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R&D grant and tax credit support for foreign-owned subsidiaries : does it pay off?
Lenihan, Helena; Mulligan, Kevin; Doran, Justin; … - 2022
Foreign-owned subsidiaries make significant contributions to national Research and Development (R&D) in many host countries. Policymakers often support subsidiaries through R&D grants and R&D tax credits. A key objective of this funding is to leverage R&D-driven firm performance benefits for the...
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Trade in services and innovation
Krieger, Bastian; Trottner, Fabian - 2024
We study the implications of services trade for firm innovation. Using a quasi-experimental shift-share design, we find …’ innovation efficiency by mitigating decreasing economies of scale in in-house innovation efforts. As a result, firms become more … likely to outsource innovation efforts as they become more innovative, whereas the prevalence of offshoring depends on its …
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Inefficient labor market sorting
Eckel, Carsten; Yeaple, Stephen R. - 2023
the incomplete adoption of these "structured management practices" and their welfare implications are not well understood …, have the potential to lower welfare. …
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The impact of price frames on consumer decision making : experimental evidence
Baake, Pio; Huck, Steffen - 2013
We analyse a stylized model of the world grain market characterized by a small oligopoly of traders with market power on both the supply and demand side. Crops are stochastic and exporting countries can impose export tariffs to protect domestic food prices. Our first result is that export...
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Return of the tariffs : the interwar trade collapse revisited
Adam, Marc Christopher - 2019
Was the collapse of world trade between 1928 and 1937 caused by higher transport costs, increased protectionism or the collapse of the gold standard? Using recent advances in the estimation of gravity equations, I examine the partial and general equilibrium effects of bilateral distance,...
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Demand and supply side linkages in exporting multiproduct firms
Eckel, Carsten; Flach, Lisandra; Meng, Ning - 2023
Products produced by a multiproduct firm can be linked through demand linkages or supply linkages. On the demand side, changes in the price of one product can affect the demand for a firm's other products through shifts in consumer expenditures. This is commonly referred to as the...
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The organization of knowledge in multinational firms
Gumpert, Anna - 2015
This paper provides the first in-depth study of the organization of knowledge in multinational firms. The paper develops a theoretical model that studies how firms optimally split knowledge between their headquarters and their production plants if communication costs impede the access of...
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Banking across borders
Niepmann, Friederike - 2013
Banking across borders has risen substantially over the past two decades. Yet there is significant heterogeneity in the international and global activities of banks across countries. This paper develops and tests a theoretical model that explains this variation from an international trade theory...
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The organization of knowledge in multinational firms
Gumpert, Anna - 2017
This paper provides the first in-depth study of the organization of knowledge in multinational firms. In the theory, knowledge is a costly input for firms that they can acquire at their headquarters or their production plants. Communication costs impede the access of the plants to headquarter...
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The tax attractiveness of EU locations for corporate investments : a stocktaking of past developments and recent reforms
Gundert, Hannah; Nicolay, Katharina; Steinbrenner, Daniela - 2023
Tax incentives are a key component of governments’ investment policy mix as they directly impact companies’ tax burden. In this paper, we illustrate the EU’s tax attractiveness as investment location over time in terms of effective average tax rates and evaluate potential tax reform...
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