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Thin capitalization rules and multinational firm capital structure

Blouin, Jennifer L.; Huizinga, Harry; Laeven, Luc; … - 2014

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The Location of Domestic and Foreign Production Affiliates by French Multinational Firms

Méjean, Isabelle - 2010

Economists interested in location choices usually focus their attention on investments abroad. This neglects the fact that multinational enterprises continue to invest domestically while undertaking foreign expansion. This paper compares investments at home and abroad. Our firm-level dataset...

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Multinational Affiliates and Local Financial Markets

Sayek, Selin - 2004

We use data on the sources of debt finance of U.S. majority-owned foreign affiliates in 53 countries over the period 1983 to 2001 to examine the role of financial market development, and exposure to host country-specific risk on the financing choices of these affiliates. We find that total...

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Thin Capitalization Rules and Multinational Firm Capital Structure

Blouin, Jennifer - 2014

This paper examines the impact of thin capitalization rules that limit the tax deductibility of interest on the capital structure of the foreign affiliates of US multinationals. We construct a new data set on thin capitalization rules in 54 countries for the period 1982-2004. Using confidential...

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FDI, global value chains, and local sourcing in developing countries

Amendolagine, Vito; Presbitero, Andrea; Rabellotti, Roberta - 2017

The local sourcing of intermediate products is one the main channels for foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers. This paper investigates whether and how participation and positioning in the global value chains (GVCs) of host countries is associated to local sourcing by foreign investors....

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Country Risks and the Investment Activity of U.S. Multinationals in Developing Countries

Lehmann, Alexander - 1999

This paper develops a simple real options model that demonstrates the role of country-specific risk and sunk costs in determining a multinational’s choice between exports and foreign investment. The hypotheses from the model are tested for the distribution of capital expenditures by U.S.-owned...

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Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Investment : The Case of Developing Countries

Al-Sadiq, Ali J. - 2013

Over the past two decades, the growth rate of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from developing and transition economies has increased significantly. Given the role of physical capital accumulation in determining the economic growth rate, it is important to assess how domestic investment...

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Efficiency and Legitimacy : Trade-Offs in IMF Governance

Cottarelli, Carlo - 2005

, because steps to enhance the legitimacy of such an institution through constraints on its decision-making process may affect … its operational efficiency. Potential trade-offs between legitimacy and efficiency exist for any public institution but … the specific ways in which legitimacy is pursued-that is, on the specific constraints that are set. Strategic reforms …

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Export Versus FDI in Services

International Monetary Fund - 2010

In the literature on exports and investment, most productive firms are seen to invest abroad. In the Helpman et al. (2004) model, costs of transportation play a critical role in the decision about whether to serve foreign customers by exporting, or by producing abroad. We consider the case of...

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The role of e-government in promoting Foreign Direct Investment inflows

Al-Sadiq, Ali J. - 2021

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