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Globalised labour markets? : international rent sharing across 47 countries

Martins, Pedro S.; Yang, Yong - 2010

We present evidence about the role of rent sharing in fostering the interdependence of labour markets around the world. Our results draw on a firm-level panel of more than 2,000 multinationals and more than 5,000 of their affiliates, covering 47 home and host countries. We find considerable...

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Drivers and impacts in the globalization of corporate R&D : an introduction based on the European experience

Moncada Paternò Castello, Pietro; Vivarelli, Marco; … - 2011

The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture …-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts to pursue a deeper understanding of the globalization of corporate R&D and the … related driving factors and impacts. This introduction to the Special Section: "Globalization and Corporate R&D" forthcoming …

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Does easy start-up formation hamper incumbents' R&D investment? : a theoretical and empirical analysis

Colombo, Luca; Dawid, Herbert; Piva, Mariacristina; … - 2013

This paper investigates, both theoretically and empirically, the implications that complementary assets needed for the formation of start-ups - proxied by the ease of access to financial resources - have on the innovative efforts of incumbent firms. In particular, we develop a theoretical model,...

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The radical innovation investment decision refined

Bilkic, Natasa; Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2013

We refine modelling of the radical innovation decision in this paper by extending real option theory to include non-marginal stochastic jump processes. From the model analytics we determine that the average magnitude and frequency of non-marginal stochastic jump processes are the most important...

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Corruption, networking and foreign ownership : recent evidence from CEE countries

Pal, Sarmistha - 2013

The present paper argues that the effect of corruption on foreign ownership is not necessarily linear and depends on the level of host corruption. So long as the expected returns from foreign investments exceed its expected costs, higher host corruption will be associated with higher foreign...

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Wages and international rent sharing in multinational firms

Budd, John W.; Konings, Jozef; Slaughter, Matthew J. - 2002

We use a unique firm-level panel data set of multinational parents and their foreign affiliates to analyze whether profits are shared across borders within multinational firms. Using both fixed-effects and generalized method-of-moments estimators, affiliate wage levels are estimated to respond...

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Catalyzing gender equality : foreign MNC subsidiaries as agents of change in mitigating wage discrimination against women

Kaiser, Ulrich; Grimpe, Christoph; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2023

Wage discrimination against women remains a major obstacle to fair economic opportunities for women and a grand challenge constraining economic growth in many countries. Existing research is ambivalent about whether foreign MNC subsidiaries as employers of women offer a solution to this grand...

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Foreign acquisitions, domestic multinationals, and R&D

Bandick, Roger; Görg, Holger; Karpaty, Patrik - 2010

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the causal effect of foreign acquisition on R&D intensity in targeted domestic firms. We are able to distinguish domestic multinationals and nonmultinationals, which allows us to investigate the fear that the change in ownership of domestic to foreign...

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Globalization and strategic research investments

Bohnstedt, Anna; Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2010

We develop a general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms, where countries can invest into basic research to improve their technological potential. These research investments tighten firm selection and raise the average productivity of firms in the market, thereby...

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Do foreign owners favor short-term profit? : evidence from Germany

Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephen C. - 2014

foreign countries; rather, results point in the direction of more general features of corporate globalization. …

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