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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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bilateral OECD outbound stocks of foreign direct investment (FDI) from 1991 to 2002. For this, we compile annual information on … bilateral tax treaties. Our findings indicate that the parent country's statutory corporate tax rate tends to foster outward FDI …, whereas the host country's statutory corporate and withholding tax rates are negatively associated with outward FDI …
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This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern … vertical FDI. The market-seeking strategy appears to be more important than factor-proportion related motivations; however, the … robust relationship of complementarity between trade integration and FDI provides at least one argument in support of …
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This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern … vertical FDI. The market-seeking strategy appears to be more important than factor-proportion related motivations; however, the … robust relationship of complementarity between trade integration and FDI provides at least one argument in support of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790167
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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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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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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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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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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