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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790984
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Institutions and offshoring decision
Nicolini, Marcella (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003597979
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307953
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010515424
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003720587
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002757744
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A simple explanation for the unfavorable tax treatment of investment costs
Panteghini, Paolo (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003364834
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Barriers to global capital allocation
Pellegrino, Bruno; Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2021
We quantify the impact of barriers to international investment, using a novel multi-country dynamic general equilibrium model with heterogeneous investors and imperfect capital mobility. Our model yields a gravity equation for bilateral foreign asset positions. We estimate this gravity equation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012514947
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Labour taxation and foreign direct investment
Egger, Peter (contributor); Radulescu, Doina (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003712504
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Unionisation triggers tax incentives to attract foreign direct investment
Haufler, Andreas (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003712512