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Exporting and FDI with endogenous productivity
Secrieru, Oana (contributor);  … - 2007
foreign direct investment (FDI) affects firm productivity, when productivity is endogeneous as a function of training. The … main result of our paper is that, with endogeneous productivity, exporting results in lower productivity than does FDI, but … training, higher wages and higher productivity than does production for the home market. A further interesting and unexpected …
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Why do Canadian firms invest and operate abroad? : implications for Canadian exports
Coiteux, Martin; Rizzetto, Patrick; Suchanek, Lena; … - 2014
Canadian foreign direct investment and sales of Canadian multinational firms' operations abroad, particularly in the manufacturing industry and in the United States, have accelerated sharply over the past decade. At the same time, although foreign demand has accelerated following the Great...
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Government corruption and foreign direct investment under the threat of expropriation
Hajzler, Christopher; Rosborough, Jonathan - 2016
Foreign investment is often constrained by two forms of political risk: expropriation and corruption. We examine the role of government corruption in foreign direct investment (FDI) when contracts are not fully transparent and investors face the threat of expropriation. Using a novel dataset on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446183
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From Blind Spots to Hotspots : How Knowledge Services Clusters Develop and Attract Foreign Investment
Manning, Stephan - 2011
This paper explores local and global dynamics underlying the development of knowledge services clusters, which we define as new geographic concentrations of technical talent and service providers offering upstream technical and knowledge-intensive business services to regional and global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133184
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Экспорт прямых инвестиций из России : очерки теории и практики (Direct Investment Outflow from Russia: Essays of the Theory and Practice)...
Pakhomov, Alexander - 2012
Со второй половины прошедшего десятилетия в экономике России возникло относительно новое явление – массированный вывоз прямых инвестиций (сопоставимый с...
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Экспорт Прямых Инвестиций Из России : Очерки Теории и Практики (Direct Investment Outflow from Russia: Essays of the Theory and Practice)...
Pakhomov, Alexander - 2013
Со второй половины прошедшего десятилетия в экономике России воз-никло относительно новое явление – массированный вывоз прямых инвестиций (сопоставимый с...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086173
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Refugees and Foreign Direct Investment : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from U.S. Resettlements
Mayda, Anna Maria - 2020
We exploit the designs of two separate U.S. refugee dispersal policies to provide causal evidence that refugees foster outward FDI to their countries of origin. Drawing upon aggregated individual-level refugee and project-level FDI data, we first leverage the quasi-random distribution of...
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Skilled Migration, FDI and Human Capital Investment
Checchi, Daniele - 2008
It is commonly believed that accumulation of human capital (HC) and availability of physical and financial capitals are among the major determinants of economic growth. In a globalised world, where factors of production are increasingly mobile, the process of domestic accumulation of HC might be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773554
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Immigrants and Foreign Firm Performance
Hernandez, Exequiel - 2019
Studies have demonstrated that foreign firms locate where immigrants from their home countries reside and suggested that doing so can improve performance. We argue that, to properly assess how immigrants impact the performance of co-national firms, research must account for heterogeneity in how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012903017
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Does State Ownership Really Matter? The Dynamic Alignment of China’s Resource Environment and Firm Internationalization Strategies
Ren, Monica - 2019
Recent research suggests that unequal access to home country institutional resources affects firm internationalization strategies. We add to this debate, based on an analysis of state-owned (SOEs) and non-state-owned (NSOEs) Chinese mining firms, by developing a more dynamic and multi-layered...
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