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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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International investment positions and exchange rate dynamics : a dynamic panel analysis
Binder, Michael (contributor);  … - 2007
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FDI determination and corporate tax competition in a volatile world
Ghinamo, Mauro (contributor); Panteghini, Paolo (contributor) - 2007
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Membership has its privileges : the effect of membership in international organizations on FDI
Dreher, Axel; Mikosch, Heiner; Voigt, Stefan - 2010
We argue that membership in International Organizations (IOs) is an important determinant of FDI inflows. To the extent that membership restricts a country from pursuing policies that are harmful to investors, it can signal low political risk. Using data over the 1971-2005 period, we find that...
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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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Complementarity of innovation policies in the Brazilian industry : an econometric study
Strube, Eduardo; Resende, Marcelo - 2009
The paper aims at assessing discrete complementarities in innovation policies in the context of the Brazilian industry in 2003. The paper considers the approach advanced by Mohnen and and Röller [European Economic Review, 2005] that focuses on supermodularity and submodularity tests for...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864328
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Exploring the intensive and extensive margins of world trade : presented at Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on Dissecting Globalization, July 2004
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2004
World trade evolves at two margins. Where a bilateral trading relationship already exists it may increase through time … have not traded with each other in the past (extensive margin). We provide an empirical dissection of post-World-War- II … growth in manufacturing world trade along these two margins. We propose a "cornersolutions- version"of the gravity model to …
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