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Offshore jurisdictions (including Cyprus), corruption money laundering and Russian round-trip investment
Whalley, John; Ledyaeva, Svetlana; Karhunen, Päivi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
In this paper we analyze the link between corruption money laundering and round-trip investment via offshore … investors in Russia. We further study the determinants of the fraction of round-trip investment in total foreign investment in … counterparts and the fraction of round-trip investment is also significantly higher in corrupt regions. Taking into account that a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969415
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Political Risk Spreads
Bekaert, Geert; Harvey, Campbell; Lundblad, Christian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
sovereign bond data. Finally, we link our political risk spreads to foreign direct investment. We show that a one percent point … reduction in the political risk spread is associated with a 12 percent increase in net-inflows of foreign direct investment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951038
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Networked FDI: Sales and Sourcing Patterns of Japanese Foreign Affiliates
Baldwin, Richard; Okubo, Toshihiro - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper applies a novel empirical approach to characterising the horizontal-ness and vertical-ness of affiliates based on Yeaple's complex FDI concept. In its simplest form, horizontal-ness is measured as affiliates' local sales share while their vertical-ness is measures as their share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271363
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Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution
Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Becker, Sascha O. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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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International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurial Firm Activity
Alfaro, Laura; Charlton, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. We use a unique firm level data set of approximately 24 million firms in nearly 100 countries in 2004 and 1999, which enables us to present both cross-country and industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248756
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Grossman-Hart (1986) Goes Global: Incomplete Contracts, Property Rights, and the International Organization of Production
Antras, Pol - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
I survey the influence of Grossman and Hart's (1986) seminal paper in the field of International Trade. I discuss the implementation of the theory in open-economy environments and its implications for the international organization of production and the structure of international trade flows. I...
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The Value-Added Tax Reform Puzzle
Harrison, Ann E.; Cai, Jing - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
investment goods. While the goal of the experiment was to encourage upgrading of technology, our results suggest that there was … no evident increase overall in fixed investment, and employment fell significantly in the treated provinces and sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325535
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Separating the Opposing Effects of Bilateral Tax Treaties
Blonigen, Bruce A.; Oldenski, Lindsay; Sly, Nicholas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Bilateral tax treaties (BTT) are intended to promote foreign direct investment and foreign affiliate activity through … separately estimate the impacts of double-taxation relief and sharing of tax information on investment behavior of US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009328101
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Trade And Industrialisation After Globalisation's 2nd Unbundling: How Building And Joining A Supply Chain Are Different And Why It Matters
Baldwin, Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Revolutionary transformations of industry and trade occurred from 1985 to the late-1990s - the regionalisation of supply chains. Before 1985, successful industrialisation meant building a domestic supply chain. Today, industrialisers join supply chains and grow rapidly because offshored...
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Home and Host Country Effects of FDI
Lipsey, Robert E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002
Sweden. Within host countries, foreign- owned firms almost always pay higher wages than domestically- owned firms. It is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714163