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Corporate Social Responsibility along the global value chain
Herkenhoff, Philipp; Krautheim, Sebastian; Semrau, Finn Ole - 2021
Firms are under increasing pressure to meet stakeholders’ demand for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) along their global value chains. We study the incentives for and investments in CSR at different stages of the production process. We analyze a model of sequential production with...
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The US-China trade war and the relocation of global value chains to Mexico
Utar, Hâle; Zurita, Alfonso Cebreros; Torres Ruiz, … - 2023
Did the 2018/19 US-China trade war trigger adjustment of Global Value Chains (GVCs) and nearshoring to Mexico? We address this question with confidential longitudinal firm-level trade data from Mexico that covers the universe of international trade transactions over 2015-2021. By merging the...
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U.S. multinationals and preferential market access
Blanchard, Emily; Matschke, Xenia - 2012
This paper examines the relationship between offshoring activity by U.S. multinational firms and the structure of U.S trade preferences. We combine firm level panel data on U.S. foreign affiliate activity from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) with detailed measures of U.S. trade...
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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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Global collaborative patents
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016
We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative...
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Horizontal versus vertical interdependence in multinational activity
Badinger, Harald (contributor); Egger, Peter (contributor) - 2008
Recent research in international economics highlights the role of interdependencies of investment decisions and sales of multinational firms. Previous work focused on and provided evidence for aggregate flows or stocks of foreign direct investment, showing that interdependence declines in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003720587
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The three parties in the race to the bottom : host governments, home governments and multinational companies
Altshuler, Rosanne (contributor); Grubert, Harry (contributor) - 2005
Most studies of tax competition and the race to the bottom focus on potential host countries competing for mobile capital, neglecting the role of corporate tax planning and of home governments that facilitate this planning. This neglect in part reflects the narrow view frequently taken of the...
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Do US firms pay less tax than their European peers? : on firm characteristics, profit shifting opportunities, and tax legislation as determinants of tax differentials
Overesch, Michael; Schenkelberg, Sabine; Wamser, Georg - 2018 - This version: March 17, 2018
Using pairs of similar US and European firms listed on the S&P500 or StoxxEurope600, we examine effective tax differentials between US multinational corporations (MNCs) and their European peers. We show that statutory tax rates and profit shifting opportunities are important determinants of...
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