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Learning Versus Stealing : How Important are Market-Share Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth?

Harrison, Ann E. - 2011

, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an important … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms. Finally, we construct a panel dataset that allows us to track firms …

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Absenteeism, Productivity, and Relational Contracts Inside the Firm

Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Gauthier, Jean-Francois; Nyshadham, Anant - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study relational contracts among managers using unique data that tracks transfers of workers across teams in Indian ready-made garment factories. We focus on how relational contracts help managers cope with worker absenteeism shocks, which are frequent, often large, weakly correlated across...

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Exploring New Markets : Direct Investment, Contractual Relations and the Multinational Enterprise

Horstmann, Ignatius J. - 1995

We consider the multinational firm's decision on whether to enter a new market immediately via direct investment or to contract initially with a local agent and (possibly) invest later. Use of a local agent allows the multinational to avoid costly mistakes by finding out if the market is large...

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High-Cost Domestic Joint Ventures and International Competition : Do Domestic Firms Gain?

Raubitschek, Ruth R. - 1994

This paper develops the idea that when markets are imperfectly competitive, final producers may gain from a joint venture that produces part of their input requirements even though marginal cost exceeds the input's market price. Production by the joint venture lowers the market price of the...

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Why Do Multinational Firms Seek Out Joint Ventures?

Blomstrom, Magnus - 1989

This paper uses a model of dichotomous choice to distinguish the characteristics of Swedish multinational firms that seek out joint ventures from those that do not. The findings suggest that firms with little experience of foreign production and highly diversified product lines are the most...

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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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Exports and Foreign Investment in Manufacturing Industries

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1976

One of the main purposes of our studies of U.S.-based multinational firms has been to examine the relationship between direct investment by U.S. firms and the export trade of the United States, a subject of bitter controversy for at least the last fifteen years. Changes over time in trade flows...

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Innovation and Foreign Ownership

Guadalupe, Maria - 2010

This paper uses a rich panel dataset of Spanish manufacturing firms (1990-2006) and a propensity score reweighting estimator to show that multinational firms acquire the most productive domestic firms, which, on acquisition, conduct more product and process innovation (simultaneously adopting...

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Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution

Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 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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The Effects of Overseas Investment on Domestic Employment

Chen, Tain-Jy - 2003

In this paper, we study the effects of FDI on domestic employment by examining the data of Taiwan's manufacturing industry. Treating domestic production and overseas production as two distinctive outputs from a joint production function, we may estimate the effect of overseas production on the...

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