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Information frictions, investment promotion, and multinational production : firm-level evidence
Carballo, Jerónimo; Marra de Artiñano, Ignacio; Volpe … - 2021
While countries make use of a wide range of policies to attract multinational firms, identifying the effect of such policies is difficult. Combining firm-level data on both the location of these firms' foreign affiliates and detailed service-specific information from Costa Rica's investment...
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Multinational production and "soft" industrial policies
Carballo, Jerónimo; Marra de Artiñano, Ignacio; Volpe … - 2020 - This version: January 2020
Multinational production has become increasingly important in recent decades. Countries resort to different industrial policies to influence the geography of this production. In this paper, we focus on a ubiquitous “soft” industrial policy that aims at reducing information barriers -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154635
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Information Frictions, Investment Promotion, and Multinational Production : Firm-Level Evidence
Carballo, Jerónimo; Artiñano, Ignacio Marra; Volpe … - 2021
While countries make use of a wide range of policies to attract multinational firms, identifying the effect of such policies is difficult. Combining firm-level data on both the location of these firms’ foreign affiliates and detailed service-specific information from Costa Rica’s investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229704
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The combined effects of product and geographical diversification on performance : evidence in manufacturing SMEs
Benito-Osorio, Diana; Colino, Alberto; Guerras Martín, … - In: Business research quarterly : BRQ 23 (2020) 2, pp. 91-106
This study explores both the individual impact of geographical diversification and its effect combined with product … diversification on small and medium-sized enterprises' (SMEs) performance. Unlike most prior studies, this study distinguishes between … related and unrelated product diversification. The research setting is a sample of manufacturing SMEs (1994-2014). By using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012225610
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South-South FDI : is it really different?
Gold, Robert; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Seric, Adnan - 2017
productivity growth between Northern and Southern FDI, irrespective of how the latter is defined. We also find that employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820905
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South-South FDI : is it really different?
Görg, Holger; Gold, Robert; Hanley, Aoife; Seric, Adnan - 2017
productivity growth between Northern and Southern FDI, irrespective of how the latter is defined. However, we find that employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011658781
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FDI and Firm Productivity in Host Countries : The Role of Financial Constraints
Han, Wontae; Wang, Jian; Wang, Xiao - 2021
This paper studies the effect of FDI firms' financial advantages on firm productivity in host countries and examines … cutoff productivity than local firms, especially in financially vulnerable sectors. The same mechanism will also lower the … average productivity of FDI firms especially in financially vulnerable sectors, although FDI firms on average are still more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238912
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Productivity and international firm activities : what do we know?
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
mutual links between international activities of firms and productivity. It is written with a view to inform policy makers in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008841664
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Exports, international investment, and plant performance : evidence from a non-parametric test
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2003
This paper compares the performance of purely domestic plants, domestic exporters and domestic multinationals. For our empirical analysis we utilise a non-parametric approach based on the principle of first order stochastic dominance. We find that the distributions for multinationals dominate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439152
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World market access of emerging-market firms : the role of foreign ownership and access to external finance
Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2013
. Applying propensity score matching to control for differences across firms in terms of labor productivity, size, etc., we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009772816