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Federalism's Values and the Value of Federalism
Inman, Robert P. - 2010
scholars and is there any evidence that would suggest all this attention is warranted? Proponents see federalism as a means to …, while policy decentralization is the key to federalism's strong rights and economic performance and can be achieved within a … provides federalism's valued outcomes. Third, federalism needs democracy; there is no evidence that adding policy …
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Protectionist Threats and Foreign Direct Investment
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2012
The recent literature on quid pro quo foreign direct investment (FDI) suggests that FDI may be induced by the threat of protection, and further, that FDI may be used as an instrument to defuse a protectionist threat. This paper uses a panel data set of 4-digit SIC level observations of Japanese...
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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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On Returns Differentials
Curcuru, Stephanie E. - 2013
Estimates of U.S. returns differentials have ranged from exorbitant to quite small, in part because of their volatility coupled with the relatively short time series available. We shed light on underlying drivers of returns differentials by presenting a number of decompositions: a by-asset-class...
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The Tax Sensitivity of Foreign Direct Investment : Evidence from Firm-Level Panel Data
Cummins, Jason G. - 2009
Understanding the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) is important for analyzing capital flows and the industrial organization of multinational firms. Most empirical studies of FDI, however, have focused on case studies of nontax factors in overseas investment decisions or on...
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Eliminating the Pass-Through : Towards FDI Statistics that Better Capture the Financial and Economic Linkages between Countries
Borga, Maria - 2018
FDI plays a central role in managing global production networks, but FDI statistics also reflect other factors, including tax avoidance, that make it difficult to differentiate between FDI for “long-term” investments that serves as a source of growth and FDI that is purely financial and has...
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Technology Capital and the U.S. Current Account
McGrattan, Ellen R. - 2010
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) estimates the return on investments of foreign subsidiaries of U.S. multinational companies over the period 1982--2006 averaged 9.4 percent annually after taxes; U.S. subsidiaries of foreign multinationals averaged only 3.2 percent. Two factors distort...
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Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment
Alfaro, Laura - 2010
We use a new firm level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries -- close to a comprehensive picture of global multinational activity. A number of patterns emerge from the data. Most foreign direct investment (FDI) occurs between rich...
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Host-Country Financial Development and Multinational Activity
Bilir, Kamran - 2014
This paper evaluates the influence of host-country financial conditions on the global operations of multinational firms. Using detailed U.S. data, we establish that financial development in a country is associated with relatively more entry by multinational affiliates, as well as with higher...
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Heterogeneous Frictional Costs Across Industries in Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2016
While there has been significant research to explore the determinants (and frictions) of foreign direct investment (FDI), past literature primarily focuses on country-wide FDI patterns with little examination of sectoral heterogeneity in FDI. Anecdotally, there is substantial sectoral...
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