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Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protect firms from imitation and are considered crucial to promote innovation and technological diffusion. This paper examines the impact of IPR on import sourcing decisions of multinationals. We consider a framework in which firms offshore production of an...
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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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upgrading in foreign-acquired firms. We reveal substantial productivity gains within foreign-acquired firms and we show that …
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This paper assesses sources of productivity spillovers in China's electric and electronic manufacturing industry using … important reliance on technology. In particular, the paper focuses on the role of other firms' productivity as well as … productivity shifters in affecting own firm-level total factor productivity. In addition, this paper examines the possible …
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This paper studies international joint ventures, where foreign direct investment is performed by a foreign and a domestic firm that together set up a new firm, the joint venture. Employing administrative data on all international joint ventures in China from 1998 to 2007 - roughly a quarter of...
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This paper considers the effect of acquisition FDI on the knowledge production function. We distinguish between acquisitions by MNEs from technologically leading countries and those behind the technological frontier. We show that both acquire similarly R&D intensive domestic firms, but there are...
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productivity, gender biases, and learning, we perform counterfactual exercises. Hypothetically eliminating firms' gender biases … raises China's aggregate total factor productivity by 5%, of which spillovers from multinationals account for 19%. …
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When searching for productivity spillovers from foreign firms, a firm is typically classified as foreign using a low … find no horizontal productivity effects using the low threshold direct ownership definition, we find positive and …
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This paper studies how corporate tax hikes transmit across countries through multinationals' internal networks of subsidiaries. We build a parsimonious multicountry model to underscore two opposing spillover effects: While tax competition between countries generates positive investment...
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