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Should I stay or should I go? A note on employment protection, domestic anchorage, and FDI

Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Montagna, Catia - 2003

This paper examines how employment protection legislation affects location decisions of multinationals. Based on a simple theoretical framework, we estimate an empirical model, using OECD-data on bilateral FDI-flows and employment protection indices. We find that, while an ?unfavourable?...

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Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Note on Employment Protection, Domestic Anchorage, and FDI

Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Montagna, Catia - 2021

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Employment protection and firm relocation : theory and evidence

Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Temouri, Yama - 2018

We examine the determinants of the decision to relocate activities abroad for firms located in OECD countries. We argue that particular firm-specific features play a crucial role for the link between employment protection and relocation. Stricter employment protection laws over time in the...

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Employment protection and firm relocation : theory and evidence

Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Temouri, Yama - 2018

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Employment protection and firm relocation : theory and evidence

Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Temouri, Yama - 2018

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Environmental risk and growth in foreign direct investment : is the composition of FDI in sub-Saharan Africa a speculative type?

Ohemeng, Williams; Ofori-Boateng, Kenneth; Agyapong, … - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-25

The study explores the influence of environmental risk (macroeconomic uncertainty and environmental sustainability risk … outcomes show that higher level of uncertainty in GDP growth, inflation uncertainty and financial development volatility induce … more FDI inflows whilst uncertainty in exchange rate adversely impacts FDI inflows in SSA. The paper highlights how …

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Multinational firms' organisational dynamics : competition intensity and the ownership decision under uncertainty

Navarro, Leandro Gastón - 2021

I analyse firms organisational choices when they face uncertainty about institutional conditions in foreign locations …

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Asymmetric Labor Markets, Southern Wages, and the Location of Firms

Naghavi, Alireza - 2005

This paper studies the behavior of firms towards weak labor rights in developing countries (South). A less than perfectly elastic labor supply in the South gives firms oligopsonistic power tempting them to strategically reduce output to cut wages. In an open economy, competitors operating in...

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Expropriation Risk and Technology

Opp, Marcus M. - 2011

This paper develops a unified framework to analyze the dynamics of firm investment in countries with poor legal enforcement. The firm's technology edge over the government generates endogenous property rights. Industry variation in the technology gap predicts a sectoral pecking order of...

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The Proximity-Concentration Trade-off under Country and Industry Uncertainty

Khotamov, Navruz - 2022

uncertainty. The uncertainty in this study relates to the stochastic properties of cross-country business cycle co …-movement, aggregate country-specific uncertainty, and disaggregated industry-specific uncertainty. I construct a theoretical model that … that a market with higher industry uncertainty is less likely to be served by foreign affiliates. Using detailed industry …

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