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This paper uses dynamic panel data methods to examine the determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Central … role in determining the flows of FDI into the CEECs and help explain the different attractiveness for FDI of the individual …
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This chapter provides a survey of issues which emerge with the taxation of multinational enterprises. It addresses tax rates which affect multinational firms directly and focuses on provisions and incentives which relate to the profits and investments of such firms directly. It survey positive...
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than log-linear models to specify "normal" FDI and obtain estimates of unexhausted FDI potentials. I use panel data on …
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bilateral OECD outbound stocks of foreign direct investment (FDI) from 1991 to 2002. For this, we compile annual information on … bilateral tax treaties. Our findings indicate that the parent country's statutory corporate tax rate tends to foster outward FDI …, whereas the host country's statutory corporate and withholding tax rates are negatively associated with outward FDI …
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them to shed light on their role for bilateral foreign direct investment (FDI) stocks among the economies considered. Not … surprisingly, personal income tax rates turn out relatively less important than profit tax rates for bilateral FDI stocks. The … employee-borne part of labor taxes determines bilateral FDI significantly different from zero: both a higher employee-borne tax …
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Recent research in international economics highlights the role of interdependencies of investment decisions and sales of multinational firms. Previous work focused on and provided evidence for aggregate flows or stocks of foreign direct investment, showing that interdependence declines in...
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Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is not only a transfer of capital, but a complex bundle of capital and firm … productivity of FDI-receiving firms and to some extent also that of the other firms due to spillovers. From a host country's point …-framework we indeed find significant productivity improving effects of inward FDL Furthermore, there is some evidence that FDI …
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Firms cluster their economic activities to exploit technological and informational spillovers from other firms. Spillovers through the entry of multinational firms can be particularly beneficial to domestic firms because of their technological superiority. Yet, the importance of foreign firm's...
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empirically. More specifically, we use state-level German data to answer the question whether and how migration and FDI decisions … and thus integration of labor and capital markets are linked. Our findings suggest that FDI and migration have similar …
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Globalization seems to have diminished the importance of geographical distance. However, empirical studies find that distance coefficients in gravity equations change little over time. This paper argues that changes in distance coefficients do not carry much information on changes in distance...
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