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Foreign Owners and Plant Survival
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2003
down production. This paper asks whether foreign owners are more likely to close plants than domestic owners. In Indonesia …
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Foreign Firms and Indonesian Manufacturing Wages : An Analysis With Panel Data
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2003
Wages in domestically- owned Indonesian manufacturing plants taken over by foreign firms increased sharply between the year before takeover and two years after takeover, relative to plants remaining in domestic ownership. Blue- collar wage levels in these plants had been less than 10 per cent...
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Foreign Direct Investment and Wages in Indonesian Manufacturing
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2001
This paper asks two types of questions. One is about the behavior of foreign-owned firms in Indonesian labor markets and the other is about the effect of the presence of foreign-owned firms on Indonesian wages. We ask first whether foreign-owned plants pay a higher price for labor, that is, more...
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Foreign direct investment
Froot, Kenneth (ed.) - 1993
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FDI in the Restructuring of the Japanese Economy
Blomstrom, Magnus - 2000
This paper examines how inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI) have influenced the restructuring of the Japanese economy and can be expected to continue to do so in the future. We find that outward investment has helped Japanese firms to sustain foreign market shares and contributed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471068
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Outward FDI and Parent Exports and Employment : Japan, the United States, and Sweden
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000
Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production … in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471148
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Potential for Inward Foreign Direct Investment in Japan
Hoshi, Takeo - 2019
Promotion of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) into Japan has been an important policy in the Abenomics growth … stock for Japan. Although the actual inward FDI stock has been growing and is likely to achieve the goal of 35 trillion yen … suggested by the estimated model. We also estimate the model without Japan as a destination country and use the estimated model …
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Cross-Border Acquisitions and Target Firms' Performance : Evidence From Japanese Firm-Level Data
Fukao, Kyoji - 2006
Moreover, we find that there is no positive impact on target firms' profitability in the case of both within-group in-in acquisitions and in-in acquisitions by domestic outsiders. In fact, in the manufacturing sector, the return on assets even deteriorated one year and two years after...
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Heterogeneity and the FDI versus Export Decision of Japanese Manufacturers
Head, Keith - 2003
We investigate whether productivity differences explain why some manufacturers sell only to the domestic market while others serve foreign markets through exports and/or FDI. When overseas production offers no cost advantages, our model predicts that investors should be more productive than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468642
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Industrial Groupings and Strategic FDI : Theory and Evidence
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2000
We show that industrial ownership structures, such as keiretsu groupings in Japan, may significantly impact firms …
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