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Panteghini, Paolo (contributor) - 2006

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The war on illegal drugs in producer and consumer countries : a simple analytical framework

Mejía, Daniel (contributor) - 2008

data for the war on drugs in Colombia, and against consumption in the U.S., to calibrate the unobservable parameters of the … ; Plan Colombia …

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A unified theory of firm selection and growth

Arkolakis, Costas - 2009

This paper develops a theory of firm selection and growth and embeds it into an international trade framework of balanced growth. I assume that firm-level growth is the result of idiosyncratic productivity improvements while there is continuous arrival of new potential producers. Firms can also...

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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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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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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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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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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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Institutions and offshoring decision

Nicolini, Marcella (contributor) - 2007

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Asymmetric taxation and cross-border investment decisions

Niemann, Rainer - 2004

This paper analyzes the impact of particular loss offset limitations on intrastate and crossborder investment decisions. Investment can be realized in the investor's domestic business, in a foreign branch or in a foreign subsidiary. The relative impact on the optimal real investment alternative...

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