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On the organizational structure of multinational firms : which sourcing mode for which Input?

Nowak, Verena Nina; Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2012

Recent studies indicate that firms often outsource standard and simple tasks, while keeping complex and important inputs inside their boundaries. This observation is difficult to reconcile with the property rights approach of the firm, which suggests that important components should be...

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Cross-border and foreign-affiliate sales of services : evidence from German micro-data

Kelle, Markus; Kleinert, Jörn; Raff, Horst; Toubal, Farid - 2012

We merge German balance-of-payments and foreign-affiliate-trade statistics to obtain data about trade in commercial services at the firm level. We use these data to study export market participation and the choice of export mode: cross-border versus foreign affiliate sales. We find that for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535116

Global sourcing of complex production processes

Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2011

We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and global scale. Specifically, the firm decides i) how thinly it wants to slice its production process by choosing the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are...

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Vertical foreign direct investment : make, sell and (not) buy

Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Sandonís, Joel - 2016

According to conventional wisdom, multinational firms undertake vertical FDI in order to take advantage of cross-border factor cost differences and source the inputs from abroad at better terms. Recent empirical findings though document that this is not always the case. We provide theoretical...

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Downstream merger with oligopolistic input suppliers

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Straume, Odd Rune; Sørgard, Lars - 2002

We examine how a downstream merger affects input prices and, in turn, the profitability of a such a merger under Cournot competition with differentiated products. Input suppliers can be interpreted as ordinary upstream firms, or trade unions organising workers. If the input suppliers are...

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The structure of multinational firms' international activities

Davies, Ronald B.; Markusen, James R. - 2020

The structure of a multinational firm, that is how its affiliates relate to one another, is critical for understanding where multinationals locate, how policy affects them, and their resilience to localized shocks. Here, we review the two main structures: horizontal investments which replicate...

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U.S. multinationals and preferential market access

Blanchard, Emily; Matschke, Xenia - 2012

a three-way panel that spans 80 industries, 184 countries, and ten years (1997-2006). Consistent with existing theory …

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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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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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Thin capitalization rules and multinational firm capital structure

Blouin, Jennifer L.; Huizinga, Harry; Laeven, Luc; … - 2014

This paper examines the impact of thin capitalization rules that limit the tax deductibility of interest on the capital structure of the foreign affiliates of US multinationals. We construct a new data set on thin capitalization rules in 54 countries for the period 1982-2004. Using confidential...

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