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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...
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Reading the footprints : how foreign investors shape countries' participation in global value chains
Buelens, Christian; Tirpák, Marcel - 2017
-constructed dataset we find a positive association between bilateral FDI stock and both gross bilateral trade and the bilateral import … global perspective stand out both in terms of degree of global value chain-participation and size of inward FDI stock …
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The determinants of Foreign Direct Investment : do statutory restrictions matter?
Mistura, Fernando; Roulet, Caroline - 2019
with only occasional relapses. Yet, FDI liberalisation remains an unfinished agenda in various parts of the world and … FDI positions and cross-border M&A activity to FDI restrictions as measured by the OECD FDI Regulatory Restrictiveness … Index. Results suggest that reforms liberalising FDI restrictions by about 10% as measured by the Index could increase …
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Minimum global tax : winners and losers in the race for mergers and acquisitions
Amendolagine, Vito; Bruno, Randolph; Cipollina, Maria; … - 2023
This study aims to quantify the impact of the global minimum corporate tax rate - a pillar of the OECD's reform of international taxation - on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) involving large multinational enterprises (MNEs). First, the influence of differences in capital taxation on...
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Participation in global value chains and M&A flows
Ciani, Andrea; Gregori, Wildmer Daniel - 2022
This study investigates to which extent firms operating in sectors more integrated into Global Value Chains (GVC) are more likely to be involved in cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) flows. We focus on firms acquired in the EU27 during the period 2008-2020 employing a gravity model....
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Economic Returns from Social and Political Globalization : Does Signaling Help Developing and Transition Countries to Attract Foreign Direct Investment?
Parakkal, Raju - 2019
investments (FDI), and hence, on the amount of FDI that it receives. My research is motivated by insights from signaling theory … FDI. While social globalization helps attract FDI through both strategic and non-strategic signaling, the same is true for … political globalization only with strategic signaling and not with non-strategic signaling. Given the importance of FDI to …
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Firm internationalization and cost of equity : evidence from China
Yang, Jianfa; Cai, Guilong; Zheng, Guojiang; Gu, Qiankun - In: China journal of accounting research : CJAR 15 (2022) 2, pp. 1-23
This paper examines the relationship between firm internationalization and cost of equity. We find that firms with a higher degree of international operations have a significantly lower cost of equity, which is more pronounced for firms in provinces with a weak institutional environment or firms...
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Regions and Super-Regions in Economic Development : Global Demarcations in the Impact of Foreign Aid on Foreign Investment
Nicholson, Michael W. - 2013
Global demarcations exist between development aid and foreign direct investment. Rigorous statistical analysis that contrasts the relative homogeneous and heterogeneous influences of time-series panel data allows regions in the developing world to define themselves endogenously. The results...
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Globalization and Innovation in Emerging Markets
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2021
Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging market economies to innovate and improve their competitive position. Using recent data on firms in 27 transition economies, we test for the effects of globalization through the impact of increased competition and...
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Distance-related barriers and the internationalisation of Finnish MNES
Lundan, Sarianna M. - 2009
In an integrated global economy, multinational enterprises (MNEs) have more opportunities than ever to reap the benefits of broader markets and more possibilities for an extensive division of labour between different locations. In spite of this, the evidence on the spread of the activities of...
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