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Vertical foreign direct investment : make, sell and (not) buy

Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Sandonís, Joel - 2016

According to conventional wisdom, multinational firms undertake vertical FDI in order to take advantage of cross-border factor cost differences and source the inputs from abroad at better terms. Recent empirical findings though document that this is not always the case. We provide theoretical...

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Asymmetries in global value chain integration, technology and employment structures in Europe : country and sectoral evidence

Bontadini, Filippo; Evangelista, Rinaldo; Meliciani, … - 2021

This paper provides empirical evidence on the complex role played by technology in affecting the relationship between the participation of EU countries and industries in Global Value Chains (GVCs) and their employment structure over the period 2000-2014. The empirical analysis is based on...

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Aligning profit taxation with value creation

Richter, Wolfram F. - 2019

The OECD seeks to align transfer pricing and profit taxation with value creation but fails to provide a clear definition. This paper argues that value creation requires international cooperation and that the profit tax base should therefore be allocated according to standards commonly considered...

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The adoption of non-rival inputs and firm scope

Jiang, Xian; Rubinton, Hannah - 2024

Custom software is distinct from other types of capital in that it is non-rival—once a firm makes an investment in custom software, it can be used simultaneously across its many establishments. Using confidential US Census data, we document that while firms with more establishments are more...

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Firm-productivity and export under non-constant marginal costs

Mukherjee, Arijit - 2016

Recent theoretical research shows that exporters are more productive than nonexporters. We show that this result holds almost trivially for the case of constant marginal cost of production, as mainly assumed in the literature, but it may not hold true if the marginal cost is not constant. Our...

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The real exchange rate in the long run : Balassa-Samuelson effects reconsidered

Bordo, Michael D.; Choudhri, Ehsan U.; Fazio, Giorgio; … - 2014

Historical data for over hundred years and 14 countries is used to estimate the long-run effect of productivity on the … real exchange rate. We find large variations in the productivity effect across four distinct monetary regimes in the sample … argue that changes in trade costs over time may affect the impact of productivity on the real exchange rate over time. We …

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Labor market policies and European crises

Bertola, Giuseppe - 2013

This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in …

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Credit constraints, quality, and export prices : theory and evidence from China

Fan, Haichao; Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Li, Yao Amber - 2013

This paper examines the relationship between the credit constraints faced by a firm and the unit value prices of its exports. The paper modifies Arkolakisś (2010) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality and credit constraints. The model predicts that tighter...

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Can general purpose technology theory explain economic growth? : electrical power as a case study

Ristuccia, Cristiano Andrea; Solomou, Solomos - 2014

Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …

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Productivity response to a contract change

Jayaraman, Rajshri; Ray, Debraj; Véricout, Francis de - 2014

This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract …

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