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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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The it Revolution and the Globalization of R&D
Branstetter, Lee - 2018
three important phenomena: (1) the globalization of R&D, (2) the growing importance of software and IT to firm innovation … markets. One of the distinguishing features of the R&D globalization phenomenon is its concentration within the software … IT- and software-biased shift in innovation drove US MNCs abroad, and particularly drove them abroad to “new hubs” with …
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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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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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Exporting Pollution : Where Do Multinational Firms Emit Co<Sub>2</Sub>?
Ben-David, Itzhak - 2018
Despite widespread awareness of the detrimental impact of CO<sub>2</sub> pollution on the world climate, countries vary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909911
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Chains of Ownership, Regional Tax Competition, and Foreign Direct Investment
Desai, Mihir A.; Foley, C. Fritz; Hines Jr., James R. - 2021
This paper considers the effect of taxation on the location of foreign direct investment (FDI) and taxable income reported by multinational firms with particular attention to the regional dynamics of tax competition and the role of chains of ownership. Confidential affiliate-level data are used...
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No Place Like Home : Tax Incentives and the Location of R&D by American Multinationals
Hines Jr., James R. - 2022
This paper analyzes the effects of the U.S. tax treatment of the R&D activities of American multinationals. Recent evidence indicates that the level of R&D spending is highly sensitive to its after-tax cost. The U.S. Tax Reform Act of 1986 reduced the tax deductions that many American firms can...
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Characteristics of U.S. Manufacturing Companies Investing Abroad and Their Choice of Production Locations
Lipsey, Robert E.; Kravis, Irving B.; O'Connor, Linda - 2022
The purpose of this paper is to examine the relations among characteristics of U.S. firms, their tendency to invest abroad, and their choice of production locations. The larger the firm, and the higher its profitability, capital intensity, technological Intensity, and the skill level ofits labor...
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International R&D Deployment and Locational Advantage : A Case Study of Taiwan
Liu, Meng-Chun; Chen, Shin-Horng - 2021
the literature on R&D internationalization and globalization, based upon which we emphasize the significance of first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233228
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Do Bilateral Tax Treaties Promote Foreign Direct Investment?
Blonigen, Bruce A.; Davies, Ronald B. - 2021
We explore the impact of bilateral tax treaties on foreign direct investment using data from OECD countries over the period 1982-1992. We find that recent treaty formation does not promote new investment, contrary to the common expectation. For certain specifications we find that treaty...
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