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Emerging Market Business Groups, Foreign Investors, and Corporate Governance
Khanna, Tarun - 1999
We examine the interaction between three kinds of concentrated owners commonly found in an emerging market: family-run business groups, domestic financial institutions, and foreign financial institutions. Using data from India in the early 1990s, we find evidence that domestic international...
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Foreign Owners and Plant Survival
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2003
In recent years, international capital flows of all types have increased dramatically and most governments have been actively encouraging inflows of direct investment. However, concerns remain that reliance on foreign multinationals may be a risky development strategy as foreign firms are likely...
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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 …-owned foreign affiliates across ownership forms and regions. Ten percent higher tax rates are associated with 5.0 percent lower FDI … parent company and level of FDI. Tax effects are particularly strong within Europe, where ten percent higher tax rates are …
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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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Innocents Abroad : The Hazards of International Joint Ventures with Pyramidal Group Firms
Perkins, Susan - 2008
The fundamental unit of production in microeconomics is the firm, and this mirrors reality in the United States and United Kingdom. But elsewhere, business groups can be the more important unit, for business strategy is often formulated at the business group level, not the firm level. In many...
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Outward FDI and Parent Exports and Employment : Japan, the United States, and Sweden
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000
Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income level. This relationship is similar to that found for...
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Endogenous Market Structure and Foreign Market Entry
Markusen, James R. - 2009
Models dealing with cross-border acquisitions versus greenfield investment usually assume that the entry of a foreign firm into a market has effects on the outputs of all domestic firms in that market, but exit or entry of local firms is not considered. The purpose of this paper is to re-examine...
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Technology Capital and the U.S. Current Account
McGrattan, Ellen R. - 2008
(FDI). Plant-specific intangible capital in foreign subsidiaries is expensed abroad, lowering current profits on FDI and … increasing future profits. We develop a multicountry general equilibrium model with an essential role for FDI and apply the BEA …
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Optimal Integration Strategies for the Multinational Firm
Grossman, Gene M. - 2003
We examine integration strategies of multinational firms that face a rich array of choices of international organization. Each firm in an industry must provide headquarter services from its home country, produce intermediate inputs, and assemble the intermediate goods into final products. Both...
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Foreign Ownership and Wages in the United States, 1987 - 1992
Feliciano, Zadia - 1999
Foreign-owned establishments in the United States pay higher wages, on average, than domestically-owned establishments. Much of the difference is related to industry composition, but there are also differences within industries within states, 5-7 percent in manufacturing and 9-10 percent in...
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