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Do Stringent Environmental Policies Deter FDI? M&A versus Greenfield

Bialek, Sylwia; Weichenrieder, Alfons - CESifo - 2015

This study examines how environmental stringency affects the location decision of foreigndirect investments. We analyze a firm-level data set on German outbound FDI and innovate onprevious studies by controlling for the mode of entry and applying the mixed-logit analysis. Theresults show that...

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Determinants of Survival of Newly Created SMEs in the Brazilian Manufacturing: An Econometric Study

Facanha, Luis Otávio; Resende, Marcelo; Cardoso, Vicente - CESifo - 2012

The paper investigates the survival of newly created small and medium enterprises in Brazilian manufacturing taking as …. Salient results include the positive role played by firm size, industry size and industry growth on survival and yet the …

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Die Another Day: Duration in German Import Trade

Nitsch, Volker - CESifo - 2007

at the 8-digit product level from 1995 to 2005. I find that survival probabilities are affected by exporter …

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Surviving the Titanic Disaster: Economic, Natural and Social Determinants

Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - CESifo - 2009

chance of survival than those in second and third class. British passengers were more likely to perish than members of other …

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Survival of New Firms in the Brazilian Franchising Segment: An Empirical Study

Facanha, Luis Otávio; Resende, Marcelo; Cardoso, Vicente; … - CESifo - 2011

The paper investigates survival patterns of Brazilian franchising firms during the 1994-1999 period. First, at a more … descriptive level one considered the (percentage) survival of newly created franchisors in the following years. The evidence … indicated a drastic decay in survival after only a few years and contrasts with the higher survival of firms in the franchising …

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

Darby, Julia - 2011

This paper investigates whether the higher prevalence of South multinational enterprises (MNEs) in risky developing countries may be explained by the experience that they have acquired of poor institutional quality at home. We confirm the intuition provided by our analytical model by empirically...

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Tax Rate and Tax Base Competition for Foreign Direct Investment

Egger, Peter H. - 2011

This paper argues that the large reduction in corporate tax rates and only gradual widening of tax bases in many countries over the last decades are consistent with tougher international competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). To make this point we develop a model in which governments...

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Home Bank Intermediation of Foreign Direct Investment

Poelhekke, Steven - 2011

This paper investigates the benefits of banks' direct investment in foreign subsidiaries and branches for non-financial multinationals. The paper builds on the literature on international banks which has primarily focused on the implications for host countries, rather than for its international...

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The Empirics of China's Outward Direct Investment

Cheung, Yin-Wong - 2013

We investigate the empirical determinants of China's outward direct investment (ODI). It is found that China's investments in developed and developing countries are driven by different sets of factors. Subject to the differences between developed and developing countries, there is evidence that...

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Location of Foreign Direct Investment in Vertically Related Markets

Milliou, Chrysovalantou - 2013

We provide an alternative explanation for the commonly observed FDI in developed countries (DCs) considering a vertically related market structure and endogenizing vertical technology transfer (VTT). We show that even though VTT is more costly in a less developed country (LDC), a multinational...

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