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World market access of emerging-market firms : the role of foreign ownership and access to external finance
Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2013
firm will export or import. Foreign ownership has a large positive impact on the likelihood to engage in direct trade but a … negative effect on the likelihood to trade through intermediaries; the effects vary across upper and lower middle income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009772816
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World market access of emerging-market firms : the role of foreign ownership and access to external finance
Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2013
firm will export or import. Foreign ownership has a large positive impact on the likelihood to engage in direct trade but a … negative effect on the likelihood to trade through intermediaries; the effects vary across upper and lower middle income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009762374
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Foreign ownership and the export and import propensities of developing-country firms
Boddin, Dominik; Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2015
This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership affects the likelihood of manufacturers in developing countries to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for differences across firms in terms of labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496200
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World Market Access of Emerging-Market Firms : The Role of Foreign Ownership and Access to External Finance
Raff, Horst - 2013
firm will export or import. Foreign ownership has a large positive impact on the likelihood to engage in direct trade but a … negative effect on the likelihood to trade through intermediaries; the effects vary across upper and lower middle income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078522
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World market access of emerging-market firms : the role of foreign ownership and access to external finance
Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2014
firm will export or import. Foreign ownership has a large positive impact on the likelihood to engage in direct trade but a … negative effect on the likelihood to trade through intermediaries; the effects vary across upper and lower middle income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440627
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Technological Asymmetries and Strategic Plant Location : The Case of Export-Platform Foreign Direct Investment
Guariglia, Alessandra - 2006
We consider the plant location decision of a multinational corporation (MNC), which has the option to invest in a more or in a less technologically lagging country, and which aims to use its foreign plant as an export-platform. We show that the plant location decision of the MNC depends on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012732577
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Asset Ownership and Foreign-Market Entry
Raff, Horst - 2006
This paper examines the link between a firm's ownership of productive assets and its choice of foreign-market entry strategy. We find that, controlling for industry - and country-specific characteristics, the most productive firms (i.e., those owning the most assets) will enter through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780461
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Environmental Regulation : An Incentive for FDI
Dijkstra, Bouwe; Mathew, Anuj; Mukherjee, Arijit - 2006
Empirical evidence has so far failed to find firm support for the Pollution Haven Hypothesis that lenient environmental regulation attracts investment from polluting firms. We show that a firm may want to relocate to a country with stricter environmental regulation, when the move raises its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054268
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Trade Cost, Technology Licensing and Foreign Direct Investment
Mukherjee, Arijit; Suetrong, Kullapat - 2006
Recent evidences show the co-existence of lower trade cost and higher amount of foreign direct investment (FDI), which … cannot be explained by the traditional "proximity-concentration trade-off". We show that if both the home and the host … country markets are important to the foreign firm, lower trade cost may increase FDI if the foreign and the host country firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014055480
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Governance, Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Welfare
Maiti, Dibyendu S.; Mukherjee, Arijit - 2010
the literature on trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) hardly pays attention to this aspect. We develop a simple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014189095