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Foreign Direct Investment, Source Country Heterogeneity and Management Practices
Heyman, Fredrik; Nor, Pehr-Johan; Hammarberg, Rickard - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
This paper examines whether and, if so, why source country heterogeneity exists in foreign direct investment (FDI). Using detailed data on all Swedish firms for the period from 1996 to 2009, we find statistical evidence that affiliate performance differs systematically across source countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944998
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Corporate Restructuring and Labor Productivity Growth
Hakkala, Katariina - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004
This paper analyzes corporate restructuring and its role in generating labor productivity growth in a sample of large … closures of plants, accounted for up to 47 percent of the productivity growth of the sample of corporations during the 1986 …-96 period. The results indicate that the productivity of large multi-plant corporations grew almost twice as fast as that of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645399
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Cross-Border Acquisitions, Multinationals and Wage Elasticities
Hakkala, Katariina; Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, Fredrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
The growing number of cross-border acquisitions has in many countries raised concerns about labor demand consequences. In this study, we use detailed firm level data to examine how increased internationalization and multinational activity affect the volatility of employment, or rather, the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207058
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South-South FDI and Development in East Asia
Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011
findings about their industrial composition, their effects on their host countries and their host-country firms’ productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321785
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What Can International Finance Add to International Strategy?
Oxelheim, Lars; Randoy, Trond; Stonehill, Arthur - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011
This chapter focuses on the role of corporate financial strategies to improve firms’ market valuations, and thus lower their cost of capital. The identification of successful strategies is accomplished within an overall strategic framework and related to how the firm perceives the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386418
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Evidence on Declining Exports Due to Overseas Production
Svensson, Roger - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1993
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611577
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Domestic and Foreign Investment by Swedish Multinationals
Svensson, Roger - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1993
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611578
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The Foreign Operations of Swedish Manufacturing Firms: Evidence from a Survey of Swedish Multinationals 1998.
Ekholm, K.; Hesselman, M. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005780385
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552180
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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 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486487