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firms. Using firm-level data for 2001-2005, we find evidence of positive spillovers originating from FDI from countries … main finding is that domestic firms operating in industries characterised by a greater reliance on external finance, our …This paper examines whether credit constraints affect Chinese firms' absorption of productivity spillovers from foreign …
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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 …
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resorted to empirical analysis in order to gain insights on the elasticity of FDI with respect to company taxation. As a result … empirical evidence. In this paper we extend former meta-analyses on FDI and taxation in three ways. First, we add the most …, we address some important issues in research on FDI and taxation to the clarification of which meta-analysis can make …
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direct investment (FDI) in a given host country is moderated significantly, and even in some cases eliminated, when MNEs have …
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the volume of FDI by home market banks boosts FDI by non-financial firms from the same home market. Domestic and third … 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 …
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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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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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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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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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strategy. We find that, controlling for industry - and country-specific characteristics, the most productive firms (i.e., those … productive ones will export. In addition, the most productive firms are shown to prefer whole ownership to a joint venture. These …
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