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Host-Country Financial Development and Multinational Activity
Bilir, Kamran - 2014
with host-country financial development affecting multinationals' incentives for horizontal, vertical and platform FDI …
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Firm Exports and Multinational Activity Under Credit Constraints
Manova, Kalina - 2011
FDI. Our findings are consistent with multinational subsidiaries being less liquidity constrained because they can tap … additional funding from their parent company and/or access foreign capital markets. More broadly, they suggest that FDI can …
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FDI Spillovers and Industrial Policy : The Role of Tariffs and Tax Holidays
Du, Luosha - 2011
magnitude and direction of FDI spillovers. We examine these spillover effects across the diverse ownership structure of China …-level productivity and industry FDI, thereby limiting the problem of omitted variables and bias associated with estimating the impacts of … FDI spillovers. During 1998-2007, the span of our Chinese firm-level data set, both tariffs and FDI tax holidays changed …
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Credit and Deferral as International Investment Incentives
Hines Jr., James R. - 2010
The US government taxes the foreign income of American firms, using a system that grants credits for foreign taxes paid and permits tax deferral for unrepatriated income. This paper shows that the tax system encourages firms to restrict their equity stakes in new foreign investments, and to...
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Innovation and Foreign Ownership
Guadalupe, Maria - 2010
This paper uses a rich panel dataset of Spanish manufacturing firms (1990-2006) and a propensity score reweighting estimator to show that multinational firms acquire the most productive domestic firms, which, on acquisition, conduct more product and process innovation (simultaneously adopting...
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From Beijing to Bentonville : Do Multinational Retailers Link Markets?
Head, Keith - 2010
Each of the world's largest retailers---Walmart, Carrefour, Tesco, and Metro---entered China after 1995. Their subsequent expansion in China may have influenced Chinese exports through two channels. First, they may have enhanced bilateral exports between the retailers' Chinese operations and...
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Foreign Firms and Local Communities
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2012
The literature on the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) and activities of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114291
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The Use of Tax Havens in Exemption Regimes
Gumpert, Anna - 2011
This paper analyzes the tax haven investment behavior of multinational firms from a country that exempts foreign income from taxation. High foreign tax rates generally encourage firms to invest in tax havens, though significant costs of reallocating taxable income dampen these incentives. The...
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Separating the Opposing Effects of Bilateral Tax Treaties
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2011
Bilateral tax treaties (BTT) are intended to promote foreign direct investment and foreign affiliate activity through double taxation relief. However, BTTs also typically contain provisions that facilitate sharing of tax information between countries intended to curtail tax avoidance by...
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Surviving the Global Financial Crisis : Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance
Alfaro, Laura - 2011
We examine the differential response of establishments to the recent global financial crisis with particular emphasis on the role of foreign ownership. Using a worldwide establishment panel dataset, we investigate how multinational subsidiaries around the world responded to the crisis relative...
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