Despite competition concerns over the increasing dominance of global corporations, many argue that productivity …

Models dealing with cross-border acquisitions versus greenfield investment usually assume that the entry of a foreign …

Capital income tax policy affects investment by the parent and affiliates of multinational corporations (MNCs). In a … model in which technical advances are embodied in new capital, investment will translate directly into productivity gains … 1992, due to productivity growth in MNCs with Canadian affiliates; (3) the investment elasticity of productivity growth is …

We examine the neoclassical investment model using a panel of U.S. manufacturing firms. The standard model with no … for firms with low (pre-sample) payouts (firms we expect to face financing constraints). Hem, investment is sensitive to … both firm cash flow and macroeconomic credit conditions, holding constant investment opportunities. Sample splits based on …

We evaluate the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Combining reduced-form estimates from tax data with a global investment … model, we estimate responses, identify parameters, and conduct counterfactuals. Domestic investment of firms with the mean ….S. multinationals rises substantially. These incentives also boost domestic investment, indicating complementarity between domestic and …

foreign direct investment (FDI) dynamics at different levels of aggregation as well as at firm level. We propose a theoretical … countries are smaller for industries with higher emission productivity. Our theory and empirical results point to the importance …

This paper analyzes the impact on firm behavior of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax …. Repatriations did not lead to an increase in domestic investment, employment or R&D -- even for the firms that lobbied for the tax …

This paper extends previous research on the effect of investment on labor productivity at the country level by … accounting for investment in R&D, as well as for investment in fixed and human capital. Privately-funded R&D investment is found … social (national) rate of return to private R&D investment is about seven times as large as the return to investment in …