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Entering a foreign market : exports, FDI or strategic alliance?
Morasch, Karl - 2018
The decision over exports vs. foreign direct investment (FDI) is usually discussed in an extension of the so-called Melitz model where firms with heterogeneous costs compete in a monopolistically competitive industry. The present paper starts from a situation where a potential foreign entrant...
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Technological Asymmetries and Strategic Plant Location : The Case of Export-Platform Foreign Direct Investment
Guariglia, Alessandra - 2006
We consider the plant location decision of a multinational corporation (MNC), which has the option to invest in a more or in a less technologically lagging country, and which aims to use its foreign plant as an export-platform. We show that the plant location decision of the MNC depends on...
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Building New Plants or Entering by Acquisition? Firm Heterogeneity, Identification and Entry Barriers
Perez Saiz, Hector - 2012
In many industries firms can enter into new markets either by building a new plant (greenfield entry) or by acquiring an existing incumbent facility. The structural empirical literature on entry has usually ignored acquisitions as an option for entrants. Understanding what drives this decision...
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Globalisation and the provinces of China : the role of domestic versus international trade integration
Melchior, Arne - In: Journal of Chinese economic and business studies 8 (2010) 3, pp. 227-252
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Globalisation, structural change and labour productivity growth in BRICS economy
Mallick, Jagannath - 2015
Globalisation, has intensified the demand preference for quality labour, that embodies more knowledge and competency … trade and FDI are found to have significant impact on the upsurge of labour productivity growth in BRICS, where the …
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Internationalization and technology in MERCOSUR
Álvarez, Isabel; Fischer, Bruno B.; Natera, José Miguel - In: CEPAL review (2013) 109, pp. 41-56
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New transition member states of the European Union : (how) do they respond to current changes in the global economy?
Kunčič, Aljaž; Tkalec, Staša - In: International journal of sustainable economy 8 (2016) 1, pp. 1-17
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Challenges and opportunities of India's enhanced participation in the global economy
Joumard, Isabelle; Arriola, Christine; Dek, Marnix - 2020
, modernising product market regulations, developing skills, and reconsidering barriers to trade and investment. OECD simulations … suggest that India would be a major beneficiary were barriers to trade and investment be reduced multilaterally. In the … absence of a multilateral agreement, the economy would also gain from a unilateral liberalisation of trade and investment …
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Maintaining high employment in Norway
Sila, Urban; Hemmings, Philip J. - 2020
Norway has a well-functioning labour market with high employment and a compressed wage distribution, contributing to low inequality. Norway nevertheless faces challenges from a trend decline in employment rates among the young and prime-age men. Furthermore, immigrants and people with...
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Causal relationship of economic factors with GDP growth of two emerging markets of South Asia : Bangladesh and India
Tabassum, Tanjila - In: Global business & economics review 21 (2019) 6, pp. 798-813
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