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International joint ventures and internal vs. external technology transfer : evidence from China
Jiang, Kun; Keller, Wolfgang; Qiu, Larry D.; Ridley, William - 2018
externalities are large, perhaps twice the size of wholly-owned FDI spillovers, and it is R&D-intensive firms, including the joint … virtually absent in broad sectors that include economic activities for which China's FDI policy has prohibited joint ventures. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011855593
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Preferential trade agreements and tax competition for foreign direct investment
Raff, Horst - 2002
This paper examines how free-trade agreements and customs unions affect the location of foreign direct investment (FDI …) and social welfare, taking into account that governments may adjust taxes and external tariffs to compete for FDI …. Conditions are identified under which a free-trade agreement leads to FDI and under which this improves welfare. The welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410658
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Global profit shifting of multinational companies : evidence from CbCR micro data
Fuest, Clemens; Greil, Stefan; Hugger, Felix Sebastian; … - 2022
This paper uses micro data from country-by-country reporting of more than 3600 large multinational companies operating in 238 jurisdictions to analyze global profit shifting to avoid taxes. These companies report 7% of their global profits in jurisdictions with effective average tax rates below...
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Corporate profit shifting and the role of tax havens : evidence from German country-by-country reporting data
Fuest, Clemens; Hugger, Felix; Neumeier, Florian - 2021
This paper is the first to use information from individual country-by-country (CbC) re-ports to assess the extent of profit shifting by multinational enterprises. Unlike other data often used to evaluate the extent of profit shifting and tax avoidance, CbC reports pro-vide a complete coverage of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012417748
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Global firms, national corporate taxes : an evolution of incompatibility
Hebous, Shafik - 2020
How did the rise of multinational enterprises (MNEs) put pressure on the prevailing international corporate tax framework? MNEs, and firms with market power, are not new phenomena, nor is the corporate income tax, which dates to the early 20th century. This prompts the question, what is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012288036
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Investor-state dispute settlement and multinational firm behavior
Schjelderup, Guttorm; Stähler, Frank - 2020
This paper shows that Investor-State Dispute Settlements (ISDS) makes multinational firms more aggressive by increasing cost-reducing investments with the aim to enlarge the potential compensation an ISDS provision may offer. While a larger investment reduces the market distortion, it will also...
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Foreign ownership and skillbiased technological change
Koch, Michael; Smolka, Marcel - 2018
We conduct an empirical investigation into the effects of foreign ownership on worker skills using firm-level data from Spain. To control for endogeneity bias due to selection into foreign ownership, we combine a difference-in-differences approach with a propensity score weighting estimator. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011929606
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Multinationals, robots, and the labor share
Leone, Fabrizio - 2024
Using a panel of Spanish manufacturing firms covering the 1990-2017 period, I document new evidence about affiliates of multinational enterprises (MNEs): after being acquired, they exhibit a higher propensity to use robots, which leads to a reduction in their labor share. These effects are...
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Sources of productivity spillovers : panel data evidence from China
Baltagi, Badi H.; Egger, Peter; Kesina, Michaela - 2014
This paper assesses sources of productivity spillovers in China's electric and electronic manufacturing industry using a rich panel data-set of 25,360 firms observed over the period 2004-2007. This industry is characterized by its important reliance on technology. In particular, the paper...
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Firm-level productivity spillovers in China's chemical industry : a spatial Hausman-Taylor approach
Baltagi, Badi H.; Egger, Peter; Kesina, Michaela - 2014
This paper assesses the role of intra-sectoral spillovers in total factor productivity across Chinese producers in the chemical industry. We use a rich panel data-set of 12,552 firms observed over the period 2004 - 2006 and model output by the firm as a function of skilled and unskilled labor,...
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