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Skilled emigration, business networks and foreign direct investment

Kugler, Maurice (contributor); Rapoport, Hillel (contributor) - 2005

In a global context foreign direct investment (FDI) and migration substitute one another in the matching process between workers and firms. However, as labor flows can lead to the formation of business networks, migration can actually facilitate FDI in the long-run. We first present a stylized...

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How far away is an intangible? : services FDI and distance

Davies, Ronald B.; Guillin, Amélie - 2011

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in services has grown significantly in recent years. Evidence of spatial relationships in FDI decisions have been provided for goods manufacturing by utilizing physical distance-based measures of trade costs. This paper investigates spatial interactions for...

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The location of cross-border mergers & acquisitions in the USA

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2015 - First version: October 2014, this version: April 2015

neglected. In this paper we analyze the within country location-target selection of M&As in the USA. Extending Guadalupe (2012 … the USA for the period 1985-2012, we compare location choices of cross-border M&As to that of national M&As. We find that … across the USA than national M&As, and that for both forms of M&As location specific market access in the USA as well as …

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A simple explanation for the unfavorable tax treatment of investment costs

Panteghini, Paolo (contributor) - 2006

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Growth, foreign direct investment and urban concentrations : unbundling spatial lags

Poelhekke, Steven (contributor); … - 2008

Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear that primacy eventually hurts growth performance. Since it is tough to interpret cross-country growth regressions, we provide detailed evidence on the determinants of outward FDI...

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Institutions and offshoring decision

Nicolini, Marcella (contributor) - 2007

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Horizontal versus vertical interdependence in multinational activity

Badinger, Harald (contributor); Egger, Peter (contributor) - 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...

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Multinational Enterprises, International Trade, and Productivity Growth : Firm-Level Evidence from the United States

Keller, Wolfgang - 2003

We estimate international technology spillovers to U.S. manufacturing firms via imports and foreign direct investment (FDI) between the years of 1987 and 1996. In contrast to earlier work, our results suggest that FDI leads to significant productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI...

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Does Partisan Conflict Deter FDI Inflows to the US?

Azzimonti, Marina - 2016

I analyze how partisan conflict about trade policy affects foreign direct investment flows to the US using a novel indicator, the Trade Partisan Conflict Index (TPCI). Partisan conflict is relevant for the evolution of cross-border capital flows because the expected returns on investment...

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