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This paper expands entry mode literature by referring to multiple modes exerted in different value chain activities within and across host markets, rather than to a single entry mode at the host market level. Scale of operations and knowledge intensity are argued to affect firms' entry mode...
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The future patterns of foreign direct investment (FDI) are important inputs for policymakers, even more so during … significant ongoing empirical research on the most appropriate tool for forecasting FDI inflows. This paper aims to fill this gap … by proposing an approach to forecasting global FDI inflows based on panel econometric techniques – namely the generalized …
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This paper uses bilateral data on 420 merchandise trade flows between 21 industrial countries are used to estimate standard trade equations. The data set of over 11,000 observations allows the underlying elasticities to be estimated with considerable precision. Remarkably, a single specification...
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Using a long-panel dataset of Japanese firms that contains firm-level sales forecasts, we provide evidence on firm-level uncertainty and imperfect information over their life cycle. We find that firms make non-negligible and positively correlated forecast errors. However, they make more precise...
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We investigate whether value-relevant foreign information only gradually dilutes into stock prices of multinational firms worldwide. Using an international sample of firms from 22 developed countries, we find that a portfolio strategy based on firms' foreign sales information yields future...
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Die vorliegende Dissertation umfasst drei empirische Essays, welche die Prognostizierbarkeit von Aktienrenditen in internationalen Aktienmärkten untersuchen. Der Fokus liegt hierbei auf der Renditeprognostizierbarkeit durch Informationsfriktionen in Finanzmärkten. Die Essays in dieser...
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We examine the quantitative predictions of heterogeneous firm models à la Melitz (2003) in the context of the Canada - US Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA) of 1989. We compute predicted increases in trade flows and measured productivity across a range of standard models and compare them to the...
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In this paper we develop an analytically solvable and structurally estimable economic geography model and apply it to predict migration flows for the period following the CEE’s integration with the EU. The main innovation of our approach is that it endogenises both explanatory variables and...
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