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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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Optimal ownership and firm performance : an analysis of China's FDI liberalization

Eppinger, Peter S.; Ma, Hong - 2023

Seminal theories of the firm posit that firm ownership is allocated to minimize contractual inefficiencies. Yet, it remains unclear how much the optimal ownership choice affects firm performance in practice. This paper provides a first quantification of the gains from optimal ownership within...

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Expatriate managers : effects on firm performance

Koren, Miklós; Telegdy, Álmos - 2024

Using a novel Hungarian dataset on firms and their Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), we estimate the impact of hiring expatriate CEOs. By examining foreign acquisitions where the new owner replaces the incumbent CEO with an expatriate or a local CEO, we address the selection into both acquisition...

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Firm-specific characteristics and the timing of foreign direct investment projects

Raff, Horst (contributor); Ryan, Michael (contributor) - 2006

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There's no place like home : the profitability gap between headquarters and their foreign subsidiaries

Dischinger, Matthias; Riedel, Nadine - 2009

Using a large data set of European firms, this paper provides evidence that operations at multinational headquarters are significantly more profitable than operations at their foreign subsidiaries. The effect turns out to be robust and quantitatively large. Our findings suggest that the...

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Former foreign affiliates : cast out and outperformed?

Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska; Poelhekke, Steven - 2014

The literature has documented a positive effect of foreign ownership on firm performance. But is this effect due to a one-time knowledge transfer or does it rely on continuous injections of knowledge? To shed light on this question we focus on divestments, that is, foreign affiliates that are...

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Is it just luring reported profit? : the case of European patent boxes

Köthenbürger, Marko; Liberini, Federica; Stimmelmayr, … - 2018

Patent box regimes have become increasingly popular as an instrument to attract taxable income from intellectual property (IP). This paper assesses the quantitative impact of patent box regimes on profit shifting by multinational enterprises (MNEs). We proxy the ability to access the tax benefit...

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Anti profit-shifting rules and foreign direct investment

Büttner, Thiess; Overesch, Michael; Wamser, Georg - 2014

This paper explores the effects of tax provisions aimed at restricting multinationals' tax planning on foreign direct investment (FDI). Using a unique dataset which allows us to observe the worldwide activities of a large panel of multinational firms, we test how limitations of interest tax...

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On the implications of introducing cross-border loss-offset in the European Union

Kalamov, Zarko; Runkel, Marco - 2015

This article investigates a tax competition model where countries compete for capital and profits of multinational enterprises (MNEs) through statutory tax rates and cross-border loss-offset provisions, which allow a transfer of foreign subsidiaries’ losses to the parent company. A joint...

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Service imports, workforce composition, and firm performance : evidence from Finnish microdata

Ariu, Andrea; Nilsson-Hakkala, Katariina; Jensen, J. … - 2019

This paper uses unique Finnish firm-level micro data on service imports, work-force composition, and firm … characteristics to examine changes in employment composition and performance of Finnish service importers during a period of a … significant increase in services imports (2002-2012). We use world service export supply shocks, which we allocate to firms based …

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