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Contagious exporting and foreign ownership : evidence from firms in Shanghai using a Bayesian spatial bivariate probit model
Baltagi, Badi H.; Egger, Peter; Kesina, Michaela - 2018
Whether a firm is able to attract foreign capital and whether it may participate at the export market depends on whether the fixed costs associated with doing so are at least covered by the incremental operating profits. This paper provides evidence that success for some firms in attracting...
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Foreign ownership and the extensive margins of exports : evidence for manufacturing enterprises in Germany
Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2013
, productivity and industry affiliation. These differences between foreign-owned firms and domestically controlled firms are highly …
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Margins of multinational labor substitution
Muendler, Marc-Andreas (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003363979
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The life-cycle dynamics of exporters and multinational firms
Gumpert, Anna; Moxnes, Andreas; Ramondo, Natalia; … - 2017
This paper studies the life-cycle dynamics of exporters and multinational enterprises (MNEs). We present a dynamic model of trade and MNE activity in which the mode of serving a market depends on the well-known proximity-concentration tradeoff. We show that the option of performing MNE...
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Firm-specific characteristics and the timing of foreign direct investment projects
Raff, Horst (contributor); Ryan, Michael (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003462031
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Asset ownership and foreign-market entry
Raff, Horst (contributor); Ryan, Michael (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper examines the link between a firm’s ownership of productive assets and its choice of foreign-market entry strategy. We find that, controlling for industry- and country-specific characteristics, the most productive firms (i.e., those owning the most assets) will enter through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301155
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Former foreign affiliates : cast out and outperformed?
Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska; Poelhekke, Steven - 2014
similar control plants exist. The results indicate that divestment is associated with a drop in total factor productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010461272
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Information frictions, investment promotion, and multinational production : firm-level evidence
Carballo, Jerónimo; Marra de Artiñano, Ignacio; Volpe … - 2021
While countries make use of a wide range of policies to attract multinational firms, identifying the effect of such policies is difficult. Combining firm-level data on both the location of these firms' foreign affiliates and detailed service-specific information from Costa Rica's investment...
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A model of heterogeneous firm matches in cross-border mergers & acquisitions
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Gerritse, Michiel; … - 2018 - This version: May 2018
knowledge transfers - from high to low productivity firms - between acquirer and target. Using the Melitz (2003) model of … transfers, where the latter leads to assortative matching on productivity for firms in cross-border M&As. This is in line with … stylized facts (because M&As frequently occur between firms of similar productivity) and in contrast to the proximity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011862878
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Offshoring and skill-upgrading in French manufacturing : a Heckscher-Ohlin-Melitz view
Carluccio, Juan; Cuñat, Alejandro; Fadinger, Harald; … - 2015
fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor …-intensive inputs to the labor-abundant countries than low-productivity firms. Differently from the traditional versions of factor … intensity across firms that is positively correlated with firm productivity. Using French firm-level data for the years 1996 to …
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