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Information Frictions, Investment Promotion, and Multinational Production : Firm-Level Evidence
Carballo, Jerónimo; Artiñano, Ignacio Marra; Volpe … - 2021
While countries make use of a wide range of policies to attract multinational firms, identifying the effect of such policies is difficult. Combining firm-level data on both the location of these firms’ foreign affiliates and detailed service-specific information from Costa Rica’s investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229704
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Growing like China : firm performance and global production line position
Chor, Davin; Manova, Kalina; Yu, Zhihong - 2020 - Version of August, 2020
firms position themselves in global production lines and how this evolves with productivity and performance over the firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501399
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A touch of sophistication: FDI and unit values of exports
Harding, Torfinn; Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska - 2009
The debate on trade and growth increasingly focuses on the composition of exports. Exports of more “sophisticated” products appear to be positively correlated with growth, and upgrading the quality of exports is high on the policy agenda of many countries. This study presents evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266010
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Information Frictions, Investment Promotion, and Multinational Production: Firm-Level Evidence
Carballo, Jerónimo; Marra de Artiñano, Ignacio; Volpe … - 2021
While countries make use of a wide range of policies to attract multinational firms, identifying the effect of such policies is difficult. Combining firm-level data on both the location of these firms’ foreign affiliates and detailed service-specific information from Costa Rica’s investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582106
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Managing Trade: Evidence from China and the US
Bloom, Nicholas; Manova, Kalina; Van Reenen, John; Sun, … - 2018
We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find broad support for the model’s predictions. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011887373
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Global sourcing decisions and firm productivity: evidence from Spain
Kohler, Wilhelm K.; Smolka, Marcel - 2009
We investigate the link between productivity of firms and their sourcing behavior. Following Antràs & Helpman (2004) we … productivity premia associated with the different sourcing strategies. We find strong empirical support for the predictions of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274468
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World Market Access of Emerging-Market Firms: The Role of Foreign Ownership and Access to External Finance
Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2013
. Applying propensity score matching to control for differences across firms in terms of labor productivity, size, etc., we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318815
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International Value-Added Linkages in Development Accounting
Cuñat, Alejandro - 2018
endowments and productivity, relative factor costs emerge as a source of real-income variation across countries. These are shaped … “residual” productivity required to explain the observed per-capita income differences by more than one half …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908693
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The Intensive Margin in Trade
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2019
-distributed firm productivity and fixed costs of exporting, predicts that, conditional on the fixed costs of exporting, all variation … of firm productivity allows the Melitz model to successfully match the role of the intensive margin evident in the EDD … estimate a generalized Melitz model with a joint lognormal distribution for firm productivity, fixed costs and demand shifters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012890632
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Transfer Pricing and the Arm's Length Principle under Imperfect Competition
Choi, Jay Pil; Furusawa, Taiji; Ishikawa, Jota - 2018
This paper analyzes incentives of a multinational enterprise to manipulate an internal transfer price to take advantage of corporate-tax differences across countries under both monopoly and oligopoly. We examine “cost plus” and “comparable uncontrollable price” as two alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932053