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A Touch of Sophistication : FDI and Unit Values of Exports
Harding, Torfinn - 2009
many countries. This study presents evidence suggesting that attracting inflows of FDI offers potential for upgrading a … sectors treated by investment promotion agencies as priority in their efforts to attract FDI. The sample covers 116 countries … over the period 1984-2000. The findings are consistent with a positive effect of FDI on unit values of exports in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153286
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131603
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123798
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772614
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012774187
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777300
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778928
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780461
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783602
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771644