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U.S. Greenfield Investments and M&A location: impact of American continental integration and Insider vs. Outsider position

Bertrand, Olivier; Madariaga, Nicole - Royal Economic Society - RES - 2003

locations. We use panel data on U.S. FDI in NAFTA and MERCOSUR members from 1989 to 1998. Economic integration is captured …

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Employment protection and globalisation in dynamic oligopoly

Dewit, Gerda; Leahy, Dermot; Montagna, Catia - Royal Economic Society - RES - 2003

We construct a model in which oligopolistic firms decide where to locate. Firms choose to locate either in a country where employment protection implies costly output adjustments or in one without adjustment costs. Using a two-period three-stage game with uncertainty it is demonstrated that...

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Spillovers from foreign firms through worker mobility: An empirical investigation

Gorg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - Royal Economic Society - RES - 2003

While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature. Our results suggest that firms which...

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Market Entry and Foreign Direct Investment

Stahler, Frank - Royal Economic Society - RES - 2003

This paper discusses the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on market entry and welfare. It assumes that firms … may enter markets in the first period as national firms only. In the second period, however, FDI is possible. The paper … demonstrates that FDI reduces market entry because equilibrium profits in the second period decline with a decrease in the fixed …

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Foreign ownership, returns to scale and productivity: Evidence from UK manufacturing establishments

Girma, Sourafel; Gorg, Holger - Royal Economic Society - RES - 2003

This paper focuses on the pattern of returns to scale and productivity growth in UK manufacturing establishments in the electronics and food industries. Our results show that foreign establishments tend to have lower returns to scale than their domestic counterparts. Moreover, foreign...

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