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Asymmetric Labor Markets and the Location of Firms - Are Multinationals Attracted to Weak Labor Standards?
Naghavi, Alireza - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2003
standards enhances Southern welfare unambiguously. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005490153
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Competing back for foreign direct investment
Zhai, Weifeng - In: Economic Modelling 39 (2014) C, pp. 146-150
. Second, as a result, policy competition does not change regional welfare. Lastly, the equilibrium policy could be either a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010782000
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The Impact of Unilateral Climate Policy with Endogenous Plant Location and Market Size Asymmetry
Sanna-Randaccio, Francesca; Sestini, Roberta - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
-term. The welfare implications of unilateral environmental measures are assessed considering global industrial pollution and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642150
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Foreign Direct Investment Modes and Local Backward Linkages
Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Pavlou, Apostolis - CESifo - 2014
-border acquisition reduces welfare, greenfield investment can be welfare-improving. These results suggest that policy should distinguish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877755
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Tacit Collusion over Foreign Direct Investment under Oligopoly
Collie, David - Economics Section, Cardiff Business School - 2009
switch from exporting to undertaking FDI when trade costs are relatively high. Also, collusion over FDI may increase welfare. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005256688
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Tax Competition for Foreign Direct Investments and the Nature of the Incumbent Firm
Amerighi, Oscar; De Feo, Giuseppe - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Aziendali, … - 2012
benefits from FDI if the domestic firm is a public welfare-maximizing firm, while its welfare may decrease when it is a private … welfare-maximizer location. Finally, an efficiency-enhancing role of policy competition may only arise when the domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651058
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Location of Foreign Direct Investment in Vertically Related Markets
Milliou, Chrysovalantou - CESifo - 2013
less developed, FDI is always welfare-enhancing. …
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Quality-Improving R&D, Trade Barriers, and Foreign Direct Investment
Heinrich, Jeffrey - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 1997
This investigation pits Cournot oligopolists against each other in a model of quality and R&D choice. A firm gains a strategic advantage over its rival when it is able to sell in more countries due to the jointness of quality improvements across production locations. Trade barriers that restrict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824190
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Privatization and policy competition for FDI
Oscar, AMERIGHI; Giuseppe, DE FEO - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2008
is lower than the welfare-maximizing one. The drawback is that social welfare generally decreases. We also investigate … with an instrument which can be used either to reduce the negative impact on welfare of an FDI-attracting privatization or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004984865
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Subsidy competition and the role of firm ownership
Mittermaier, Ferdinand - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper addresses the role that foreign vs. domestic ownership of companies plays for governments in asymmetric countries’ competition for a multinational’s subsidiary. I argue that equilibrium subsidies as well as a foreign investor’s location decision in policy competition between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005163002