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Types of FDI and determinants of affiliate size : the classification makes the difference
Hecht, Veronika; Moritz, Michael; Noska, Patricia; … - 2016
This paper deals with the measurement of motives for foreign direct investment (FDI). Due to a lack of information …, several indirect measures exist in order to classify multinational firms into the two main types of FDI. While vertical … country and the subsidiary in the target country. The question arises as to how reliable this measure is for identifying FDI …
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Foreign sales strategies of multinational enterprises
Kleinert, Jörn; Toubal, Farid - 2010
analysis of distribution-oriented FDI has, however, received little attention which is at least partly due to the lack of …-oriented FDI is based on the trade-off between fixed and variable costs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301777
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Foreign sales strategies of multinational enterprises
Kleinert, Jörn; Toubal, Farid - 2010
analysis of distribution-oriented FDI has, however, received little attention which is at least partly due to the lack of …-oriented FDI is based on the trade-off between fixed and variable costs. -- Multinational firms ; Wholesale sales ; Discrete choice …
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Host Country Financial Development and Multinational Activity
Bilir, Kamran - 2019
with host-country financial development affecting multinationals' incentives for horizontal, vertical and platform FDI …
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Are US Multinationals Making Rational Offshoring Decisions? A Gravity Model Approach
Gupta, Vrinda - 2010
This paper constructs five indicators that a multinational firm must take into account when deciding the location of its offshore units. These indicators are: human capital; skilled labour cost; quality of infrastructure; business environment; and market size. The indicators are based on over 100...
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Chapter 2. Multinational Firms and the Structure of International Trade
Antràs, Pol; Yeaple, Stephen R. - In: Handbook of international economics : Volume 4, (pp. 55-130). 2014
This chapter reviews the state of the international trade literature on multinational firms. This literature addresses three main questions. First, why do some firms operate in more than one country while others do not? Second, what determines in which countries production facilities are...
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Unobserved tax avoidance and the tax elasticity of FDI
Egger, Peter; Merlo, Valeria; Wamser, Georg - 2014
This paper investigates the tax responsiveness of multinational firms’ investment decisions in foreign countries, distinguishing firms that are able to avoid taxes (avoiders) from those that are not (non-avoiders). From a theoretical point of view, the tax responsiveness of firms crucially...
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Trade and FDI, the proximity-concentration trade-off revisited
Stepanok, Ignat - 2018
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A Structural Model of Export versus Affiliates Production
Kleinert, Jörn; Toubal, Farid - 2005
costs have a negative impact on the decision to engage in FDI. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296335
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Taxes and Location of Foreign Direct Investments : An Empirical Analysis for the European Union Countries
de Santis, Roberta - 2007
FDI inflows in the European Union countries are influenced by the total fiscal wedge on labour more than the corporate tax … immediate) information.The estimated elasticities of FDI inflows to fiscal variables suggest that a high-taxation country might … draw considerable benefits in terms of FDI through a relatively modest tax rate reduction. This means that not necessarily …
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