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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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Firm-Specific Resources, Financial-Market Development and the Growth of U.S. Multinationals

Feinberg, Susan - 2002

We study the resource allocation decisions of U.S. multinational corporations (MNCs). We examine how established MNCs grow across countries and how firm-specific resources and host country financial-market development influence MNC growth. We find evidence of intra-firm trade-offs to growth in...

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The it Revolution and the Globalization of R&D

Branstetter, Lee - 2018

markets. One of the distinguishing features of the R&D globalization phenomenon is its concentration within the software … three important phenomena: (1) the globalization of R&D, (2) the growing importance of software and IT to firm innovation … large quantities of STEM workers who possessed IT and software skills. Our findings support the view that the globalization …

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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...

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Optimal Integration Strategies for the Multinational Firm

Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan; Szeidl, Adam - 2022

We examine integration strategies of multinational firms that face a rich array of choices of international organization. Each firm in an industry must provide headquarter services from its home country, produce intermediate inputs, and assemble the intermediate goods into final products. Both...

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Estimating the Knowledge-Capital Model of the Multinational Enterprise : Comment

Blonigen, Bruce A.; Davies, Ronald B.; Head, Keith - 2022

A recent American Economic Review article by David L. Carr, James R. Markusen, and Keith E. Maskus (CMM) estimates a regression specification based upon the 'knowledge-capital' model of the Multinational Enterprise (MNE). The knowledge-capital model combines 'horizontal' motivations for FDI --...

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Scale, Scope, and the International Expansion Strategies of Multiproduct Firms

Yeaple, Stephen R. - 2013

A growing literature seeks to understand how the characteristics of firms shape the manner in which they serve foreign markets. We consider an environment in which multiproduct firms can sell their products in multiple countries from multiple locations. We show that there are strong empirical...

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The Effect of Taxes on Royalties and the Migration of Intangible Assets Abroad

Mutti, John - 2010

Migration of intangible assets from the United States to foreign countries has become easier due to the ability of U.S. firms to create hybrid entities in their affiliates abroad and to reach favorable cost sharing agreements with them. This strategy was particularly encouraged by the U.S....

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The Impact of Headquarter and Subsidiary Locations on Multinationals' Effective Tax Rates

Markle, Kevin - 2013

We examine effective tax rates (ETRs) for 9,022 multinationals from 87 countries from 2006 to 2011. We find that, despite extensive investments in international tax avoidance, multinationals headquartered in Japan, the U.S., and some high-tax European countries continue to face substantially...

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Taxation of Foreign-Owned Land

Brander, James A. - 2007

This paper examines the welfare effects of a tax on foreign purchases of domestic land. Using a simple static framework the paper shows that an appropriately chosen tax will generally be welfare-improving for the domestic country

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