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Competing back for foreign direct investment
Zhai, Weifeng - In: Economic Modelling 39 (2014) C, pp. 146-150
. Second, as a result, policy competition does not change regional welfare. Lastly, the equilibrium policy could be either a …
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Foreign Direct Investment Modes and Local Backward Linkages
Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Pavlou, Apostolis - CESifo - 2014
-border acquisition reduces welfare, greenfield investment can be welfare-improving. These results suggest that policy should distinguish …
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Location of Foreign Direct Investment in Vertically Related Markets
Milliou, Chrysovalantou - CESifo - 2013
less developed, FDI is always welfare-enhancing. …
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Quality-Improving R&D, Trade Barriers, and Foreign Direct Investment
Heinrich, Jeffrey - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 1997
This investigation pits Cournot oligopolists against each other in a model of quality and R&D choice. A firm gains a strategic advantage over its rival when it is able to sell in more countries due to the jointness of quality improvements across production locations. Trade barriers that restrict...
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Subsidy competition and the role of firm ownership
Mittermaier, Ferdinand - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper addresses the role that foreign vs. domestic ownership of companies plays for governments in asymmetric countries’ competition for a multinational’s subsidiary. I argue that equilibrium subsidies as well as a foreign investor’s location decision in policy competition between...
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Privatization and policy competition for FDI
AMERIGHI, Oscar; DE FEO, Giuseppe - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2008
is lower than the welfare-maximizing one. The drawback is that social welfare generally decreases. We also investigate … with an instrument which can be used either to reduce the negative impact on welfare of an FDI-attracting privatization or …
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The Role of Firm Ownership in Tax Competition
Mittermaier, Ferdinand - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 65 (2009) 3, pp. 297-312
This paper analyzes the role that the ownership structure of companies plays for governments in asymmetric countries´ competition for a multinational´s subsidiary. I argue that equilibrium tax policies as well as a foreign investor´s location decision in policy competition between these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010625729
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The role of firm ownership in policy competition for foreign direct investment between asymmetric countries
Sanjo, Yasuo - In: International Review of Economics & Finance 35 (2015) C, pp. 110-121
This study develops a two-country policy competition model for foreign direct investment between asymmetric countries. It analyzes how firm ownership via foreign capital affects the investment location choice of the foreign firm, and policy competition between the potential host countries. The...
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Endogenous Market Structure and the Gains from Foreign Direct Inverstment
Santis, Roberto A. De; Stähler, Frank - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999
is welfare improving for the foreign country, but welfare declining for the domestic country. If only multinational firms … are competitive, the impact on market structure and the welfare of the domestic country is indeterminate, whereas the … welfare of the foreign country improves. By contrast, if the oligopolistic industry is located in both countries' then FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700568
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Far From Home: Do Foreign Investors Import Higher Standards of Governance in Transition Economies?
Hellman, Joel S.; Jones, Geraint; Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003
of governance standards; ii) in misgoverned settings, FDI firms may magnify the problems of state capture and procurement …
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