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Multinational firms and global innovation

Gumpert, Anna; Manova, Kalina; Rujan, Cristina; … - 2025

This paper provides an integrated analysis of multinational companies’ global production and innovation. We establish … of production, basic innovation and applied innovation, under asymmetric complementarities across these three activities … and quality, and offshore innovation to more countries, including both countries with and without production affiliates …

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Managers as knowledge carriers : explaining Firms' internationalization success with manager mobility

Meinen, Philipp; Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Sala, Davide; … - 2018

How does "what managers know" affect firm performance on international markets? This question is of considerable importance in the international economic literature. Answering it will be key for comprehending the way firms’ varying performance on international markets is shaped by the human...

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Sixty years of global inflation : a post-GFC update

Auer, Raphael A.; Pedemonte, Mathieu; Schoenle, Raphael - 2024

Is inflation (still) a global phenomenon? We study the international co-movement of inflation based on a dynamic factor model and in a sample spanning up to 56 countries during the 1960-2023 period. Over the entire period, a first global factor explains approximately 58% of the variation in...

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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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How is global commerce affecting the gender composition of employment? : a firm-level analysis of the effects of exposure to gender norms via trade and FDI

Heckl, Pia; Lennon, Carolina; Schneebaum, Alyssa - 2025

Global firms have a higher share of female employees than domestic non-exporters. To explain this fact, this paper tests whether international trade and FDI are channels through which norms regarding gender (in)equality are transmitted from customers and investors to firms. We employ pooled...

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The rise of capitalism and the roots of Anti-American terrorism

Krieger, Tim; Meierieks, Daniel - 2014

This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. Using data for 149 countries between 1970 and 2007, this contribution, contrary to expectations from capitalist peace theory, does not find that Anti-American terrorism increases with external economic liberalization...

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The globalization paradox revisited

Schwerhoff, Gregor; Edenhofer, Ottmar - 2014

According to the Globalization Paradox, globalization limits the freedom of choice for national governments. Capital …. Fixed factor taxes have the potential to improve welfare by defusing the globalization trilemma through a reduction in the …

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Globalisation, competitive governments, and constitutional choice in Europe

Breton, Albert; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2002

The traditional school of economic policy analysis predicts that globalisation will give rise to predatory competition between the governments of the European nation states. The consequence is anticipated to be a marked reduction in, if not the destruction of, the benevolent Welfare State. The...

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Human capital investment and globalization in extortionary states

Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - 2002

This paper considers education investment and public education policy in closed and open economies with an extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy chooses an education policy in order to overcome a hold-up problem of time-consistent taxation similar to benevolent...

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Did globalization influence credit market deregulation?

Eppinger, Peter S.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015

We investigate whether globalization influenced credit market deregulation over the period 1970-2010. Globalization is … measured by the KOF indices of globalization. Credit market deregulation is measured by the credit market freedom indicators of … positive correlation between globalization and credit market deregulation. We account for reverse causality by using predicted …

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