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On the determinants of euro area FDI to the United States

Santis, Roberto A. De; Anderton, Robert; Hijzen, Alexander - 2004

The long-run determinants of euro area FDI to the United States during the period 1980-2001 are explained by employing … found to influence euro area FDI to the United States. Moreover, the inclusion of the Tobin's Q enhances the traditional …), and the real exchange rate are statistically significant determinants of euro area FDI to the United States. …

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Trade with central and eastern Europe

Polgár, Éva Katalin; Wörz, Julia - 2010

This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing industries) in 25 EU countries over the period from 1995 to 2005. By applying a cross-country and industry-specific approach, it is possible to control for unobserved heterogeneity at...

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Wage structure effects of international trade

Du Caju, Philip; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan - 2011

In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this paper aims to investigate the impact of...

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Gross job flows and institutions in Europe

Gómez-Salvador, Ramón; Messina, Julián; Vallanti, … - 2004

We examine job flows in the 1990s for a sample of 13 European countries. By using a dataset of continuing firms that covers all sectors, we find firm characteristics to be important determinants of job flows, with smaller and younger firms within services typically having a larger degree of job...

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Did the pattern of aggregate employment growth change in the euro area in the late 1990s?

Mourre, Gilles - 2004

The paper examines whether the pattern of growth in euro area employment seen in the period 1997-2001 differed from that recorded in the past and what could be the reasons for that. First, a standard employment equation is estimated for the euro area as a whole. This shows that the lagged impact...

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Foreign direct investment and international business cycle comovement

Jansen, W. Jos; Stokman, Ad C. J. - 2004

This paper investigates the relationship between bilateral FDI positions and cross-country business cycle correlations … in the period 1982–2001. We find that countries that have comparatively intensive FDI relations also have more … synchronized business cycles during 1995–2001. Before 1995, we also find a positive association between FDI linkages and output …

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Formulary apportionment and group taxation in the European Union: insights from the United States and Canada

Weiner, Joann Martens - Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Steuern und … - 2005

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International taxation and multinational firm location decisions

Barrios, Salvador - 2009

Using a large international firm-level data set, we estimate separate effects of host and parent country taxation on the location decisions of multinational firms. Both types of taxation are estimated to have a negative impact on the location of new foreign subsidiaries. In fact, the impact of...

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Taxation and the quality of institutions : asymmetric effects on FDI

Fatica, Serena - 2010

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Is China climbing up the quality ladder?

Pula, Gabor; Santabárbara, Daniel - 2011

There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the quality content of Chinese exports and to what extent China imposes a threat to the market positions of advanced economies. While China’s export structure is very similar to that of the advanced world, its export unit values are well below...

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