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Do civil and political repression really boost foreign direct investments?
Harms, Philipp; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2001
Multinational enterprises are often accused to have a preference for investing in countries in which the working populations' civil and political rights are largely disregarded. This paper presents an empirical investigation of the popular political repression boosts FDI hypothesis and arrives...
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Measuring firm activity from outer space
Bilicka, Katarzyna; Seidel, André - 2022 - This draft: April 2022
To understand how global firm networks operate, we need consistent information on their activities, unbiased by their reporting choices. In this paper, we collect a novel dataset on the light that factories emit at night for a large sample of car manufacturing plants. We show that nightlight...
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Economic costs of friend-shoring
Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska; Kitzmüller, Lucas; … - 2023
Geo-political tensions and disruptions to global value chains have led policy makers to re-evaluate their approach to globalisation. Many countries are considering friend-shoring - trading primarily with countries sharing similar values - as a way of minimising exposure to weaponisation of trade...
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How low business tax rates attract multinational headquarters : municipality-level evidence from Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter; Merlo, Valeria - 2009
,000 municipalities in Germany to analyze the sensitivity of the location decisions of foreign MNEs with respect to business tax rates …
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The hardships of long distance relationships : time zone proximity and knowledge transmission within multinational firms
Bahar, Dany - 2018
Using a unique dataset on worldwide multinational corporations with precise location of headquarters and affiliates, I present evidence of a trade-off between distance to the headquarters and the knowledge intensity of the foreign subsidiary's economic activity, emerging from dynamics related to...
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Megatrends in International Business : Examining the Influence of Trends on Doing Business Internationally
Batas, Spiros (ed.); Kuivalainen, Olli (ed.);  … - AIB-UKI Conference <47., 2021, Online> - 2022
academic work has been published in journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business … Review, Journal of World Business, International Business Review, Journal of International Management, Journal of Business … perspectives on international business, Consulting editor for Journal of World Business and Associate editor for Transnational …
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Unlocking the value of cross-border mergers and acquisitions
Brakman, Steven; Garita, Gus; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2008
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The Theory and Application of Multinational Corporate Governance
Runhui, Lin; Chen, Jean Jinghan - 2022
innovation, playing a pivotal role in the world economy and the global technological revolution. However, MNEs are also often … COVID- 19 runs rampant across the world, populism and deglobalisation have resurged, and protectionism and unilateralism are … exerting negative impacts on the world economy. Achieving sustainable development in this context is a test of a company …
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The global minimum tax
Johannesen, Niels - 2022
This paper studies how the global minimum tax shapes national tax policies and welfare in a formal model of international tax competition with heterogeneous countries. The net welfare effect is generally ambiguous from the perspective of non-havens. On the one hand, the global minimum tax raises...
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North-South Globalization and Foreign Direct Investment : Essays in International Economics
Schwab, Jakob - 2018
analysis may turn around when accounting for peculiarities of North-South globalization. The author shows how endowments with …
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