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This paper examines whether local firms benefit from the presence of foreign-owned firms in three Irish market-services sectors between 2001 and 2007. I investigate whether domestic firms differ in their ability to benefit from foreign presence using three different measures of absorptive...
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This paper is unique in testing the importance of the foreign ownership definition when estimating productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) to domestic firms; a crucial aspect in countries with a widespread use of holding companies. In addition, it moves beyond the standard...
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welfare-maximizer location. Finally, an efficiency-enhancing role of policy competition may only arise when the domestic …
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The effects of ISO 9000 diffusion on trade and FDI have gone understudied. We employ panel data reported by OECD nations over the 1995-2002 period to estimate the impact of ISO adoptions on country-pair economic relations. We find ISO diffusion to have no effect in developed nations, but to...
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When countries compete for the location of a new multinational plant they need to be aware of the profit shifting opportunities this new plant creates for the global multinational firm. By modelling explicitly the multinational's intra-firm transactions, we show that the home market advantage...
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Current efforts to explain the implications of China’s growing economic attractiveness for development in other regions provide a framework that distinguishes between complimentary and competitive impact. From the perspective of competitive impact analysis its direct trade related...
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competitiveness. This chapter first examines evidence that domestic and foreign firms respond differently to domestic market …
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Purpose – This study's the ultimate goal is to analyze competitiveness improvement on multinational enterprises as … firstly providing which factors are to strengthen or weaken competitiveness, secondly investigating if hypotheses development …' management performance and competitiveness.Findings – Through proceeding empirical analysis study, we found out that technology …
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competitiveness of those industries, including through greater competition among domestic and foreign firms …
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In this paper an index of financial competitiveness is calculated that corresponds to the market-to-book ratio of … inward FDI stocks. For a panel of five advanced economies from 1980 to 2006 it is shown that price competitiveness, stable …-Saxon legislation also play a role. Financial competitiveness in turn encourages FDI inflows whereas it benefits fixed investment …
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