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What global fragmentation means for the WTO : Article XXIV, behind-the-border concessions, and a new case for WTO limits on investment incentives
Blanchard, Emily J. - 2014 - Manuscript date: December 19, 2013
The rapid rise in global fragmentation - foreign investment, global supply chains, and 'production sharing' - is fundamentally reshaping the multilateral trading system. This paper uses a simple economic modeling framework to understand how the global fragmentation phenomenon may reshape the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010240627
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Investment Treaties and the Globalisation of State Capitalism : Opportunities and Constraints for Host States
Skovgaard Poulsen, Lauge N. - 2012
The growing stock of foreign investments by sovereign wealth funds and state-owned enterprises poses regulatory challenges to the international investment regime. With arbitrators seemingly keen on expanding the jurisdictional scope of investment treaty arbitration to cover a wide range of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106999
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Evaluating Opportunities of Vietnam to Participate in the Global Value Chains of U.S's Multinational Corporations
Nguyen, Khoi - 2014
The global value chains (GVCs) obviously associated with the role of Multinational Corporations (MNCs). MNCs are the main entities which create global value chains by building up linkages between the stages of a chain in different countries such as plant construction, research, product design,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064760
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Firms and Foreign Markets : Internationalization Activities and Attitudes Toward Foreign Economic Policies
Plouffe, Michael - 2018
identify patterns in a range of internationalization activities - direct and indirect importing/exporting, offshoring, and FDI … foreign economic policies including monetary policy, inward FDI, and temporary immigration. The results generate insights for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940396
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Manufacturing Discontent : National Institutions, Multinational Firm Strategies, and Anti-Globalization Backlash in Advanced Economies
Butzbach, Olivier - 2020
There is mounting evidence of a widespread popular backlash against globalization in advanced economies, which can hurt multinational companies' (MNCs) interests. In this paper we argue that MNCs are both ‘culprits' and ‘victims' of backlash against globalization. Building on the comparative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012845573
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Can multinationals withstand growing trade barriers?
Ghodsi, Mahdi; Vujanović, Nina; Landesmann, Michael - 2024
Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are increasingly dealing with challenges shaped by the new geopolitical and trade environments. Besides traditional tariffs, exporting firms need to comply with regulatory non-tariff measures (NTMs) in the form of technical barriers to trade (TBTs) and sanitary...
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Functional specialisation in EU value chains : methods for identifying EU countries' roles in international production networks
Kordalska, Aleksandra; Olczyk, Magdalena; Stöllinger, Roman - 2022
flows and one based on FDI flows - detailed profiles of the functional specialisations of EU member states are identified …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013359012
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Why do firms invest in the Baltic Sea Region
Kotilainen, Markku; Nikula, Nuutti - 2010
have investigated the factors af-fecting FDI in the Baltic Sea Region in three ways. First, we have studied the factors … affecting FDI on the basis of the existing theoretical and empirical literature. Secondly, we have studied the characteristics … of the existing FDI in the Baltic Sea Region. Thirdly, we have researched the investment motives through two firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702157
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Where do MNEs expand production : location choices of the pharmaceutical industry in Europe after 1992
Ruane, Frances P. (contributor); Zhang, Xiaheng (contributor) - 2007
; discrete choice models ; European integration ; FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003564238
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Tax rate and tax base competition for foreign direct investment
Egger, Peter; Raff, Horst - 2011
countries over the last decades are consistent with tougher international competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). To … make this point we develop a model in which governments compete for FDI using corporate tax rates and tax bases. The model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302814