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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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Public Sector Size and Corruption: Evidence from 290 Swedish Municipalities

Bergh, Andreas; Fink, Günther; Öhrvall, Richard - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

In this paper, we use data from a corruption survey conducted among top politicians and high level civil servants in … 290 Swedish municipalities in 2007 to investigate the effects of government size on corruption. We construct several … measures of corruption based on the survey, and combine these corruption measures with detailed administrative municipality …

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Trade Facilitation and the Extensive Margin

Persson, Maria - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

The literature on trade facilitation has mostly focused on implications for trade volumes. However, recent theoretical contributions have emphasized that trade costs – such as transaction costs related to cross-border trade procedures – affect both the traded volumes of “old” goods (the...

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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Entrepreneurship Policy and Globalization

Douhan, Robin; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

What explains the world-wide trend of pro-entrepreneurial policies in the last few decades? We study entrepreneurial policy in a lobbying model taking into account the con.ict of interest between entrepreneurs and incumbents. It is shown that international market integration leads to more...

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The EC and the Locational Choice of Swedish Multinational Companies

Swedenborg, Birgitta - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1988

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. The reason is that the reduction of trade barriers within the EC puts non-EC members at a competitive...

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Vertical FDI Revisited

Braconier, Henrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Urban, Dieter - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2002

This study explores how relative skilled-wage premia affect FDI. Contrary to previous studies based on factor endowment differences, we find strong support for vertical FDI, in the sense that more FDI is conducted in countries where unskilled labor is relatively cheap. In addition, we find t hat...

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The WTO Dispute Settlement System 1995-2010: Some Descriptive Statistics

Horn, Henrik; Johannesson, Louise; Mavroidis, Petros C. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

The Dispute Settlement (DS) system is a central feature of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement. This compulsory and binding two-level mechanism for the adjudication of disputes between WTO Members is the most active among international courts. The functioning of the DS system has...

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Developing and Distributing Essential Medicine to Poor Countries: The DEFEND Proposal.

Ganslandt, M.; Maskus, K.E.; Wong, E.V. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

The poorest nations of the world suffer from extreme disease burdens, which go largely untreated because weak incomes and the prevailing system of intellectual property rights fail to provide sufficient incentives to develop new treatments and distribute them at low cost. Recent price reductions...

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Trade Agreements as Endogenously Incomplete Contracts

Horn, Henrik; Maggi, Giovanni; Staiger, Rikard W. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

We propose a model of trade agreements in which contracting is costly, and as a consequence the optimal agreement may be incomplete. Inspite of its simplicity, the model yields rich predictions on the structure of the optimal trade agreement and how this depends on the fundamentals of the...

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The WTO Dispute Settlement System 1995–2006: Some Descriptive Statistics

Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

The purpose of this paper is to report some initial findings based on the WTO Dispute Settlement Data Set (Ver. 2.0) that the authors have compiled for the World Bank. The data set contains approximately 28 000 observations on the workings of the Dispute Settlement (DS) system. It covers all 351...

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