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Power Relationships Along the Value Chain : Multinational Firms, Global Buyers and Performance of Local Suppliers
Pietrobelli, Carlo; Saliola, Federica - 2010
relationships (the governance) among the various actors involved in these activities and their implications for development. The … recent literature on global value chains and their governance takes this element explicitly into account, and we explore it … quantitative measure of their governance, which takes into account different levels and types of buyer involvement with supplier …
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Cross-border and foreign-affiliate sales of services: Evidence from German micro-data
Kelle, Markus; Kleinert, Jörn; Raff, Horst; Toubal, Farid - 2012
We merge German balance-of-payments and foreign-affiliate-trade statistics to obtain data about trade in commercial services at the firm level. We use these data to study export market participation and the choice of export mode: cross-border versus foreign affiliate sales. We find that for...
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Foreign sales strategies of multinational enterprises
Kleinert, Jörn; Toubal, Farid - 2010
The business literature has long recognized the importance of multinationals’ distribution networks. The empirical analysis of distribution-oriented FDI has, however, received little attention which is at least partly due to the lack of appropriate data. We outline a slightly modified version...
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Taxes and Location of Foreign Direct Investments : An Empirical Analysis for the European Union Countries
de Santis, Roberta - 2007
This paper aims at verifying the impact of fiscal variables in the multinational firms' localisation choices within the European Union Member States. In particular, the sensitivity of bilateral foreign direct investments towards EU member countries to the receiving country's fiscal...
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Host Country Financial Development and Multinational Activity
Bilir, Kamran - 2019
This paper evaluates the influence of host-country financial conditions on the global operations of multinational firms. Using detailed U.S. data, we establish that financial development in a country is associated with relatively more entry by multinational affiliates, as well as with higher...
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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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Trade and FDI, the proximity-concentration trade-off revisited
Stepanok, Ignat - 2018
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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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FDI and Growth : What Cross-Country Industry Data Say
Cipollina, Maria - 2012
The theoretical literature has discussed different channels through which foreign direct investments (FDI) promote host country's economic growth, but empirical analyses have so far been inconclusive. In this paper we provide evidence that FDI have a positive and statistically significant growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113327
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FDI and Growth : What Cross-Country Industry Data Say
Cipollina, Maria - 2011
The theoretical literature has discussed different channels through which foreign direct investments (FDI) promote host country's economic growth, but empirical analyses have so far been inconclusive. In this paper we provide evidence that FDI have a positive and statistically significant growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125437