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Over the period 1980-2007 multinational firms' investment grew four times faster than worldwide GDP. Yet the evidence on whether global diversification is valuable is inconclusive. This paper uses detailed FDI data for 251 UK multinational firms and 4,676 subsidiaries to show that multinational...
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This article tells how a shareholder class action against Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, the largest generic drug maker in the world, ended the practice of hiding individual executive pay figures by companies crosslisted in Israel and the United States. That practice relied on a tenuous reading...
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I show that a tariff policy change that increased trade with China led to a decline in U.S. public listing rates and elevated industry concentration. Consistent with heterogeneous firm models of trade, the shock impeded the entry and performance of small manufacturers but did not adversely...
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originating in Statistics Canada, focusing on both historical and current studies. Chapter 2 discusses the macroeconomic … relevant to ongoing debates over whether the presence of foreign multinationals promotes, or hampers, Canada's industrial … of Canadian-owned multinationals and how their domestic plants compare to foreign-controlled plants operating in Canada …
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This paper examines two potential benefits of foreign-controlled plants in the Canadian manufacturing sector: the superior performance of foreign-controlled plants and their productivity spillovers to domestic plants. The paper finds that foreign-controlled plants are more productive, more...
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