How does outward foreign direct investment (FDI) affect employment growth of the multinationals (MNCs) in the home …

We examine the economic justification for providing investment subsidies to foreign-owned multinationals. These provide … returns to scale. Offering subsidies to multinationals may be in the national interest if the investment raises the net value …, countries may compete to attract investment. This subsidy competition transfers much of the rents to the multinationals. …

The rising importance of multinationals in the world economy has been accompanied by a rise in trade between affiliates … of multinationals located in different countries, and by profits being shifted to low tax countries. The effect of trade … finance literature. This Paper analyses how competition over shifty profits affects tax policy as trade barriers are lowered …

exercising a stronger effect in most quantiles. Such distinct FDI effects stress the importance of policy modifications according …

impacts result from acquisitions by EU multinationals. Also we discern some positive wage effects for unskilled workers … resulting from acquisitions by multinationals from the rest of the world. …

technology and on the division of the world endowment between countries. Multinationals are more likely to exist the more similar … are countries in both relative and absolute endowments. Where multinationals exist they reduce the volume of trade and …

potentially problematic, as they depend on a number of restrictive assumptions, namely that (i) multinationals use domestically … produced inputs in the same proportion as imported inputs, (ii) multinationals have the same input sourcing behaviour as … domestic firms, irrespective of their country of origin, and (iii) the demand for locally produced inputs by multinationals is …