tax rate of the parent and the higher the tax rate of the German affiliate. From our study of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886849
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The Effects of Greenfield FDI and Cross-border M&As on Total Factor Productivity
Ashraf, Ayesha; Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
Based on original survey data, this paper analyses and compares the role of personal traits and social capital in determining entrepreneurial intentions of students in Hong Kong and in Guangzhou (mainland China). The two cities are culturally closely related but differ strongly with respect to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886865
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World Market Access of Emerging-Market Firms: the Role of Foreign Ownership and Access to External Finance
Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886876
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Emerging multinationals, international knowledge flows and economic geography: a research agenda
Dohse, Dirk Christian; Hassink, Robert; Klaerding, Claudia - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
motivated by the sourcing of natural resources and cheap labour, knowledge and technology-seeking is an increasingly important … multinationals as knowledge-transfer agents and pursues three aims: First, to unravel the distinguishing features of emerging … emerging multinationals, with a particular focus on the economic geography of international knowledge flows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886894
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Foreign Direct Investment, Spillovers and Absorptive Capacity: Evidence from Quantile Regressions
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2005
This paper focuses on the role of absorptive capacity in determining whether or not domestic firms benefit from productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments located at different quantiles of the productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886919
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With a little help from my friends: Supplying to multinationals, buying from multinationals, and domestic firm performance
Görg, Holger; Seric, Adnan - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
This paper uses firm level data for 19 African countries to look at the link between domestic firms’ business relationship with multinationals and their performance in terms of innovation and productivity. Quite uniquely, we also evaluate the importance of support received by the domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886928
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Do Multinational Enterprises Contribute to Convergence or Divergence? A Disaggregated Analysis of US FDI
Mayer-Foulkes, David; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2005
It is a widely held belief that foreign direct investment (FDI) has a positive effect on economic growth. We test this hypothesis by performing convergence regressions derived from a model of endogenous technological change. We estimate the rate of growth in per-capita income, relative to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886931
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Location Choice and Employment Decisions: A Comparison of German and Swedish Multinationals
Becker, Sascha O.; Ekholm, Karolina; Jäckle, Robert; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2005
Using data for German and Swedish multinational enterprises (MNEs), this paper assesses international employment patterns. It analyzes determinants of location choice and the degree of substitutability of labor across locations. Countries with highly skilled labor forces attract German MNEs, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886954