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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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Canadian Firm and Job Dynamics
Balakrishnan, Ravi - 2008
To understand better Canada''s smooth reallocation of labor in response to the recent commodity price boom, but … seemingly poor productivity performance, this paper examines job and firm dynamics in Canada relative to the United States …. Overall, it finds that while Canada''s labor market efficiency seems comparable to that of the United States, product market …
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Being a Foreigner Among Domestic Banks : Asset or Liability?
Horen, Neeltje van - 2009
Studying a large number of banks in various countries between 1999 and 2006, we document that foreign banks perform better when from a high income country, when host country competition is limited, and when they are large and rely more on deposits for funding. Foreign banks'' performance...
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Determinants and effects of countries' external capital structure : a firm-level analysis
Herman, Uroš; Krahnke, Tobias - 2022
In this paper, we investigate whether a firm's composition of foreign liabilities matters for their resilience during economic turmoil and examine which characteristics determine a firm's foreign capital structure. Using firm-level data, we corroborate previous findings from the (international)...
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International taxation and Luxembourg's economy
Mooij, Ruud A. de; Prihardini, Dinar; Pflugbeil, Antje; … - 2020
Luxembourg receives ample investment from multinational corporations, in part due to some attractive features in its international tax rules. Around 95 percent of these foreign investments pass through Luxembourg via companies performing holding and/or intra-group financing activities. While...
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Global firms, national corporate taxes : an evolution of incompatibility
Hebous, Shafik - 2020
How did the rise of multinational enterprises (MNEs) put pressure on the prevailing international corporate tax framework? MNEs, and firms with market power, are not new phenomena, nor is the corporate income tax, which dates to the early 20th century. This prompts the question, what is...
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Do FDI firms employ more workers than domestic firms for each dollar of assets?
Ando, Sakai; Wang, Mengxue - 2020
This paper studies whether FDI firms employ more workers than domestic firms for each dollar of assets. Using the Orbis database and its ownership structure information, we show that, in most economies, domestic firms tend to employ more workers per asset than FDI firms. The result remains...
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At a cost : the real effects of transfer pricing regulations
Mooij, Ruud A. de; Liu, Li - 2018
Unilateral adoption of transfer pricing regulations may have a negative impact on real investment by multinational corporations (MNCs). This paper uses a quasi-experimental research design, exploiting unique panel data on domestic and multinational companies in 27 countries during 2006-2014, to...
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112331
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Network determinants of cross-border merger and acquisition decisions
Didier, Tatiana; Herrador, Sebastián; Pinat, Magali - 2019
This paper assesses whether cross-border M and A decisions exhibit network effects. We estimate exponential random graph models (ERGM) and temporal exponential random graph models (TERGM) to evaluate the determinants of cross-country M and A investments at the sectoral level. The results show...
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