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Empirical work finds that flows of investments from the U.S. and other high income countries to emerging markets increase during times of quantitative easing by the U.S. Federal Reserve, and the reverse movement occurs under quantitative tightening. We offer new evidence to confirm these...
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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 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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to the 1990s, VC was primarily a US-only phenomenon. The globalization of IT activities induced the US venture capital …
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government spending can bolster support for globalization by reducing the risk associated with it in the minds of voters …
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,' 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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actual aggregate cross-section data for 89 countries in 2011 to a hypothetical world without FDI. The gains from FDI amount … to 9\% of world's welfare and to 11% of world's trade, unevenly distributed among winners and losers. Net exports of FDI …
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This paper proposes a proximity-concentration tradeoff in product space as a determinant of horizontal foreign direct investment (FDI). Firms that enter a foreign market by exporting are able to capture consumer surplus from introducing a differentiated product with characteristics that the...
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between globalization and innovation does not differ across the manufacturing and service sectors …Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to innovate and improve their …, vertical linkages with foreign firms, and international trade on several types of innovation by domestic firms. Using …
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This essay highlights the effects of radical transformations in the liberal characteristics of the regimes on foreign direct investors. To focus on the common patterns in the effects on foreign direct investment, of liberal vs. illiberal regime change, the essay spotlights the tale of two...
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