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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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Intellectual Property Rights, Multinational Firms and Technology Transfers
Biancini, Sara - 2018
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protect firms from imitation and are considered crucial to promote innovation and technological diffusion. This paper examines the impact of IPR on import sourcing decisions of multinationals. We consider a framework in which firms offshore production of an...
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A Touch of Sophistication : FDI and Unit Values of Exports
Harding, Torfinn - 2009
The debate on trade and growth increasingly focuses on the composition of exports. Exports of more “sophisticated” products appear to be positively correlated with growth, and upgrading the quality of exports is high on the policy agenda of many countries. This study presents evidence...
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The Economics of a Multilateral Investment Agreement
Che, Jiahua - 2012
This paper models a multilateral agreement on investment (MAI) as a coordination device. Multinational enterprises can invest in any number of countries. Without a multilateral investment agreement, expropriation triggers an investment stop by the single MNE. Under a multilateral agreement,...
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Pricing the Transfer of Intellectual Property as a Problem of Second-Best Tax Policy
Richter, Wolfram F. - 2015
The adequate pricing of intellectual property ("IP") for tax reporting is a largely unsettled issue. Transactional profit-based methods are on the rise although only rated as "methods of last resort" by the OECD. This paper focuses on regulated profit splitting and compares this transfer pricing...
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Intellectual Property Rights, Product Complexity, and the Organization of Multinational Firms
Naghavi, Alireza; Spies, Julia; Toubal, Farid - 2021
down outsourcing into two types by distinguishing whether or not they involve technology sharing between the two parties … technology-sharing-outsourcing IPRs promote outsourcing of more complex goods to a destination country by guaranteeing the … protection of their technology, (ii) for non-technology-related-outsourcing IPRs attract the outsourcing of less complex products …
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Taxing Intellectual Property in the Global Economy : A Plea for Regulated and Internationally Coordinated Profit Splitting
Richter, Wolfram F. - 2017
Inter-country equity in the taxation of IP is a contentious issue. With its BEPS initiative, the OECD aims at taxing in accordance with value creation even though there are admitted difficulties in determining the actual place of value creation. The European Commission promotes the introduction...
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Intellectual Property Rights, Technology Transfer and Exports in Developing Countries
Yang, Lei; Maskus, Keith E. - 2021
technology chooses either exports or technology transfer through licensing as its mode of supplying the Southern market, based on … stronger IPR would enhance technology transfer through licensing and reduce the South firm's marginal production cost, thereby … strong IPR diminish competition and welfare, however. Adding foreign direct investment as an additional channel of technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316444
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Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution
Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Becker, Sascha O. - CESifo - 2006
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/10005766025
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International Joint Ventures and Internal vs. External Technology Transfer : Evidence from China
Jiang, Kun - 2018
other Chinese firms. Second, there is substantial international technology transfer not only to the joint venture itself but … also to the Chinese joint venture partner firm. Third, with technology spillovers typically outweighing negative …
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