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Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution
Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Becker, Sascha O. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Employment at multinational enterprises (MNEs) responds to wages at the extensive margin, when an MNE enters a foreign location, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE operates existing affiliates. We present an MNE model and conditions for parametric and nonparametric identification. Prior...
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Quid Pro Quo: Technology Capital Transfers for Market Access in China
Holmes, Thomas; Prescott, Edward C.; McGrattan, Ellen R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
pro quo policy of exchanging market access for transfers of technology capital--accumulated know-how such as research and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950940
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Intellectual Property Rights, Foreign Direct Investment, and Industrial Development
Saggi, Kamal; Branstetter, Lee - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
This paper develops a North-South product model in which Southern imitation and the North-South flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) are endogenously determined. In the model, a strengthening of IPR protection in the South reduces the rate of imitation, which, in turn, increases the flow of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008628433
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Do Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Increase International Technology Transfer? Empirical Evidence from U.S. Firm-Level Data
Branstetter, Lee; Fisman, Raymond; Foley, C. Fritz - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
This paper examines how technology transfer within U.S. multinational firms changes in response to a series of IPR … payments for technology transferred to affiliates increase at the time of reforms, as do affiliate R&D expenditures and total ….S. multinationals respond to changes in IPR regimes abroad by significantly increasing technology transfer to reforming countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714898
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Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence
Saggi, Kamal; Branstetter, Lee; Fisman, Raymond; Foley, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper theoretically and empirically analyzes the effect of strengthening intellectual property rights in developing countries on the level and composition of industrial development. We develop a North-South product cycle model in which Northern innovation, Southern imitation, and FDI are...
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Offshore jurisdictions (including Cyprus), corruption money laundering and Russian round-trip investment
Whalley, John; Ledyaeva, Svetlana; Karhunen, Päivi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
In this paper we analyze the link between corruption money laundering and round-trip investment via offshore jurisdictions utilizing Russian firm-level data. In particular we empirically explore location strategies of round-trip investors (namely, from Cyprus and British Virgin Islands) across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969415
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Political Risk Spreads
Bekaert, Geert; Harvey, Campbell; Lundblad, Christian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We introduce a new, market-based and forward looking measure of political risk derived from the yield spread between a country's U.S. dollar debt and an equivalent U.S. Treasury bond. We explain the variation in these sovereign spreads with four factors: global economic conditions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951038
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Networked FDI: Sales and Sourcing Patterns of Japanese Foreign Affiliates
Baldwin, Richard; Okubo, Toshihiro - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper applies a novel empirical approach to characterising the horizontal-ness and vertical-ness of affiliates based on Yeaple's complex FDI concept. In its simplest form, horizontal-ness is measured as affiliates' local sales share while their vertical-ness is measures as their share of...
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International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurial Firm Activity
Alfaro, Laura; Charlton, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. We use a unique firm level data set of approximately 24 million firms in nearly 100 countries in 2004 and 1999, which enables us to present both cross-country and industry...
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Grossman-Hart (1986) Goes Global: Incomplete Contracts, Property Rights, and the International Organization of Production
Antras, Pol - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
I survey the influence of Grossman and Hart's (1986) seminal paper in the field of International Trade. I discuss the implementation of the theory in open-economy environments and its implications for the international organization of production and the structure of international trade flows. I...
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