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Export, foreign direct investment, and joint ventures: Learning the rival's costs through propinquity
Creane, Anthony; Miyagiwa, Kaz - 2007
We examine the role of cost uncertainty in a firm's choice between exporting and foreign investment in oligopolistic industry. We consider both foreign direct investment and an international joint venture, and allow country-specific and firm-specific cost uncertainty. Unlike exporting, either...
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Determinants of Different Modes of FDI: Firm-Level Evidence from Japanese FDI into the United States
Alba, Joseph D.; Park, Donghyun; Wang, Peiming - 2010
There are four major modes through which firms undertake foreign direct investment (FDI): merger and acquisition (M&A), joint venture, new plant, and others. The four modes of FDI are distinct from each other, and each has its own unique advantages and disadvantages. While a large and growing...
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Joint ventures of foreign investment in dictatorial contexts: the case of the hotel industry in Cuba
Rivero Silva, Sebastián - In: Atlantic Review of Economics (ARoEc) 5 (2022) 1, pp. 1-16
This article studies the particularities of the creation and operation of foreign investment Joint Ventures in dictatorial regimes, with special emphasis on the relationship between dictatorship and investors. The hotel business in Cuba is studied in depth as a case study, since it is a...
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Firm’s Intangible Assets and Multinational Activity: Joint-Venture Versus FDI
Gattai, Valeria - 2005
This paper provides a theoretical formalisation of the joint-venture contract, as an alternative to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), within a Dissipation of Intangible Assets framework. In a two-period, two-country equilibrium model, we discuss how the threat of knowledge spillover shapes the...
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Whole versus Shared Ownership of Foreign Affiliates
Stähler, Frank; Ryan, Michael; Raff, Horst - 2007
This paper studies why multinational firms often share ownership of a foreign affiliate with a local partner even in the absence of government restrictions on ownership. We show that shared ownership may arise, if (i) the partner owns assets that are potentially important for the investment...
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The Choice of Market Entry Mode: Greenfield Investment, M&A and Joint Venture
Stähler, Frank; Ryan, Michael; Raff, Horst - 2007
Multinationals may enter a host market by different modes of foreign direct investment (FDI). This paper examines the choice of FDI mode, and shows that the profitability of greenfield investment influences this choice not only directly, but also indirectly since it determines the outside option...
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Mode of international investment and endogenous risk of expropriation
Dadasov, Ramin; Lorz, Oliver - 2010
In this paper, we develop a politico-economic model to analyze the relationship between the mode of international investment and institutional quality in a non-democratic capital importing country. Foreign investors from a capital-rich North can either purchase productive assets in a...
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Whole versus Shared Ownership of Foreign Affiliates
Raff, Horst; Ryan, Michael; Stähler, Frank - 2008
This paper studies why multinational firms often share ownership of a foreign affiliate with a local partner even in the absence of government restrictions on ownership. We show that shared ownership may arise, if (i) the partner owns assets that are potentially important for the investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260614
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Wie beeinflussen die politische Lage und FDI das Wirtschaftswachstum? Empirische Evidenz für die Ukraine und Polen
Levoshko, Tamila - 2016
Die vorliegende Studie untersucht erstmalig für die Ukraine und Polen, wie der Wechsel der vertretenen Regierungspartei … Wechsel der Regierungspartei in der Ukraine eine negative Auswirkung auf das Wirtschaftswachstum hat, in Polen hingegen eine …,28% höher als in einer Region, in der die „pro-russische“ Janukovych-Partei an der Regierungsspitze ist. In Polen dagegen ist …
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Interregionale Effekte des Wirtschaftswachstums in der Ukraine und Polen
Levoshko, Tamila - 2016
Die vorliegende Studie untersucht erstmalig für die Ukraine und Polen, wie stark sich das Wirtschaftswachstum der … Wachstumseffekte in der Ukraine gibt, in Polen hingegen positive. Die Ergebnisse bleiben robust in Bezug auf die Spezifikation der …
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