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Investment Liberalization - Who Benefits from Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions?

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

Investment liberalizing countries are often concerned that cross-border mergers & acquisitions might have an adverse effect on domestic firms and benefit multinational enterprises (MNEs). However, given that domestic assets are sufficiently scarce, we identify a preemption effect and an asset...

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Routes to Equity Market Integration - the Interplay Between Politicians, Investors and Managers.

Oxelheim, L. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

Most econometric studies of equity market integration suggest that national markets are increasingly becoming part of a global equity market. As regards the extent of this integration, however, the results are often inconclusive. Further analysis calls for a closer scrutiny of the basic...

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Globalization and Absolute Poverty – A Panel Data Study

Bergh, Andreas; Nilsson, Therese - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

relationship between economic and social globalization and absolute income poverty ex post. We use the globalization index … developed by Dreher (2006) and the World Bank poverty estimates. Using a fixed-effect panel based on five-year averages and … using a “long run” first difference regression, we find a robust negative correlation between globalization and poverty. We …

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Foreign Direct Investment and Employment in Sweden

Andersson, Thomas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1994

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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 …

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Full Employment and the Welfare State.

Lindbeck, A. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996

What were the asserted complementarities between the welfare state and full-employment policies, and why do these …

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Electronics, Economic Growth and Employment – Revolution or Evolution

Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1982

The "new electronics technology" in its various manifestations has been very much in the limelight during recent years. It has been associated with future mass unemployment or scary visions of a Brave New World, a grand discontinuity in economic and cultural development. Governments are worried...

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