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The Threshold Effects of Global Economic Uncertainty on Foreign Direct Investment
Lagos, Konstantinos; Wang, Yuan - 2022
This paper investigates the role of global economic uncertainty in Dunning’s investment development path (IDP … countries’ net outward investment (NOI) follows a non-linear pattern even after incorporating global economic uncertainty into … the analysis. At the same time, global economic uncertainty has non-linear effects on NOI subject to the level of economic …
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Employment Protection and Globalisation in Dynamic Oligopoly
Dewit, Gerda; Leahy, Dermot; Montagna, Catia - 2003
-stage game with uncertainty it is demonstrated that location is influenced by both flexibility and strategic concerns. We show … provided uncertainty and foreign direct investment costs are low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084863
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Anti-migration as a threat to internationalization? : a review of the migration-internationalization literature
Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2018
Does anti-migration sentiment threaten internationalization? One major pro-Brexit argument was that it would enable more control over immigration. The most recent US presidential election also focused on immigration. Anti-migration sentiment could be a threat to internationalization, given that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012163436
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Foreign Direct Investment, Global Value Chains, and Labor Rights : No Race-to-the-Bottom?
McLaren, John; Im, Hyejoon - 2021
In a stylized model of multinational firms choosing host locations for their global value chains, host-country governments choose the strength of collective-bargaining rights that allow their workers to receive a share of the resulting quasi-rents. Each government must trade off the direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210908
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011983823
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Global Supply Chain Sustainability : The Role of Non-Governmental Enforcement Mechanisms
Limardi, Michela - 2022
voluntary standards defined by the NGOs, or by the MNEs themselves. This leads to an uncertainty in environmental and social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081782
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Industrial relations at centre stage : efficiency, equity and voice in the governance of global labour standards
Haipeter, Thomas; Helfen, Markus; Kirsch, Anja; … - In: Industrielle Beziehungen : Zeitschrift für Arbeit, … 28 (2021) 2, pp. 148-171
Considering the persistent violation of labour rights, questions arise as to the effectiveness of policy instruments regarding the governance of global labour standards. We adopt an industrial relations perspective to compare three broad categories of policy instruments: state-centred...
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International Risk Sharing and Globalization
Pierucci, Eleonora - 2012
The main research question of this empirical work is whether or not globalization, in its various forms, has had an impact upon international risk sharing. The empirical literature so far has only investigated on one aspect of globalization: economic and financial integration. By decomposing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112638
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Global Uncertainty and the Global Economy : Decomposing the Impact of Uncertainty Shocks
Kang, Wensheng - 2016
We constructed a new index of global uncertainty using the first principal component of the stock market volatility for … the largest 15 economies. We evaluate the impact of global uncertainty on the global economy using the new global database … from Global Economic Indicators (DGEI), Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Global uncertainty shocks are less frequent than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988088
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Global Risks and Collective Action Failures : What Can the International Community Do?
Otker-Robe, Inci - 2014
What do climate change, global financial crises, pandemics, and fragility and conflict have in common? They are all examples of global risks that can cross geographical and generational boundaries and whose mismanagement can reverse gains in development and jeopardize the well-being of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043705