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How do corporate taxes affect international trade?
Holzner, Mario; Jovanović, Branimir; Vukšić, Goran - 2021
This paper investigates how corporate income taxes affect international trade, and identifies the underlying channel. Using data on 33 NACE sectors, for 34 EU and OECD economies, over the period 2005-2014, we find that corporate income taxes reduce exports and imports only when the stock of...
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Economic sentiment indicators and foreign direct investment : empirical evidence from European Union countries
Cieślik, Andrzej; Ghodsi, Mahdi - 2021
This paper studies the role of business sentiment in the decisions of multinational enterprises (MNEs) to undertake foreign direct investment (FDI) across European Union (EU) member states. Based on the knowledge-capital model, the study employs the Pseudo Poisson Maximum Likelihood (PPML)...
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Improving taxation environment : attracting foreign direct investment
Singh, R. R. - 2016
phase. World financial environment had remained depressed since 2008. The actions of the government in the area of taxation … to law further aggravated the taxation environment specially in the area of international taxation. This badly affected … deals with the concerns of the multinationals in the area of taxation environment. Section two deals with the genesis of the …
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Impact of American investment in India
Ray, Saon; Miglani, Smita; Malik, Neha - 2015
The United States is India's largest trade and investment partner and is engaged with India at various levels of economic cooperation. This paper studies the direct and indirect impact of US FDI inflows in India and identifies the challenges faced by US investors. The paper is based on secondary...
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Can multinationals withstand growing trade barriers?
Ghodsi, Mahdi; Vujanović, Nina; Landesmann, Michael - 2024
Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are increasingly dealing with challenges shaped by the new geopolitical and trade environments. Besides traditional tariffs, exporting firms need to comply with regulatory non-tariff measures (NTMs) in the form of technical barriers to trade (TBTs) and sanitary...
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Productivity spillovers from FDI : a firm-level cross-country analysis
Ahn, JaeBin; Aiyar, Shekhar; Presbitero, Andrea - 2024
This paper provides cross-country firm-level evidence on productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI), separately for greenfield FDI and crossborder mergers and acquisitions (M&As). The granularity of bilateral sector-level FDI datasets allows for addressing possible endogeneity...
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Technology capital and the U.S. current accounts
McGrattan, Ellen R. (contributor);  … - 2007 - rev.
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Lobbying activities of multinational firms
Polk, Andreas (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper investigates if multinationals in.uence the political process through lobbying more effectively than national firms. First, I introduce a model which contrasts a multinational’s incentives for lobbying with those of a national firm. Then the effect of lobbying on the political...
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Lobbying and the power of multinational firms
Polk, Andreas; Schmutzler, Armin; Müller, Adrian - 2010
Are national or multinational firms better lobbyists? This paper analyzes the extent of national environmental regulation when policy is determined in a lobbying game between a government and firm. We compare the resulting regulation levels for national and multinational firms. We identify three...
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Japan's foreign direct investment experiences in India : lessons learnt from firm level surveys
Choudhury, Srabani Roy - 2009
Ever since India decided to globalize, concentrated effort was made to attract Japanese participation through foreign direct investment. However, response from Japan has been rather subdued. This paper attempts to gain some insight into this reluctance of Japanese investors by studying the...
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