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The EC and the Locational Choice of Swedish Multinational Companies

Swedenborg, Birgitta - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1990

In a world with multinational companies (MNC's) changes such as those implied by the realization of EC's internal market will affect the locational choice made by geographically mobile MNC's outside the EC. The reason is that any change which affects the competitive advantage of EC producers...

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Asymmetric Effects of Corruption on FDI: Evidence from Swedish Multinational Firms

Hakkala, Katariina; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Svaleryd, Helena - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005

We examine the effect of corruption on foreign direct investments. Our model shows that corruption may have different … market. Using Swedish firm-level data, we find that affiliate local sales decrease with corruption, while affiliate exports … increase. Finally, corruption has a negative effect on the probability that a foreign firm will invest in a country. These …

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Swedish Multinationals and Competition from High- and Low-Wage Locations.

Braconier, H.; Ekholm, K. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999

This study uses data on Swedish multinationals to estimate cross elasticities of labour demand in different locations. With a vertical decomposition of the firm's activities, whether there is substitution or complementarity between employment in different parts of the firm will depend on whether...

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Does FDI Work as a Channel for R&D Spillovers? Evidence Based on Swedish Data

Braconier, Henrik; Ekholm, Karolina; Knarvik, Midelfart; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are important in transmitting technology across national borders. Not only do they allow for transfer of technology within the firm, but it is also believed that they are important channels for international R&D spillovers as well. This paper analyzes empirically...

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The Effect of Tax Treaties on Multinational Firms: New Evidence from Microdata

Davies, Ronald B.; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Tekin-Koru, Ayça - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

This paper uses affiliate level data from Swedish multinationals to examine the impact of tax treaties on both overall affiliate sales and the composition of those sales. In line with previous results, we find little evidence for an effect of treaties on the level of total sales. We do, however,...

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Does Foreign Direct Investment Replace Home Country Investment? The Effect of European Integration on the Location of Swedish Investment

Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Oxelheim, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of European integration on the location of investments by Swedish multinational corporations (MNCs). Evidence is presented about the extent to which European integration has attracted investment by Swedish MNCs, and whether foreign direct...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Employment: Home Country Experience in the United States and Sweden

Blomström, Magnus; Fors, Gunnar; Lipsey, Robert E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

We compare the relation between foreign affiliate production and parent employment in U.S. manufacturing multinationals with that in Swedish firms. U.S. multinationals appear to have allocated some of their more labor intensive operations selling in world markets to affiliates in developing...

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The Foreign Operations of Swedish Manufacturing Firms: Evidence from a Survey of Swedish Multinationals 1998

Ekholm, Karolina; Hesselman, Marie - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

This paper presents the results of a survey of Swedish multinationals conducted in 1999. The survey was carried out in order to update an existing database on Swedish manufacturing firms with producing foreign affiliates collected by the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI). The...

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Domestic versus Cross-Border Acquisitions: Which Impact on the Target Frims' Performance?

Bertrand, Olivier; Zitouna, Habib - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005

This paper investigates the effects of horizontal acquisitions on the performance of target firms in the 1990's. Using French manufacturing firm-level data, we examine two main indicators of performance: the profit and the productive efficieny. We distinguish domestic from cross-in-difference...

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Foreign Operations of Swedish Manufacturing Firms - Evidence from the IUI Survey on Multinationals 2003

Hakkala, Katariina; Zimmermann, David - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005

The paper serves as a documentation of the survey IUI has conducted on Swedish multinational firms (MNEs) in 2004. It describes recent trends in the operations of Swedish multinational firms participating in the survey and foreign direct investment (FDI) of Swedish firms in general. The survey...

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