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Internationalized Production in World Output
Lipsey, Robert E.; Blomstrom, Magnus; Ramstetter, Eric D. - 2021
,' which are about 60 percent of world output. Given all the attention that 'globalization' has received from scholars … over the last two decades, but it was still, in 1990, only about 7 percent of world output. The share was higher, at 15 …
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The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms
Alfaro, Laura - 2010
The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly transforming the global landscape of industrial production. But are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What drives the offshore agglomeration of multinational firms in comparison to...
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Globalized Israel : High Tech Prowess and Buttressing FDI
Razin, Assaf - 2017
The paper reviews the crucial role which globalization forces played in Israel's transformation from low tech to high …
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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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The Internationalization of Production
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2021
The degree of internationalizaton of the enterprise or business sectors of many countries, as measured by the ratio of direct investment abroad to domestic wealth or assets, or of assets or employment abroad to that at home, has been growing over the last twenty years or more. The exception to...
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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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Surviving the Global Financial Crisis : Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance
Alfaro, Laura - 2011
subsidiaries around the world responded to the crisis relative to local establishments. We find that, first, multinational …
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Quantifying Productivity Gains from Foreign Investment
Fons-Rosen, Christian - 2013
We revisit the relationship between foreign investment and productivity of acquired firms. First, we construct a panel firm-level dataset for eight advanced European countries covering domestic and foreign acquisitions together with detailed balance sheet information for the years 1999{2012....
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Redrawing the Map of Global Capital Flows : The Role of Cross-Border Financing and Tax Havens
Coppola, Antonio - 2020
restate bilateral investment positions to better reflect the true financial linkages connecting countries around the world. We … nearly 600 billion dollars, while China's official net creditor position to the rest of the world is overstated by about 50 … composition of external portfolio liabilities, the nature of foreign direct investment, and the growth of financial globalization …
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Balance Sheets, Multinational Financial Policy, and the Cost of Capital at Home and Abroad
Altshuler, Rosanne - 2006
We use data from the balance sheets of controlled foreign corporations,(CFCs) to study the real and financial behavior of U.S. multinational corporations. Previous literature on repatriations has mostly been restricted to the choice between dividend distributions to the parent and further real...
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