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Foreign Takeovers and Wage Dispersion in Hungary
Csengödi, Sandor; Urban, Dieter M. - 2021
This study tests FDI technology spillover models with the assumption that learning takes time against wage bargaining … Hungarian employee-employer matched data from 1992 until 2001, and reject the FDI technology spillover model in favor of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316617
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834357
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The Structure of Multinational Firms' International Activities
Davies, Ronald B. - 2020
The structure of a multinational firm, that is how its affiliates relate to one another, is critical for understanding where multinationals locate, how policy affects them, and their resilience to localized shocks. Here, we review the two main structures: horizontal investments which replicate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839765
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Where Does Multinational Profit Go with Territorial Taxation? Evidence from the UK
Langenmayr, Dominika - 2020
In 2009, the United Kingdom abolished the taxation of profits earned abroad and introduced a territorial tax system. Under the territorial system, firms have strong incentives to shift profits abroad. Using a difference-in-differences research design, we show that profits of UK subsidiaries in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842969
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Switching from Worldwide to Territorial Taxation : Empirical Evidence of FDI Effects
Buettner, Thiess - 2019
This paper explores empirically whether and how FDI is affected if multinationals’ home countries change taxation of … foreign earnings by switching from worldwide to territorial taxation. Our analysis employs data for German inbound FDI based … synthetic-control method. Our results confirm effects of the switch from worldwide to territorial taxation on FDI but point at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892126
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Foreign Ownership and Skillbiased Technological Change
Koch, Michael - 2019
We conduct an empirical investigation into the effects of foreign ownership on worker skills using firm-level data from Spain. To control for endogeneity bias due to selection into foreign ownership, we combine a difference-in-differences approach with a propensity score weighting estimator. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892251
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823148
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Firm Exports, Foreign Ownership, and the Global Financial Crisis
Eppinger, Peter; Smolka, Marcel - 2021
The exceptional export performance of foreign-owned firms is a well-established stylized fact, but the underlying mechanism is not yet fully understood. In this paper, we provide theory and empirical evidence demonstrating that this fact can be explained by ownership differences in access to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251264
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FDI Technology Spillovers and Wages
Urban, Dieter M. - 2021
empirical findings of the MNE wage premium and the empirical FDI technology spillover literature are also discussed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316795
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Profit Shifting in the EU : Evidence from Germany
Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2021
The paper considers profit shifting behavior using data on German inbound and outbound FDI. It finds an empirical … increase in the profitability of the German affiliate. On the outbound side of German FDI, the data provides some evidence that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316976