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Suppliers of multinationals and the forced linkage effect: Evidence from firm level data

Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger - 2013

Using information on more than 1000 firms in a number of emerging countries, we find quantitative evidence that suppliers of multinationals that are pressured by their customers to reduce production costs or develop new products have higher productivity growth than other firms, including other...

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Availability of business services and outward investment: Evidence from French firms

Görg, Holger; Jabbour, Liza - 2015

This paper considers the link between the local availability of services and a firm's decision to become a multinational. This is a highly topical issue, given that many industrialised countries are increasingly becoming services economies and firms become increasingly more globalised. In an...

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Bilateral investment treaties do work: Until they don't

Aisbett, Emma; Busse, Matthias; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2016

The recent boom of investor-state disputes filed under international investment agreements has fueled a controversial … flows, compensation claims and bilateral investment treaty (BIT) participation. We allow for differential impacts of … allows us both to shed new light on how investment treaties might influence investor behavior, as well as allowing us to …

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Multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa: Domestic linkages and institutional distance

Pérez-Villar, Lucia; Seric, Adnan - 2014

clearer targets for foreign investment policies. …

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Vertical integration and supplier finance

Kersting, Erasmus; Görg, Holger - 2014

We investigate the financial implications of a multinational firm's choice between outsourcing and integration from the perspective of the supplier. Using a simple model, we explore the extent to which an integrated supplier's access to finance, as well as its sources of funding, change relative...

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Foreign direct investment, spillovers and absorptive capacity: Evidence from quantile regressions

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2005

This paper focuses on the role of absorptive capacity in determining whether or not domestic firms benefit from productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments located at different quantiles of the productivity...

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Greenfield FDI, cross-border M&As and government size

Ashraf, Ayesha; Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2016

This study examines the effects of greenfield FDI and cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on government size in host countries of FDI. Using panel data for up to 130 countries for the period from 2003-2011, the study specifically tests the compensation hypothesis, suggesting that by...

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Is foreign aid concentrated increasingly on needy and deserving recipient countries? An analysis of Theil indices, 1995-2015

Bickenbach, Frank; Mbelu, Asithandile; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2017

By tracking the changes in different margins of Theil indices during the period 1995-2015, we re-consider the question of whether bilateral and multilateral donors have targeted aid increasingly to particularly needy recipient countries with relatively good governance in order to improve the...

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South-South FDI: Is it really different?

Görg, Holger; Gold, Robert; Hanley, Aoife; Seric, Adnan - 2017

We compare the performance of Northern and Southern multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa, and contrast it with local firms in the host country. Employing unique firm level data for 19 Sub-Saharan African countries, we show that firms receiving FDI outperform domestic ones, while the origin of...

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Foreign direct investment & corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa: An empirical analysis at the local level

Donaubauer, Julian; Kannen, Peter; Steglich, Frauke - 2018

Geocoding firm-level data and matching them to georeferenced household survey data, we are the first to analyze whether the presence of foreign investors is associated with changes in local corruption around foreign-owned production facilities in Sub-Saharan African countries. Applying an...

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