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The allocation of emissions allowances is among the most contentious elements of the design of cap-and-trade systems. In this paper we develop a detailed representation of the US western electricity market to assess the potential impacts of various allocation proposals. Several proposals involve...
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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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Empirical studies quantifying the economic effects of increased foreign direct investment (FDI) have not provided … consistent with theory if countries are in transition to FDI openness. Anticipated welfare gains lead to temporary declines in … domestic investment and employment. Also, growth measures miss some intangible FDI, which is expensed from company profits. The …
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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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attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms. Finally, we construct a panel dataset that allows us to track firms …
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Using a sample of control cross-border acquisitions from 61 countries from 1990 to 2007, we find that acquirers from countries with better governance gain more from such acquisitions and their gains are higher when targets are from countries with worse governance. Other acquirer country...
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The paper tests three hypotheses concerning foreign equity investment in the presence of liquidity risk. First, the FDI … participants do not know whether the FDI investor liquidates a firm because of an idiosyncratic liquidity shock, or because, as an … informed investor, the firm is hit by a productivity shock. Second, the FDI-to-FPI composition of foreign equity investment …
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There has been a significant correlation between United States inward foreign direct investment and the United States real exchange rate since the 1970s. Two alternative reasons for this relationship are that the real exchange rate affects the relative cost of labor and that the real exchange...
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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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Following its opening to trade and foreign investment in the mid-1980s, Mexico's economic growth has been modest at best, particularly in comparison with that of China. Comparing these countries and reviewing the literature, we conclude that the relation between openness and growth is not a...
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