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Foreign Direct Investment, Labour Market Regulation and Self-Interested Governments
Palokangas, Tapio - 2003
This document examines foreign direct investment (FDI) when multinationals and labour unions bargain over labour contracts and lobby the self-interested government for taxation and labour market regulation. We demonstrate that right-to-manage bargaining predicts higher returns for FDI than does...
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Optimal incentive regulation of multinational enterprises
Calzolari, Giacomo - 1999
). We show that standard theory in the economics of regulation must be reconsidered in a world with MNEs and novel results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608515
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Lobbying and the power of multinational firms
Polk, Andreas; Schmutzler, Armin; Müller, Adrian - 2010
regulation when policy is determined in a lobbying game between a government and firm. We compare the resulting regulation levels … lobbying, but that lobbying can reverse the welfare ordering. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315488
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Lobbying activities of multinational firms
Polk, Andreas - 2002
This paper investigates if multinationals in.uence the political process through lobbying more effectively than … national firms. First, I introduce a model which contrasts a multinational's incentives for lobbying with those of a national … firm. Then the effect of lobbying on the political decision is analyzed. I conclude that multinationals have smaller …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315594
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Location Choices of Multinational Firms: The Case of Mergers and Acquisitions
Zitouna, Habib; Mucchielli, Jean-Louis; Bertrand, Olivier - 2004
This article examines the location choices of cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) between OECD members´ firms in the 1990`s. In addition to traditional determinants of FDI, we estimate the impact of specific factors affecting the M&A location pattern. Two distinct econometric methods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295407
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The Trade-Off between Foreign Direct Investments and Exports: The Role of Multiple Dimensions of Distance
Lankhuizen, Maureen; de Groot, Henri L.F.; Linders, … - 2009
Investment (FDI). The conventional proximity-concentration theory suggests that FDI substitutes for trade if distance between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325651
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Multinationals without Advantages
Motta, Massimo - 1996
We propose a simple model to analyze the widespread idea that a necessary condition for firms to make foreign direct investments is that they have firm-specific advantages with respect to host country firms. We show that no such advantages are necessary to become multinationals. Further, firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334751
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On the Treatment of Finance-Specific Factors Within the OLI Paradigm
Oxelheim, Lars; Randøy, Trond; Stonehill, Arthur - 2001
This article argues that the body of foreign direct investment (FDI) literature in general and the ownership, location, and internalization (OLI) paradigm in particular would be enriched if finance-specific factors are explicitly incorporated as drivers of FDI. We suggest that financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335020
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Foreign direct investment and environmental taxes
De Santis, Roberto A.; Stähler, Frank - 2008
This paper studies the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on environmental policy stringency in a two-country model with trade costs, where FDI could be unilateral and bilateral and both governments address local pollution through environmental taxes. We show that FDI does not give rise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604967
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Distance, Trade and FDI: A Hausman-Taylor SUR Approach
Egger, Peter; Pfaffermayr, Michael - 2001
Theory model assuming that distance affects both pure trade costs and plant set-up costs. Exports and FDI are not necessarily …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435093