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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...
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Is it possible to control and optimize technology transfer process?
De Falco, Stefano - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 1 (2012), pp. 1-9
Is it possible to control and optimize technology transfer process? Engineers and quality practitioners are often faced with the problem of determining the optimal choice of key factor in the tolerance process evaluation regarding the quality of the process to be monitored. To guarantee a...
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Globalization and the urban poor
Perlman, Janice E. - 2007
The focus of this paper is the effect of contemporary globalization on poverty and inequality in cities of the ‘global … south’. Specifically it addresses the impact of globalization on marginalized communities—slums, squatter settlements and …. The paper takes a critical look at current assumptions about globalization, urban poverty, and inequality, distinguishing …
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Multinational location decisions and the impact on labour markets
Gaston, Noel; Nelson, Douglas - 2001
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown far more rapidly than trade during the last two decades. As with the other prominent features of globalisation, FDI is controversial. The impact of FDI on labour markets has been of growing concern, particularly, for source countries. The deterioration...
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Selbstselektion statt Personalauswahl? Auslandsentsendungen in der deutschen chemischen Industrie
Minssen, Heiner; Schmidt, Susanne - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 22 (2008) 3, pp. 228-248
Am Beispiel der deutschen chemischen Industrie, einer mittelständisch, aber international orientierten Branche untersuchen wir, in welchem Umfang bei der Abwicklung internationaler Aktivitäten auf Auslandsentsendungen zurückgegriffen wird. Wir zeigen, dass dies deutlich seltener geschieht,...
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On the Coexistence of National Companies and Multinational Enterprises
Kleinert, Jörn - 2003
National and multinational companies coexist in many sectors of all developed countries. However, economic models fail to reproduce this fact because of the assumption of symmetry between companies. To show that the symmetry assumption is the reason for this failure, a two-country general...
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Globalization of the World Economy: What Happened in 1985?
Kleinert, Jörn - 2000
This paper brings forward a three-country model to analyze the internationalization process in the age of globalization …
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Foreign direct investment and cost uncertainty: Correlation and learning effects
Creane, Anthony; Miyagiwa, Kaz - 2007
We examine a foreign firm's choice between exporting and foreign direct investment (FDI) under country-specific cost uncertainty. Unlike exporting, FDI exposes foreign and home firms to common shocks. This results in a correlation of strategies, harming the firms. However, the exposure to common...
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Entkoppeltes Recht? Die Umweltstandards multinationaler Konzerne zwischen Informalität und Verrechtlichung
Herberg, Martin - 2005
Im Zeitalter der Globalisierung werden die Trennlinien zwischen Recht und Nicht-Recht, zwischen legitim/ illegitim …
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The impact of profit taxation on capitalized investment with options to delay and divest
Schneider, Georg; Sureth, Caren - 2010
In entrepreneurial decisions making uncertain future profits often are a main characteristics of real investment opportunities. If investors can react to uncertainty the degree of irreversibility and timing flexibility inherent in the available project should be integrated into the decision...
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