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Determinants of Global Value Chain Participation : Cross-Country Evidence
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2020
The past decades witnessed big changes in international trade with the rise of global value chains. Some countries, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam rode the tide, while other countries, many in the Africa region, faltered. This paper studies the determinants of participation in global value...
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Investor-State Dispute Settlement and Multinational Firm Behavior
Schjelderup, Guttorm - 2020
This paper shows that Investor-State Dispute Settlements (ISDS) makes multinational firms more aggressive by increasing cost-reducing investments with the aim to enlarge the potential compensation an ISDS provision may offer. While a larger investment reduces the market distortion, it will also...
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Switching from Worldwide to Territorial Taxation : Empirical Evidence of FDI Effects
Buettner, Thiess - 2019
the importance of the actual tax rate. For Japan, which charges a higher tax rate on corporate profits than Germany, we … find a substantial increase of FDI in Germany after the switch from worldwide to territorial taxation. For the UK, which … imposes a lower tax rate than Germany, the switch to territorial taxation is not found to exert any significant effects on …
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Do Multinational Firms Use Tax Havens to the Detriment of Other Countries?
Dharmapala, Dhammika - 2020
The use of tax havens by multinational corporations (MNCs) has attracted increasing attention and scrutiny in recent years. This paper provides an exposition of the academic literature on this topic. It begins with an overview of the basic facts regarding MNCs' use of havens, which are...
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Gravity-Model Estimation with Time-Interval Data : Revisiting the Impact of Free Trade Agreements
Egger, Peter - 2020
We challenge the common practice of estimating gravity equations with time-interval data in order to capture dynamic-adjustment effects to trade-policy changes. Instead, we point to a series of advantages of using consecutive-year data recognizing dynamic-adjustment effects. Our analysis reveals...
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Quantifying the Impact of Economic Sanctions on International Trade in the Energy and Mining Sectors
Larch, Mario; Shikher, Serge; Syropoulos, Constantinos; … - 2021
Capitalizing on the latest developments in the gravity literature, we utilize two new datasets on sanctions and trade to study the impact of economic sanctions on international trade in the mining sector, which includes oil and natural gas. We demonstrate that the gravity equation is well suited...
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Institutions and Offshoring Decision
Nicolini, Marcella - 2021
Several papers have proven that the institutional environment of the receiving country can influence the choice to establish an FDI. Property rights theory suggests that contract enforcement matters differentially across sectors. This paper is the first attempt to test whether institutions...
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Local Global Watchdogs : Trade, Sourcing and the Internationalization of Social Activism
Koenig, Pamina; Krautheim, Sebastian; Löhnert, Claudius; … - 2021
NGO campaigns against firms with value chains involving production in developing and emerging economies are a salient feature of economic globalization. What determines the patterns of the internationalization of NGO campaigns? Stylized facts obtained from recently available data containing 102...
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Globally Engaged Firms in the COVID-19 Crisis
Constantinescu, Cristina; Fernandes, Ana M.; Poupakis, … - 2022
This paper analyzes the initial impact and recovery of globally engaged firms from the COVID-19 crisis. It uses rich survey data of nearly 65,000 firm-year observations in 45 countries spanning three waves of data collection. The findings are organized in a series of stylized facts, which...
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Offshoring and labor income risk : an empirical investigation
Hogrefe, Jan; Yao, Yao - 2012
This paper analyses how increased offshoring impacts on labor income risk. It is therefore distinct from a large number of studies explaining the level effects of globalization on the labor market in that it takes a look at effects on the variability of incomes. It provides an assessment that...
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