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Hosting Multinationals: Economic and Fiscal Implications

Köthenbürger, Marko; Egger, Peter - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, … - 2015

Switzerland is a prime location for both domestically owned as well as foreign-owned multinational enterprises (MNEs). In this paper, we review the literature on MNE activity with respect to its main fundamental (non-policy) drivers, the non-fiscal consequences of MNEs for various economic...

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AN OVERVIEW OF THE EUROPEAN TAX HAVENS

Maftei, Loredana - In: CES Working Papers 5(1) (2013), pp. 41-50

In the actual context of economic globalization, tax havens represent a significant obstacle for global governments seeking to increase their fiscal incomes and a source of polarization of income and wealth. Statistics reports showed that tax havens hold at least $10 trillion in assets, money...

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AN OVERVIEW OF THE EUROPEAN TAX HAVENS

Maftei, Loredana - In: CES Working Papers 5(1) (2013), pp. 33-42

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Home market effect versus multinationals

TOULEMONDE, Eric - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2007

In this paper, based on the cyclic scheduling formulation of Schilling and Pantelides [22], we propose a continuous time mixed integer linear programming (MILP) formulation for the cyclic scheduling of a mixed plant, i.e. a plant composed of batch and continuous tasks. The cycle duration is a...

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Home Market Effect versus Multinationals

Toulemonde, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We develop a model with two asymmetric countries. Firms choose the number and the location of plants that they operate. The production of each firm increases when trade costs fall. The fall also induces multinationals to repatriate their production into a single country, which is likely to be...

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Transnational corporations' activity - the premise of economic globalization and sustainable development

Murariu, Ioana Adriana - Facultatea de Finante şi Banci, Universitatea Spiru Haret - 2009

The process of growing integration of contemporary economic relations, manifested in the last decades of the twentieth century and the beginning of the new millennium, was the premise of the expansion of transnational corporation and by this means, of the increased investment flows, technology...

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Corporaciones transnacionales y tendencias de la inversión extranjera en la globalización

Castro, Jorge Fonseca - In: EKONOMIAZ 68 (2008) 02, pp. 310-353

In this paper we analyse the process of the accelerated growth of the investments by the transnational corporations since the 70s, most of which (almost 90%) are mergers and cross-border purchases. These strategies predominately orientate towards the market, together with the benefit of salary...

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Globalization's impact on compliance with labor standards

Harrison, Ann; Scorse, Jason - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

In an effort to shed some light on the larger question of labor standardsvand globalization, we seek to examine compliance with minimum wage legislation in Indonesia. Indonesia is an ideal case study because the govern ment made minimum wages a central component of its labor market policies in...

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EU enlargement and consequences for FDI assisted industrial development

Narula, Rajneesh; Bellak, Christian - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

Many of the new member states as well as candidate and accession countries of the EU are confident that membership will result in substantially increased inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in manufacturing. This paper discusses the policy issues and challenges that cohesion and accession...

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Transnational Company – Main Player of Economic Life Globalization

Alina, Voiculeþ - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XIV (2014) 1, pp. 68-71

Most often, when one speaks of world power, what is highlighted is the ability of a country or group of countries to … sanctions. Yet, under the current circumstances where the world economy is continuously globalizing, one cannot ignore the power … held by "development agents", namely transnational companies. As it happens with all the issues existing in this world …

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