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Does Public Governance Always Matter? How Experience of Poor Institutional Quality Influences FDI to the South

Darby, Julia - 2011

direct investment (FDI) in a given host country is moderated significantly, and even in some cases eliminated, when MNEs have …

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Home Bank Intermediation of Foreign Direct Investment

Poelhekke, Steven - 2011

countries, rather than for its international clients, and on the literature on foreign direct investment (FDI), which emphasizes … significant costs of investment. Using a new detailed data set of non-stationary sector-level outward FDI, this paper finds that … the volume of FDI by home market banks boosts FDI by non-financial firms from the same home market. Domestic and third …

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Preference Bias and Outsourcing to Market : A Steady-State Analysis

Wang, Ping - 2008

We analyze a model that focuses on the export/outsource decision. Outsourcing has the advantage of providing better information about local preferences. The disadvantage is that producing in the host country also means using the inferior technology embodied in the local capital. The decision of...

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Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution

Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2008

Multinational labor demand responds to wage differentials at the extensive margin, when a multinational enterprise (MNE) expands into foreign locations, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE operates existing affiliates across locations. We derive conditions for parametric and nonparametric...

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In Praise of Tax Havens : International Tax Planning and Foreign Direct Investment

Hong, Qing - 2007

The multinationalization of corporate investment in recent years has given rise to a number of international tax avoidance schemes that may be eroding tax revenues in industrialized countries, but which may also reduce tax burdens on mobile capital and so facilitate investment. Both the welfare...

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The Effect of FDI on Job Separation

Becker, Sascha O. - 2006

performance to vary with foreign direct investment (FDI) and shows that the foreign expansion itself is the dominant explanatory … outward FDI would lead to more domestic worker separations. FDI raises domestic-worker retention more pronouncedly among …

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Asset Ownership and Foreign-Market Entry

Raff, Horst - 2006

This paper examines the link between a firm's ownership of productive assets and its choice of foreign-market entry strategy. We find that, controlling for industry - and country-specific characteristics, the most productive firms (i.e., those owning the most assets) will enter through...

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Is Human Capital Losing from Outsourcing? Evidence for Austria and Poland

Lorentowicz, Andzelika - 2006

Feenstra and Hanson (1997) have argued in the context of the North American Free Trade Agreement that US outsourcing to Mexico leads to an increase in the skill premium in both the US and Mexico. In this paper we show on the example of Austria and Poland that with the new international division...

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Horizontal versus Vertical Interdependence in Multinational Activity

Badinger, Harald - 2008

Recent research in international economics highlights the role of interdependencies of investment decisions and sales of multinational firms. Previous work focused on and provided evidence for aggregate flows or stocks of foreign direct investment, showing that interdependence declines in...

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Labour Taxation and Foreign Direct Investment

Egger, Peter H. - 2008

them to shed light on their role for bilateral foreign direct investment (FDI) stocks among the economies considered. Not … surprisingly, personal income tax rates turn out relatively less important than profit tax rates for bilateral FDI stocks. The … employee-borne part of labor taxes determines bilateral FDI significantly different from zero: both a higher employee-borne tax …

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