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We develop a simple information-based model of FDI flows. On the one hand, the relative abundance of intangible capital in specialized industries in the source countries, which presumably generates expertise in screening investment projects in the host countries, enhances FDI flows. On the other...
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and Poland that with the new international division of labour emerging in Europe Austria, the high income country, is … specializing in the low skill intensive part of the value chain and Poland, the low income country, is specializing in the high … skill part. As a result, skilled workers in Austria are losing from outsourcing, while gaining in Poland. In Austria …
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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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Firms' Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activity has become the subject of a large literature in recent years. This paper analyzes CSR activity using quasi-experimental variation created by Section 135 of India's Companies Act of 2013, which requires (on a "comply-or-explain" basis) that...
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Direct experience of a peer's punishment might make non-punished peers reassess the probability and consequences of facing punishment and hence induce a change in their behavior. We test this mechanism in a setting, China, in which we observe the reactions to the same peer's punishment by listed...
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