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Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution

Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2009

Employment at multinational enterprises (MNEs) responds to wages at the extensive margin, when an MNE enters a foreign location, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE operates existing affiliates. We present an MNE model and conditions for parametric and nonparametric identification. Prior...

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Internationalized Production in World Output

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1995

Internationalized production, that is, production by multinational firms outside their home countries has increased over the last two decades, but it was still, in 1990, only about 7 percent of world output. The share was higher, at 15 percent in 'industry,' including manufacturing, trade,...

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Global Production with Export Platforms

Tintelnot, Felix - 2016

market of the host country and to export to other markets outside the host country. In this paper, I examine the determinants … away export platforms - i.e. they do not allow foreign affiliates of multinationals to export - or by ignoring fixed costs … multinational firms that engage in export platform sales and that face fixed costs of foreign investment. I first estimate the model …

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The Use of Tax Havens in Exemption Regimes

Gumpert, Anna - 2011

This paper analyzes the tax haven investment behavior of multinational firms from a country that exempts foreign income from taxation. High foreign tax rates generally encourage firms to invest in tax havens, though significant costs of reallocating taxable income dampen these incentives. The...

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Catching-Up to Foreign Technology? Evidence on the "Veblen-Gerschenkron" Effect of Foreign Investments

Peri, Giovanni - 2004

The presence of foreign multinational enterprises may benefit local economies. In particular, highly productive foreign-owned firms may promote technological catch-up of local firms. Such channel of spillovers is defined as "Veblen-Geschenkron" effect of Foreign Direct Investments and is...

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The Contribution of Trade to Wage Inequality : The Role of Skill, Gender, and Nationality

Klein, Michael W. - 2010

claim, we find a significant export wage premium for high-skilled workers in German manufacturing and an export wage … discount for lower skilled workers, using matched employer-employee data. Estimates suggest that the export wage premium to …

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Export Entry and Exit by German Firms

Bernard, Andrew B. - 1998

This paper examines the decision to enter the export market by German firms. While exports have played an important … role in recent German business cycle movements, little is known about the export supply response of German firms. This … paper presents a dynamic model of the export decision by a profit-maximizing firm. Using a panel of German manufacturing …

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Learning Capitalism the Hard Way--Evidence from German Reunification

Triebs, Thomas P. - 2013

We develop a model of firm learning in volatile markets with noisy signals and test its predictions using historical data from the Ifo Institute's Business Climate Survey. We find that firms' forecasts improve as they age. We also exploit German Reunification as a natural experiment where firms...

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Corporate Taxes and Internal Borrowing within Multinational Firms

Egger, Peter - 2012

This paper develops a theoretical model of multinational firms with an internal capital market. Main reasons for the emergence of such a market are tax avoidance through debt shifting and the existence of institutional weaknesses and financial frictions across host countries. The model serves to...

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International Business Travel : An Engine of Innovation?

Hovhannisyan, Nune - 2011

While it is well known that managers prefer in-person meetings for negotiating deals and selling their products, face-to-face communication may be particularly important for the transfer of technology because technology is best explained and demonstrated in person. This paper studies the role of...

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