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Do liquidity constraints matter in explaining firm size and growth? Some evidence from the Italian manufacturing industry
Fagiolo, Giorgio; Luzzi, Alessandra - 2004
The paper investigates whether liquidity constraints affect firm size and growth dynamics using a large longitudinal sample of Italian manufacturing firms. We run standard panel-data Gibrat regressions, suitably expanded to take into account liquidity constraints (proxied by cash flow scaled by...
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Pitfalls in private and social incentives of vertical crossborder outsourcing
Rossini, Gianpaolo - 2005
Vertical production processes take increasingly place in a crossborder fashion with two distinct patterns. Either a multinational firm (MNF) controls the whole vertical chain spreading production over many countries or vertically separeted firms, belonging to different countries, operate...
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Multinational Production and Global Shock Propagation during the Great Recession
Li, Haishi - 2023
Did multinational production (MP) exacerbate or mitigate the collapse of international trade during the Great Recession? What role did MP and trade links play in propagating economic shocks across countries? I resolve the "Multinationals' Resilience Puzzle" during the Great Recession by...
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Financial crises and the global supply network: Evidence from multinational enterprises
Basco, Sergi; Felice, Giulia; Merlevede, Bruno; … - 2023
This paper empirically examines the effects of financial crises on the organization of production of multinational enterprises. We construct a panel of European multinational networks from 2003 through 2015. We use as a financial shock the increase in risk premia between August 2007 and July...
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Subsidizing Away Exports? A Note on R&D-policy towards Multinational Firms
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan - 2010
In this paper, I investigate whether instead of strengthening home-based production, government R&D-subsidies can induce R&D-intensive firms to locate production abroad. Investigating firm-level data on Swedish MNEs, however, I find no evidence of such relocation. R&D subsidies rather tend to en...
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International production, investments and borrowing with exchange rate risk and futures markets
Broll, Udo; Zilcha, Itzhak - 1991
In this paper we consider a multinational firm under exchange rate risk in a multiperiod model. We analyze the impact of exchange rate uncertainty and the use of currency futures on the risk-averse firm's decisions about home and foreign production. Without any markets for hedging an increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398141
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Preferential trade agreements: The case of EU-Mexico
Busse, Matthias; Huth, Matthias; Koopmann, Georg - 2000
The paper evaluates the political and economic incentives to conclude the EU-Mexico Free Trade Agreement (FTA). It … the EU is likely to gain much more than Mexico. … EU und Mexiko bewertet. Dafür werden die europäische und mexikanische Handelspolitik analysiert und der multilaterale …
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Tomatoes or Tomato Pickers? - Free Trade and Migration in the NAFTA Case
del Río, Amaranta Melchor; Thorwarth, Susanne - 2006
This paper examines the relationship between trade liberalisation and migration in the case of Mexico. The increasing … bilateral trade between Mexico and the United States after signing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was supposed … for illegal migration. The results indicate that increasing trade flows cause larger illegal migration from Mexico to the …
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The effect of publicly provided health insurance on academic performance in Mexico
Alcaraz, Carlo; Chiquiar, Daniel; Orraca, María José; … - 2012
's academic performance using the case of Mexico. In general, access to free health insurance could improve education outcomes …
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Remittances, schooling, and child labor in Mexico
Alcaraz, Carlo; Chiquiar, Daniel; Salcedo, Alejandrina - 2010
This paper studies the effects of remittances from the U.S. on child labor and school attendance in recipient Mexican households. We identify these effects using the impact of the 2008-2009 U.S. recession on remittance receipts. The methodology employed is a differences-in-differences strategy...
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