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Escaping to the east? : relocation of business activities to and from Hungary, 2003 - 2011

Hunya, Magdolna Sass-Gábor - 2014

While the increased frequency of relocation of productive capacities to lower wage countries from developed economies … relocation have been widely neglected. Hungary, together with other new EU member countries, is one of the net beneficiary … countries of relocation especially from the developed EU-15 countries. Macro-data can be used only to a limited extent to …

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Regulation, red tape and location choices of top R&D investors

Ciriaci, Daria; Grassano, Nicola; Vezzani, Antonio - 2016

This paper investigates how product and labour market regulations and red tape affect the way in which top corporate research and development (R&D) investors worldwide organise their cross-border operations. The decision about where a company locates its international subsidiaries is modelled...

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Multinational location decisions and the impact on labour markets

Gaston, Noel G.; Nelson, Douglas R. - 2001

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Multinational location decisions and the impact on labour markets

Gaston, Noel G.; Nelson, Douglas R. - 2001

Foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown far more rapidly than trade during the last two decades. As with the other prominent features of globalisation, FDI is controversial. The impact of FDI on labour markets has been of growing concern, particularly, for source countries. The deterioration...

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Multinational firms and global innovation

Gumpert, Anna; Manova, Kalina; Rujan, Cristina; … - 2025

This paper provides an integrated analysis of multinational companies’ global production and innovation. We establish novel stylized facts using rich data on the network of production affiliates and patent activity of German multinationals. We rationalize these facts with a heterogeneous-firm...

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Employment Protection and Globalisation in Dynamic Oligopoly

Dewit, Gerda; Leahy, Dermot; Montagna, Catia - 2003

We construct a model in which oligopolistic firms decide where to locate. Firms choose to locate either in a country where employment protection implies costly output adjustments or in one without adjustment costs. Using a two-period three-stage game with uncertainty it is demonstrated that...

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Global production with export platforms

Tintelnot, Felix - 2014

Most international commerce is carried out by multinational firms, which use their foreign affiliates for the majority of their foreign sales. In this paper, I examine the determinants of multinational firms' location and production decisions and the welfare implications of multinational...

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Organization of multinational activities and ownership structure

Mugele, Christian; Schnitzer, Monika - 2006

We develop a model in which multinational investors decide about the modes of organization, the locations of production, and the markets to be served. Foreign investments are driven by market-seeking and cost-reducing motives. We further assume that investors face costs of control that vary...

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Offshoring to Promote the Internationalization of Family Firms

Merino, Fernando - 2018

This paper analyses the impact of sourcing abroad on exporting in the case of Spanish manufacturing firms that are family-owned. Sourcing abroad can be a channel that places the firm in a better position to export, not only because it increases the productivity of the firm, but also because it...

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Relocation from China (with Chinese characteristics)

Garred, Jason; Yuan, Song - 2024

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