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relationship between the productivity of the host cities and FDI spillovers. The main findings are as follows. First, significant … positive impacts of FDI on the local city's growth exist and increase over time, while spatial spillovers of FDI on growth … growth. Third, inclusion of FDI raises the speed of conditional convergence of economic growth in YRD and PRD (for the case …
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This paper explores the role of FDI-spillover prevention costs in the strategic choice for a MNE of a developed country … such as Japan about whether it perform FDI to an emerging economy such as Russia and China and about a degree of FDI …, and also shows how endogenizing spillovers affect the home firm fs decision on plant location. In the m-FDI …
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This article deals with the domestic location of German multinational firms which have affiliates in the Czech Republic. Due to the common border the Czech Republic represents an attractive target country for both vertical and horizontal direct investments. In the year 2009 the sum of direct and...
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This paper analyses whether the severe demographic change in Germany causes its high current account surpluses. An ageing population both increases the supply and lowers demand of capital in an economy. Due to a longer life span individuals save more. Fewer workers reduce the optimal capital...
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Multinational firms transfer to their foreign affiliates superior technology, leading to higher productivity of their workers and therefore to higher wages, or so the often cited rent-sharing theory of multinational firms explains. But studies have shown that oftentimes, this results not from...
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This paper analyzes the behavior of firm(s) serving its products to two countries having different consumers in terms of their valuation of product quality. The home-market of firm(s) is a developed country with small population but high valuation of product quality, while the foreign is a...
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parameters. As an application, this paper discusses the firm's decision on entry in a foreign market either by exports or FDI …
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We propose a geoadditive negative binomial model (Geo-NB-GAM) for regional count data which allows us to simultaneously address some important methodological issues, such as spatial clustering, nonlinearities and overdispersion. We apply this model to study location determinants of inward...
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