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Innovation and Foreign Ownership
Guadalupe, Maria - 2010
technologies, leading to higher productivity. We propose a model of endogenous selection and innovation in heterogeneous firms that …
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Internationalized Production in World Output
Lipsey, Robert E. - 1995
,' which are about 60 percent of world output. Given all the attention that 'globalization' has received from scholars …
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Combinatorial Discrete Choice : A Quantitative Model of Multinational Location Decisions
Arkolakis, Costas; Eckert, Fabian; Shi, Rowan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We introduce a general quantifiable framework to study the location decisions of multinational firms. In the model, firms choose in which locations to pay the fixed costs of setting up production, taking into account potential complementarities among production locations. The firm's location...
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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 level. This relationship is similar to that found for...
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Swedish Firms Acquired by Foreigners : A Comparison of Before and After Takeover
Lipsey, Robert E. - 1982
Swedish firms acquired by foreigners were considerably larger than the average firms in their industries. They were relatively low in value added per employee at the time of takeover and before, a characteristic we take to indicate relatively low profitability, capital intensity, or...
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Foreign Takeovers of Swedish Firms
Lipsey, Robert E. - 1981
The examination of foreign takeovers is a way of distinguishing between the characteristics of f inns and industries that encourage takeovers and the effects of foreignness or of takeovers per se. Foreigners have tended to take over Swedish firms that are of above average size within each...
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Foreign Direct Investment and Employment : Home Country Experience in the United States and Sweden
Blomstrom, Magnus - 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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Home Country Effects of Foreign Direct Investment : Evidence from Sweden
Blomstrom, Magnus - 1994
This paper examines two broad issues related to foreign investment by Swedish multinationals: first the effects of outward foreign direct investment on domestic investment, exports, and employment, and second, the effects on the domestic economy from the increasing division of labor between the...
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Learning Versus Stealing : How Important are Market-Share Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth?
Harrison, Ann E. - 2011
productivity growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements ("learning"). We use comprehensive … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … productivity gains during the overall 20-year period from 1985 to 2004 were driven largely by improvements in average productivity …
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Does Inward Foreign Direct Investment Boost the Productivity of Domestic Firms?
Haskel, Jonathan E. - 2002
Are there productivity spillovers from FDI to domestic firms, and, if so, how much should host countries be willing to …
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