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Do bilateral tax treaties promote foreign direct investment?

Blonigen, Bruce A.; Davies, Ronald B. - 2005

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Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2012

The literature on the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) and activities of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114291

Separating the Opposing Effects of Bilateral Tax Treaties

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2011

Bilateral tax treaties (BTT) are intended to promote foreign direct investment and foreign affiliate activity through double taxation relief. However, BTTs also typically contain provisions that facilitate sharing of tax information between countries intended to curtail tax avoidance by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119782

Protectionist Threats and Foreign Direct Investment

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2012

The recent literature on quid pro quo foreign direct investment (FDI) suggests that FDI may be induced by the threat of … protection, and further, that FDI may be used as an instrument to defuse a protectionist threat. This paper uses a panel data set … of 4-digit SIC level observations of Japanese manufacturing FDI into the United States in the 1980s to explore these …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104882

Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2014

Empirical studies of bilateral foreign direct investment (FDI) activity show substantial differences in specifications … that allow one to select from a large set of candidates those variables most likely to be determinants of FDI activity. The …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068757

Please Pass the Catch-Up the Relative Performance of Chinese and Foreign Firms in Chinese Exports

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2010

Foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) account for well over half of all Chinese exports and this share continues to grow. While the substantial presence of FIEs has contributed greatly to the recent export-led growth of China, an important objective of the Chinese government is to ultimately...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759861

Evidence for the Effect of Monitoring Costs on Foreign Direct Investment

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2019

A proposed reason for the significant inverse relationship between distance (both physical and cultural) and foreign direct investment is the increased costs for a parent firm to monitor an affiliate when there is greater distance between them. We provide the first direct test of this hypothesis...

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Heterogeneous Frictional Costs Across Industries in Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2016

While there has been significant research to explore the determinants (and frictions) of foreign direct investment (FDI …), past literature primarily focuses on country-wide FDI patterns with little examination of sectoral heterogeneity in FDI …. Anecdotally, there is substantial sectoral heterogeneity in FDI patterns. For example, a substantial share of FDI (around 40 …

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Tariff-Jumping Antidumping Duties

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2021

Using a newly constructed database, this paper examines the tariff-jumping response of all firm and product combinations subject to U.S. AD investigations from 1980-1990. The results strongly support the hypothesis that tariff-jumping is only a realistic option for multinational firms from...

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Tariff-Jumping FDI and Domestic Firms' Profits

Blonigen, Bruce A.; Tomlin, Kasaundra; Wilson, Wesley W. - 2021

Studies of the welfare implications of trade policy often do not take account of the potential for tariff-jumping FDI ….S. domestic firms that petitioned for antidumping (AD) relief, as well as the effect of announcements of FDI by their foreign …% abnormal gains to a petitioning firm when there is no tariff-jumping FDI, but no abnormal gains if there is tariff-jumping FDI …

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