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We explore the effect of foreign direct investment on economic growth in developing countries, distinguishing between mergers and acquisitions ("M&As") and "greenfield" investment. A simple model captures the key difference between the two types of FDI: unlike greenfield investment, M&As partly...
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In this study, we use a cross-sectionally correlated and timewise autoregressive model and panel data for the period 1966-2000 to investigate human development as a measure of host country absorptive capacity in 30 developed and developing countries. The results suggest that technology diffusion...
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This paper investigates the relationship between education and the location of multinational affiliates. It finds that U.S. multinationals seek production locations with high levels of education rather than with uneducated labor. Furthermore, the education effect can be separated from the...
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characteristics influence the choice of developing country export bases by US multinationals. It separately analyses two types of … exports by affiliates, exports to the headquarters country and exports to the rest of the world. The main findings are that … policies toward multinationals are related to production of rest-of-world exports. Labor costs and taxes, traditional …
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