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The role of country-of-origin characteristics for foreign direct investment and technical cooperation in post-reform India
Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Vadlamannati, Krishna … - 2011
The decisions of foreign investors on technical cooperation versus equity engagements and on the degree of ownership in FDI projects are likely to depend on their relative bargaining position vis-à-vis the host country. India provides an interesting case for analyzing the interplay between...
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Siemens: a multinational's strategy to investment in the Central-East European transformation countries
Sander, Birgit - 1995
The Central East European economies are competing for international investment capital, especially for FDI in order to support transformation. The paper explores how the Siemens AG, one of the world's largest MNCs, allocates investments towards and within Central East Europe and how they fit...
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FDI by early movers, followers and latecomers: timing of entry by German firms during transition in the Czech Republic
Mühlen, Henning; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2009
importance of firm-level productivity and distance-related transaction costs as driving forces of FDI. Yet the timing of FDI has … uncertainty. Likewise, distance-related transaction costs discourage FDI by latecomers considerably less than FDI by early movers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265834
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Multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa: Domestic linkages and institutional distance
Pérez-Villar, Lucia; Seric, Adnan - 2014
This paper analyzes the role of institutional distance in the establishment of domestic linkages by multinational … by UNIDO we find that institutional distance in terms of contract enforcement deters the domestic linkage in host … countries with worse institutions relative to the origin country. Additionally, institutional distance matters more for …
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Multinational firms and heterogeneous labor
Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2008
In the presence of increasing specialization of workers it becomes more and more difficult for firms to find the most suitable workers. In such an environment a multinational corporation has an advantage because it can exchange workers between plants in different countries. In this way it can...
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Headquarter services, skill intensity and labour demand elasticities in multinational firms
Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - 2009
Using information on a panel of multinational firms operating in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005, we find that labour demand in domestic multinationals is less sensitive to own labour costs changes than in foreign multinationals. This difference in wage elasticity of labour demand persists...
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Tax rate and tax base competition for foreign direct investment
Egger, Peter; Raff, Horst - 2011
This paper argues that the large reduction in corporate tax rates and only gradual widening of tax bases in many countries over the last decades are consistent with tougher international competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). To make this point we develop a model in which governments...
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Multinational Firms, Exclusivity, and the Degree of Backward Linkages
Lin, Ping; Saggi, Kamal - 2004
This paper develops a two-tier oligopoly model in which the entry of a multinational firm results in technology transfer to its local suppliers and also impacts the degree of backward linkages in the local industry. The model endogenizes the multinational's choice between anonymous market...
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Modes of international sourcing and the competitiveness of firms: an analysis of European survey data
Neureiter, Marcus; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2009
We draw on a recent survey of European companies to differentiate between alternative modes of international outsourcing as possible determinants of market, cost and knowledge-related aspects of the competitiveness of firms. We find that internalized modes are often superior to outside options,...
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Overseas links as export conduits
Hanley, Aoife - 2009
This paper investigates the relationship between exports and overseas links using data from the UK Community Innovation Survey. Overseas vertical and horizontal links are associated with an average increase in export intensity of 74 and 156 percent for vertical and horizontal overseas links...
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