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Cosar, Kerem - 2015

In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms usually earn their highest market share within their domestic market. The goal of this paper is to disentangle the supply- and demand-driven sources of the home market advantage. While trade costs, foreign production costs, and...

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Global Production with Export Platforms

Tintelnot, Felix - 2016

Most international commerce is carried out by multinational firms, which use their foreign affiliates both to serve the market of the host country and to export to other markets outside the host country. In this paper, I examine the determinants of multinational firms' location and production...

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Chains of Ownership, Regional Tax Competition, and Foreign Direct Investment

Desai, Mihir A.; Foley, C. Fritz; Hines Jr., James R. - 2021

This paper considers the effect of taxation on the location of foreign direct investment (FDI) and taxable income reported by multinational firms with particular attention to the regional dynamics of tax competition and the role of chains of ownership. Confidential affiliate-level data are used...

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European Technology Policy

Eaton, Jonathan; Gutierrez, Eva; Kortum, Samuel S. - 2021

European countries do less research than Japan and the United States. We use a quantitative multi-country growth model to ask: (i) Why is this so? (ii) Would there be any benefit to expanding research in Europe? (iii) What would various European research promotion policies do? We find that (i)...

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How Would EU Corporate Tax Reform Affect Us Investment in Europe?

Devereux, Michael P. - 2011

This paper examines the likely impact of a proposed formula apportionment system for corporation tax in the EU on the inbound investment of US multinational companies. We pay attention to tax planning strategies that may be employed by US multinationals and investigate whether effective tax...

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Vying for Foreign Direct Investment : A Eu-Type Model of Tax Competition

Razin, Assaf - 2006

This paper brings out the special mechanism through which taxes influence bilateral FDI, when investment decisions are two-fold in the presence of fixed setup flows costs. For each pair of source-host countries, there is a set of factors determining whether aggregate FDI flows will occur at all,...

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The Impact of Brexit on Foreign Investment and Production

McGrattan, Ellen - 2017

other E.U. nations. With less E.U. technology deployed in the United Kingdom, U.K. firms increase investment in their own R …

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The Impact of International Patent Systems : Evidence from Accession to the European Patent Convention

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2018

We analyze the impact of accession to the regional patent system established by the European Patent Convention (EPC) on 14 countries that acceded between 2000 and 2008. We look at changes in patenting behavior by domestic and foreign applicants at the national patent offices and the European...

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Foreign Direct Investment in the U.S. And U.S. Trade

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2021

Foreign-owned manufacturing firms' shares of U.S. trade grew from almost nothing in the 1960s to 7 or 8 per cent of trade in manufactured goods by the 1980s. It has changed little in the past decade, except for fluctuations related to changing U.S. exchange rates. Foreign-owned firms are less...

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Skill-Specific Rather then General Education : A Reason for Us-Europe Growth Differences?

Krueger, Dirk; Kumar, Krishna B. - 2021

In this paper, we develop a model of technology adoption and economic growth in which households optimally obtain … between their growth rates will increase with the growth rate of available technology. By characterizing the optimal Ramsey … available technology. Our theory suggests that European education policies that favored specialized, vocational education might …

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