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Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern European Countries: A Dynamic Panel Analysis

Carstensen, Kai; Toubal, Farid - 2003

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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Transfer Pricing and Debt Shifting in Multinationals

Schindler, Dirk; Schjelderup, Guttorm - 2013

There is a growing concern that governments lose substantial corporate tax revenue because of profit shifting through transfer-pricing and thin-capitalization strategies. Existing literature studies profit shifting and transfer pricing separately. In practice, the choice of debt-to-asset ratios...

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Playing Easy or Playing Hard to Get: When and How to Attract FDI

Gresik, Thomas A.; Schindler, Dirk; Schjelderup, Guttorm - 2020

institutional quality can be made worse off adopting policies that attract FDI as the benefits from higher wages and production are … ability to collect taxes, since the benefit of attracting more FDI outstrips the benefit of increased tax revenue. Countries … with very strong institutions benefit from FDI and should utilize their full ability to collect taxes. …

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Spillovers from Multinationals to Heterogeneous Domestic Firms: Evidence from Hungary

Békés, Gábor; Kleinert, Jörn; Toubal, Farid - 2006

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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Where Enterprises Lead, People Follow? Links between Migration and German FDI

Buch, Claudia M.; Kleinert, Jörn; Toubal, Farid - 2003

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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The Distance Puzzle: On the Interpretation of the Distance Coefficient in Gravity Equations

Buch, Claudia M.; Kleinert, Jörn; Toubal, Farid - 2003

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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Determinants of German FDI: New Evidence from Micro-Data

Toubal, Farid; Kleinert, Jörn; Buch, Claudia M. - 2003

the years 1990-2000 to describe the regional and sectoral patterns of German FDI through gravity-type equations. We … provide evidence on the patterns of FDI by sector, by size of the foreign affiliate, and by the number of affiliates per host … country. While market size and geographic distance have a significant impact on FDI stocks, we also find differences in the …

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Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances

Alfaro, Laura; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Volosovych, Vadym - 2011

We decompose capital flows -- both debt and equity -- into public and private components and study their relationship with productivity growth. This exercise reveals that international capital flows are mainly shaped by government decisions and sovereign to sovereign transactions. Specifically,...

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Intellectual Property Rights, Product Complexity, and the Organization of Multinational Firms

Naghavi, Alireza; Spies, Julia; Toubal, Farid - 2011

This paper studies how the Intellectual Property Right (IPR) regime in destination countries influences the way multinationals structure the international organization of their production. In particular, we explore how multinationals divide tasks of different complexities across countries with...

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Distance and the margins of multinational firms' activities

Kleinert, Jörn; Toubal, Farid - 2010

We present a model of multinational firms that predicts that aggregated affiliates' sales fall in distance. The distance effect on foreign affiliate sales is driven by the extensive margin: distance affects the number of affiliates negatively while it has an ambiguous effect on the average...

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