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Former Foreign Affiliates : Cast Out and Outperformed?

Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska - 2015

The literature has documented a positive effect of foreign ownership on firm performance. But is this effect due to a one-time knowledge transfer or does it rely on continuous injections of knowledge? To shed light on this question we focus on divestments, that is, foreign affiliates that are...

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Indian Entrepreneurial Success in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom

Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A.; … - 2021

Kingdom and Canada -- we examine the performance of Indian entrepreneurs and explanations for their success. We find that … Canada, Indian entrepreneurs have average earnings slightly below the national average but they are more likely to hire … Canada and the United Kingdom contributing less to their entrepreneurial success …

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What Drives Home Market Advantage?

Cosar, Kerem - 2015

In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms earn their highest market share within their domestic market. This home market advantage persists despite substantial integration of international markets during the past several decades. The goal of this paper is to quantify...

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There's No Place Like Home : The Profitability Gap between Headquarters and their Foreign Subsidiaries

Dischinger, Matthias; Riedel, Nadine - 2021

Using a large data set of European firms, this paper provides evidence that operations at multinational headquarters are significantly more profitable than operations at their foreign subsidiaries. The effect turns out to be robust and quantitatively large. Our findings suggest that the...

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Managers as Knowledge Carriers - Explaining Firms' Internationalization Success with Manager Mobility

Meinen, Philipp - 2018

How does “what managers know” affect firm performance on international markets? This question is of considerable importance in the international economic literature. Answering it will be key for comprehending the way firms' varying performance on international markets is shaped by the human...

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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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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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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...

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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...

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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...

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