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Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions : The Facts as a Guide for International Economics
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2021
-seeking', (iii) M&As come in waves (the most recent wave is still unfolding), (iv) economic integration (international deregulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317375
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The Location of Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions in the USA
Brakman, Steven - 2015
The research on the location choice for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is traditionally restricted to a choice between countries. The within-country location choice is less prominent in the literature. If within-country location decisions are considered it is mostly limited to Greenfield...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023112
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Tax Competition : Greenfield Investment Versus Mergers and Acquisitions
Becker, Johannes; Fuest, Clemens - 2021
In this paper, we analyze tax competition in a model where investor firms have the choice between two types of investment, greenfield investment and mergers and acquisitions. We show that the coexistence of these two types of investment intensifies tax competition in comparison to the case where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316566
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The Trade and Welfare Effects of Mergers in Space
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter H. - 2021
This paper analyzes the consequences of cross-border mergers in a spatial framework, thereby distinguishing three channels of influence: a price increase due to the elimination of product market competition, an adjustment in plant location which reduces overall transportation cost expenditures,...
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Organized Crime and Foreign Direct Investment : The Italian Case
Daniele, Vittorio - 2011
different estimation methods for panel data. The results show how the correlation between organized crime is both negative and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012756493
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Gender Unemployment Catching-Up : Empirical Evidence from Italian Regions
Belloc, Marianna - 2011
We study the persistence of the gender unemployment gap in the Italian regions in the 1992-2009 period. Results from unit-root tests analysis with structural break suggest that the process of gender catching-up in the unemployment rates is occurring in most of the regions but at different pace....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131352
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Temporary Employment, Job Flows and Productivity : A Tale of Two Reforms
Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2011
We investigate the effects of two reforms of temporary employment using panel data on Italian firms. We exploit variation in their implementation across regions and sectors for identification. We find that the reform of apprenticeship contracts increased job turnover and induced the substitution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122251
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Aggregation in Large Dynamic Panels
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2015
Carlo experiments, where we also study the estimation of the aggregate effects of micro and macro shocks. The paper … concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038262
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The Development of Cities in Italy 1300 - 1861
Bosker, Erik Maarten - 2007
city sizes and the city-size distribution as a whole to highlight the main characteristics of Italy's urban system such as … the differences between northern and southern Italy. Our second, and main, contribution is that our data allow for panel … estimation where city-size is regressed on various geographical, political and other determinants of city size for the period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777824
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Seasonality in Smoking Behaviour : Re-Evaluating the Effects of the 2005 Public Smoking Ban in Italy
Bono, Emilia Del; Grünberger, Klaus; Vuri, Daniela - 2021
This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315560