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Tax incentives and the location of FDI: evidence from a panel of German multinationals
Buettner, Thiess; Ruf, Martin - 2005
cross-border location decisions. In accordance with Devereux and Griffith (1998) we find that the marginal tax rate has no … predictive power for location decisions whereas effective average and statutory tax rates exert significant effects. In … particular, the statutory tax rate has strong predictive power for the likelihood of direct investment holdings at a location …
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Tax incentives and the location of FDI: evidence from a panel of German multinationals
Buettner, Thiess; Ruf, Martin - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2005
cross-border location decisions. In accordance with Devereux and Griffith (1998) we find that the marginal tax rate has no … predictive power for location decisions whereas effective average and statutory tax rates exert significant effects. In … particular, the statutory tax rate has strong predictive power for the likelihood of direct investment holdings at a location …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083194
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FDI and the Process of European Integration A Brief Overview
Soci, A. - In: Journal of Economic Integration 18 (2003), pp. 642-660
The object of this short paper is to focus on one of the many aspects of FDI - the one related to the location of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009318900
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Corporate taxes and the location of FDI in Europe using firm-level data
Silva, Tomas; Lagoa, Sergio - Gabinete de Estratégia e Estudos (GEE), Ministério da … - 2011
how corporate taxes affect the location of FDI in Europe. Firm-level data is used to estimate a conditional logit model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009392209
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Cross-Border Trade and FDI in Services
Fillat-Castejon, Carmen; Francois, Joseph Francis; … - 2008
Working with a panel dataset of of OECD countries over the decade 1994-2004, we examine linkages between cross-border trade and FDI in the service sectors. We first develop a consistent analytical framework for the application of the gravity model jointly to services trade and commercial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294854
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Political Risk, Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment
Hefeker, Carsten; Busse, Matthias - 2005
The paper explores the linkages between political risk, institutions and foreign direct investment inflows. Using different econometric techniques for a data sample of 83 developing countries and the period 1984 to 2003, we identify those indicators that matter most for the activities of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295448
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Democracy and FDI
Busse, Matthias - 2003
Many believe that multinational enterprises insensitively ignore political rights and civil liberties in the countries of their investments. Frequently, non-governmental organisations accuse multinationals of fostering repressive regimes in developing countries and consider foreign direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295473
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Exports versus FDI in German manufacturing: firm performance and participation in international markets
Arnold, Jens Matthias; Hussinger, Katrin - 2006
This paper tests some of the predictions of recent advances in trade theory that have focused on different trade patterns of firms within the same sector. Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2005) develop a model in which innate productivity differences between firms determine the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295792
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Does it Make a Difference? Comparing Growth Effects of European and North American FDI in Latin America
Tondl, Gabriele; Prüfer, Patricia - 2007
FDI from the European Union (EU) ranks before FDI from North America (NA) in some of the Latin American countries. We investigate the impact of EU- versus NA-FDI on the growth rate including about 50 controls. Country specific effects and parameter heterogeneity are incorporated in our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296038
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Exports versus FDI in German Manufacturing: Firm Performance and Participation in International Markets
Arnold, Jens Matthias; Hussinger, Katrin - 2005
This paper tests some of the predictions of recent advances in trade theory that have focused on different trade patterns of firms within the same sector. Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2005) develop a model in which innate productivity differences between firms determine the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297485