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Quid Pro Quo : Technology Capital Transfers for Market Access in China
Holmes, Thomas - 2014
Despite the recent rapid development and greater openness of China's economy, FDI flows between China and … technologically advanced countries are relatively small in both directions. We assess global capital flows in light of China's quid … model to data. We also find large welfare gains for China--and welfare losses for its FDI partners--from quid pro quo …
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Endogenous Market Structure and Foreign Market Entry
Markusen, James R.; Stähler, Frank - 2021
Models dealing with cross-border acquisitions versus greenfield investment usually assume that the entry of a foreign firm into a market has effects on the outputs of all domestic firms in that market, but exit or entry of local firms is not considered. The purpose of this paper is to re-examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224413
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Foreign Entry into U.S. Manufacturing by Takeovers and the Creation of New Firms
Lipsey, Robert E.; Feliciano, Zadia - 2021
Using U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis data for individual foreign acquisitions and new establishments in the U.S from 1988 to 1998, and aggregate data for 1980 to 1998, we find that acquisitions and establishments of new firms tend to occur in periods of high U.S. growth and take place mainly...
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Export Versus FDI
Helpman, Elhanan; Melitz, Marc J.; Yeaple, Stephen R. - 2021
This paper builds a multi-country, multi-sector general equilibrium model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to serve foreign markets either through exports or local subsidiary sales (FDI). These modes of market access involve different relative costs, some of which are sunk while...
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Heterogeneity and the FDI Versus Export Decision of Japanese Manufacturers
Head, Keith; Ries, John C. - 2021
We investigate whether productivity differences explain why some manufacturers sell only to the domestic market while others serve foreign markets through exports and/or FDI. When overseas production offers no cost advantages, our model predicts that investors should be more productive than...
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Brand Management and Strategies Against Counterfeits
Qian, Yi - 2014
In this paper I provide a theory for brand-protection strategies to reduce counterfeiting under weak intellectual property rights. My theoretical framework has general implications for endogenous sunk cost investments as a means of deterring counterfeiters. My model incorporates two layers of...
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China's Industrial Policy : An Empirical Evaluation
Barwick, Panle Jia; Kalouptsidi, Myrto; Zahur, Nahim - 2022
evaluate its welfare consequences. This paper examines an important industrial policy in China in the 2000s, aiming to propel … model of firm entry, exit, investment, and production, we find that the scale of the policy was massive and boosted China …
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The Use of Tax Havens in Exemption Regimes
Gumpert, Anna - 2011
reallocating taxable income dampen these incentives. The behavior of German manufacturing firms from 2002-2008 is consistent with … to be unrelated to tax haven investments of German firms in service industries, possibly reflecting the difficulty they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117565
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Global Production with Export Platforms
Tintelnot, Felix - 2016
using German firm-level data to uncover the size and nature of costs of multinational enterprise and show that the fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992631
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Internationalized Production in World Output
Lipsey, Robert E.; Blomstrom, Magnus; Ramstetter, Eric D. - 2021
Internationalized production, that is, production by multinational firms outside their home countries has increased over the last two decades, but it was still, in 1990, only about 7 percent of world output. The share was higher, at 15 percent in 'industry,' including manufacturing, trade,...
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