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Lipsey, Robert E. - 2002

Fears that production abroad would cause home country exports and employment to fall have not been confirmed by evidence. Multinational operations have led to a shift by parent firms in the United States toward more capital- intensive and skill- intensive domestic production. However, that type...

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No Place Like Home : Tax Incentives and the Location of R&D by American Multinationals

Hines, James R, Jr - 1993

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. - 1983

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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Chains of Ownership, Regional Tax Competition, and Foreign Direct Investment

Desai, Mihir A. - 2002

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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Altered States : Taxes and the Location of Foreign Direct Investment in America

Hines, James R, Jr - 1993

This paper examines the effect of taxation on foreign investment and on business location within the United States. The idea is to compare the inter-state distribution of investments from certain foreign countries (those with foreign tax credit systems) with the distribution of investments from...

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Exports and Foreign Investment in Manufacturing Industries

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1976

direct investment by U.S. firms and the export trade of the United States, a subject of bitter controversy for at least the …

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Exports and Foreign Investment in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1975

The relationship between direct investment and trade has always been recognized as one of the most difficult aspects of the study of multinational companies and their impact on their own countries and their affiliates' host countries. We cannot solve the fundamental dilemma of the inability to...

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Foreign Production by U.S. Firms and Parent Firm Employment

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1999

Despite the persistent fears that production abroad by U.S. multinationals reduces employment at home, there has, in fact, been almost no aggregate shift of production or employment to foreign countries. Some continuing shifts to foreign locations by U.S. manufacturing firms have been largely...

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Factor Prices and Factor Substitution in U.S. Firms' Manufacturing Affiliates Abroad

Borga, Maria - 2004

intensity. Affiliates that export are more sensitive to these factors in their choice of factor proportions than affiliates that …

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Institutions and Foreign Investment : China versus the World

Fan, Joseph P.H. - 2007

Weak institutions ought to deter foreign direction investment (FDI), and mass media stories highlight China …'s institutional deficiencies, yet China is now one of the world's largest FDI destinations. This incongruity characterizes China …'s paradoxical growth. Cross-country regressions show that China's FDI inflow is not exceptionally large, given the quality of its …

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