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Chapter 2. Multinational Firms and the Structure of International Trade
Antràs, Pol; Yeaple, Stephen R. - In: Handbook of international economics : Volume 4, (pp. 55-130). 2014
This chapter reviews the state of the international trade literature on multinational firms. This literature addresses three main questions. First, why do some firms operate in more than one country while others do not? Second, what determines in which countries production facilities are...
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The new paradigm of international production : empirical evidence of Spanish offshoring activities
Matías Batalla, David de - 2016
mode of entry. One type of this mode is offshoring which makes easier the relocation of business activity from developed … economies to developing economies. The study of offshoring activities is the focus of this paper, with the data coming from a … multinational firms to be engaged in foreign direct investment via offshoring. …
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Do civil and political repression really boost foreign direct investments?
Harms, Philipp; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2001
Multinational enterprises are often accused to have a preference for investing in countries in which the working populations' civil and political rights are largely disregarded. This paper presents an empirical investigation of the popular political repression boosts FDI hypothesis and arrives...
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Why Does Foreign Direct Investment Go Where It Goes?: New Evidence From African Countries
Anyanwu, John C. - In: Annals of Economics and Finance 13 (2012) 2, pp. 425-462
The central concern of this paper is to respond to the question: why do FDI inflows go where they do in African countries? An understanding of such factors will assist African policymakers to formulate and execute policies for attracting FDI. Our estimation results from cross-country regressions...
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Global production networks, offshore services and the branch-plant syndrome
Kleibert, Jana Maria - In: Regional studies 50 (2016) 12, pp. 1995-2009
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The effects of offshoring on wages : a meta-analysis
Cardoso, Matilde; Neves, Pedro Cunha; Afonso, Oscar; … - In: Review of world economics 157 (2021) 1, pp. 149-179
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The Choice of Market Entry Mode: Greenfield Investment, M&A and Joint Venture
Stähler, Frank; Ryan, Michael; Raff, Horst - 2007
Multinationals may enter a host market by different modes of foreign direct investment (FDI). This paper examines the choice of FDI mode, and shows that the profitability of greenfield investment influences this choice not only directly, but also indirectly since it determines the outside option...
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Does Foreign Direct Investment Replace Home Country Investment? The Effect of European Integration on the Location of Swedish Investment
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Oxelheim, Lars - 1999
The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of European integration on the location of investments by Swedish multinational corporations (MNCs). Evidence is presented about the extent to which European integration has attracted investment by Swedish MNCs, and whether foreign direct...
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FDI and unemployment, a growth perspective
Stepanok, Ignat - 2018
North-South foreign direct investment (FDI) is frequently viewed as a process in which jobs relocate from the North to the South. I build a growth model with two asymmetric trading economies, the North where firms innovate and the South where Northern firms invest to take advantage of lower...
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Cross-border mergers and greenfield foreign direct investment
Stepanok, Ignat - 2010
I present a model of international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI), where FDI is comprised of greenfield FDI and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Working in a monopolistically competitive environment, merging firms do not reduce competition. Mergers are motivated by efficiency gains and...
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