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Does corporate taxation deter multinationals? : evidence from a historic event in Ireland
Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2014
We use a unique exogenous corporate tax policy change in the Republic of Ireland to investigate how corporate taxation … increase in corporate tax rates for exporters did affect the entry or exit of plants from the US or UK in Ireland. Entry rates … Ireland reduce the size of their operations in response to the tax change. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406858
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The role of production technology for productivity spillovers from multinationals : firm-level evidence for Hungary
Görg, Holger (contributor); Hijzen, Alexander (contributor) - 2009
administrative panel data on firms for Hungary. We hypothesise that the potential for spillovers is related to observable … foreign affiliates. Firms that relocate labour-intensive activities to Hungary to exploit differences in labour costs are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003800469
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Openness, intermediate imports and growth
Kopp, Andreas - 2000
We consider two channels via which foreign inputs into industrial production may lead to productivity effects. The first one concerns dynamic externalities between firms which share technical and organizational knowledge which is vital for the productivity growth of a particular industry. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472478
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Foreign ownership and the extensive margins of exports : evidence for manufacturing enterprises in Germany
Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2013
We examine how foreign ownership of a firm affects the variety of goods that the firm exports and the number of countries it trades with. We construct a simple theoretical model of how foreign ownership may affect these extensive margins of exports and take this model to data from Germany, one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009762493
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Estimating direct and indirect effects of foreign direct investment on firm productivity in the presence of interactions between firms
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; … - 2014
We implement a method to estimate the direct effects of foreign-ownership on foreign firms' productivity and the indirect effects (or spillovers) from the presence of foreign-owned firms on other foreign and domestic firms' productivity in a unifying framework, taking interactions between firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406836
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The influence of capital market integration on production and market structures
Koop, Michael J. - 2001
The paper analyzes the effects of increasing capital market integration on production and market structures, trade and capital flows as well as national and global welfare. In order to facilitate the analysis of the integration process, three stages of capital market integration are defined....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011474172
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The role of multinational enterprises in globalization : an empirical overview
Kleinert, Jörn - 2001
The activities of multinational enterprises drive the economic globalization process to a very large degree. This paper lists some facts about their dominant role in all channels of globalization. Therefore, the importance of multinational enterprises in foreign direct investment and production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476361
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The heterogeneity of FDI in Sub-Saharan Africa : how do the horizontal productivity effects of emerging investors differ from those of traditional players?
Pfeiffer, Birte; Görg, Holger; Pérez-Villar, Lucia - 2015
This paper analyzes the horizontal productivity effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) from industrialized and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010461743
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Foreign ownership and the export and import propensities of developing-country firms
Boddin, Dominik; Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2015
This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership affects the likelihood of manufacturers in developing countries to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for differences across firms in terms of labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496200
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What is a foreign firm? : implications for productivity spillovers
MacGaughey, Sara L.; Raimondos-Møller, Pascalis; … - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011934032