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Learning Technological Capability for Vietnam's Industrial Upgrading: Challenges of the Globalization.

Ca, Tran Ngoc - The European Institute of Japanese Studies, … - 2002

The paper discusses technological capabilities in Vietnamese industry considering mainly the role of foreign companies. The support of technological change is limited by specific disadvantages of Vietnamese environment, mainly insufficient organizational and legal shortcomings. Thus the...

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TO MERGE AND ACQUIRE WHEN THE TIMES ARE GOOD? THE INFLUENCE OF MACRO FACTORS ON THE JAPANESE M&A PATTERN

Nakamura, Richard - The European Institute of Japanese Studies, … - 2004

After the burst of the "bubble" economy and the subsequent recession of the 1990's, a new era of M&A started in Japan. Following the deregulation in a number of non-tradable sectors, a relatively large number of foreign firms have entered the Japanese market, using M&As as a tool for market...

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The Single European Market, Swedish Investment Liberalisation, and Horizontal and Vertical Multinationals.

Mathä, Thomas - The European Institute of Japanese Studies, … - 2002

This paper analyses the effects of the Single European Market and Swedish Investment liberalisation on the structure of Swedish multinationals with their EU affiliates. The empirical results suggest that the determinants associated with horizontal and vertical multinationals have become...

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IS THERE REALLY A FOREIGN OWNERSHIP WAGE PREMIUM?EVIDENCE FROM MATCHED EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE DATA.

Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Gustavsson … - The European Institute of Japanese Studies, … - 2004

Numerous studies based on firm-level data have reported higher average wages in foreign-owned firms than in domestically-owned firms. This, however, does not necessarily imply that the individual worker’s wage increase with foreign ownership. Using detailed matched employer-employee data, we...

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International Experience and the Performance of Scandinavian Firms in China

Carlsson, Johan; Nordegren, Axel; Sjöholm, Fredrik - The European Institute of Japanese Studies, … - 2004

Western firms locating in China face a business environment that differs from their home country environment. The differences increase uncertainties and are negative for economic performance. However, firms may differ in their ability to overcome the difficulties, depending on their previous...

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IS THERE REALLY A FOREIGN OWNERSHIP WAGE PREMIUM? EVIDENCE FROM MATCHED EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE DATA

Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Gustavsson … - The European Institute of Japanese Studies, … - 2006

Numerous studies on firm-level data have reported higher average wages in foreign-owned firms than in domestically-owned firms. This, however, does not necessarily imply that the individual worker’s wage increase with foreign ownership. Using detailed matched employer-employee data on the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419299

HOST COUNTRY IMPACTS OF INWARD FDI: WHY SUCH DIFFERENT ANSWERS?

Lipsey, Robert; Sjöholm, Fredrik - The European Institute of Japanese Studies, … - 2004

A substantial literature has grown up around the issue of how inward direct investment affects host countries. On almost every aspect of this question, there seems to be a wide range of empirical results in academic literature, and little sign of convergence. It is our purpose here to try to...

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Foreign Firms and Indonesian Manufacturing Wages: An Analysis with Panel Data

Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik - The European Institute of Japanese Studies, … - 2002

Wages in domestically- owned Indonesian manufacturing plants taken over by foreign firms increased sharply between the year before takeover and two years after takeover, relative to plants remaining in domestic ownership. Blue- collar wage levels in these plants had been less than 10 per cent...

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INNOVATIVE CAPABILITY IN MNC SUBSIDIARIES: EVIDENCE FROM FOUR EUROPEAN TRANSITION ECONOMIES

Kokko, Ari; Kravtsova, Victoria - The European Institute of Japanese Studies, … - 2006

be expected to have some impact on the kinds of spillovers different kinds of foreign direct investment (FDI) projects …

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THE HOME COUNTRY EFFECTS OF FDI IN DEVELOPED ECONOMIES

Kokko, Ari - The European Institute of Japanese Studies, … - 2006

knowledge, and political decision-making in the home country. The main conclusion is that outward FDI is beneficial to the … effects (particularly on the balance-of-payments) has at times motivated restrictions on FDI. The final part of the paper … which may, at least in theory, provide an alternative to inward FDI as a source of technology for the more advanced …

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