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There's no place like home : the profitability gap between headquarters and their foreign subsidiaries
Dischinger, Matthias; Riedel, Nadine - 2009
Using a large data set of European firms, this paper provides evidence that operations at multinational headquarters are significantly more profitable than operations at their foreign subsidiaries. The effect turns out to be robust and quantitatively large. Our findings suggest that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922612
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Anti profit-shifting rules and foreign direct investment
Büttner, Thiess; Overesch, Michael; Wamser, Georg - 2014
This paper explores the effects of tax provisions aimed at restricting multinationals' tax planning on foreign direct investment (FDI). Using a unique dataset which allows us to observe the worldwide activities of a large panel of multinational firms, we test how limitations of interest tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257227
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Debt financing and sharp currency depreciations : wholly vs. partially owned multinational affiliates
Hebous, Shafik; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2009
This paper provides empirical evidence on two potential costs of shared ownership of German affiliates abroad. First, in periods of currency crises, wholly-owned affiliates, in contrast to partially-owned affiliates, seem to circumvent financial constraints by accessing capital from their parent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923516
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Home bank intermediation of foreign direct investment
Poelhekke, Steven - 2011
This paper investigates the benefits of banks' direct investment in foreign subsidiaries and branches for non-financial multinationals. The paper builds on the literature on international banks which has primarily focused on the implications for host countries, rather than for its international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153880
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The impact of thin capitalization rules on the location of multinational firms' foreign affiliates
Merlo, Valeria; Riedel, Nadine; Wamser, Georg - 2015
This paper examines how restrictions on the tax-deductibility of interest cost affect location choices of multinational corporations (MNCs). Many countries have introduced so-called thin-capitalization rules (TCRs) to prevent MNCs from shifting tax base to countries with lower tax rates. As of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300391
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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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Former foreign affiliates : cast out and outperformed?
Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska; Poelhekke, Steven - 2014
The literature has documented a positive effect of foreign ownership on firm performance. But is this effect due to a one-time knowledge transfer or does it rely on continuous injections of knowledge? To shed light on this question we focus on divestments, that is, foreign affiliates that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010461272
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Global sourcing of complex production processes
Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2011
; intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; vertical FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009273125
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Global sourcing and domestic production networks
Furusawa, Taiji; Inui, Tomohiko; Itō, Keiko; Tang, Heiwai - 2017
This paper studies how firms' offshoring decisions shape a country's domestic production networks. We develop a model … foreign suppliers, due to costly communication. Triggered by foreign countries' export supply shocks, firms start offshoring … net effect of offshoring on a firm’s domestic production networks depends on the relative strength of the three effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011721740
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Did Chinese outward activity attenuate or aggravate the Great Recession in developing countries?
Gawellek, Bastian; Lyu, Jingjing; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2016
Using data on Chinese large-scale overseas investment and project contracts by sector, we analyze whether Chinese outward activity (COA) before the crisis worsened or alleviated the contractionary phases in developing countries. We find that, on average, COA did not increase vulnerability to the...
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