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International outsourcing's role in international technology diffusion : the Irish case

McCann, Fergal - 2009

This paper analyses how international outsourcing affects plant productivity, with the major contribution lying in the …. -- Outsourcing ; Productivity ; Firm structure …

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Joint foreign ownership and global value chains effects on productivity : a comparison of firms from Poland and Germany

Szymczak, Sabina; Parteka, Aleksandra; … - 2022 - This version: May 2022

productivity performance of firms from a catching-up country (Poland) and a leader economy (Germany). Domestic owned firms are less …, the foreign ownership productivity premium decreases, leading to productivity catching up between foreign and domestic … firms' productivity performance is more stable along the GVC distribution. …

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Learning or leaning : persistent and transitory spillovers from FDI

Davies, Ronald B.; Lamla, Michael; Schiffbauer, Marc - 2016

Using firm-level data for Jordan, we estimate the extent to which growth spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) to local firms stem from persistent learning externalities (i.e., they endure even after foreign investment leaves as knowledge has been transferred to local firms) or from...

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How far away is an intangible? : services FDI and distance

Davies, Ronald B.; Guillin, Amélie - 2011 - First draft

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in services has grown significantly in recent years. Evidence of spatial relationships in FDI decisions have been provided for goods manufacturing by utilizing physical distance-based measures of trade costs. This paper investigates spatial interactions for...

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Foreign direct investment and the ease of doing business

Corcoran, Adrian; Gillanders, Robert - 2012

This paper examines the effect that a country's business regulatory environment has on the amount of foreign direct investment it attracts. We use the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business ranking to capture the costs that firms face when operating in a country. Several interesting results emerge....

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Greenfield versus merger & acquisition FDI : same wine, different bottles?

Davies, Ronald B.; Desbordes, Rodolphe; Ray, Anna - 2015

Relying on a large foreign direct investment (FDI) transaction level dataset, unique both in terms of disaggregation and time and country coverage, this paper examines patterns in greenfield (GF) versus merger & acquisition (MA) investment. Although both are found to seek out large markets with...

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Transport infrastructure investments and competition for FDI

Hynes, Kate; Ma, Jie; Yuan, Cheng - 2017

This paper studies how transport infrastructure investments affect a bidding war for a firm between two asymmetric countries within a region in a context of imperfect competition, where transport infrastructure investments play the role of a global public good, leading to a reduction in the unit...

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Former employees of foreign MNEs boost incumbent workers' wages in domestic firms?

Flaherty, Eoin T. - 2022

This paper examines evidence on wage spillovers from workers with experience in foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) to incumbent workers in domestic firms. Using administrative panel data from Ireland, I examine possible heterogeneity for such spillovers across the wage distribution using...

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Local linkages : the interdependence of foreign and domestic firms

Hynes, Kate; Kwan, Yum-keung; Foley, Anthony - 2017 - This version: 24 May 2017

which they respond differently to variations in export intensity and productivity originating from each of the two groups of … productivity. Local linkages of foreign firms, by contrast, react gradually to exogenous events and the impact works through the …

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Which firms benefit more from inward foreign direct investment?

Vahter, Priit (contributor) - 2005

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