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Global production with export platforms
Tintelnot, Felix - 2014
Most international commerce is carried out by multinational firms, which use their foreign affiliates for the majority of their foreign sales. In this paper, I examine the determinants of multinational firms' location and production decisions and the welfare implications of multinational...
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The Effects of Trading Blocs on U.S. Outward FDI Activity : The Role of Extended Market Size
Im, Hyejoon - 2016
I use panel data of sales by the foreign subsidiaries of the U.S. MNCs to examine whether trading blocs create more or less FDI and the impacts on FDI of the extended market size created by forming blocs. By employing a region-fixed effects model, I find that countries forming trading blocs...
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Do US Firms Pay Less Tax than Their European Peers? On Firm Characteristics, Profit Shifting Opportunities, and Tax Legislation as Determinants of Tax Differentials
Overesch, Michael - 2018
Using pairs of similar US and European firms listed on the S&P500 or StoxxEurope600, we examine effective tax differentials between US multinational corporations (MNCs) and their European peers. We show that statutory tax rates and profit shifting opportunities are important determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918059
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Do U.S. Multinationals Engage in Sequential Choice? Evidence from New Manufacturing Operations in Europe
Mataloni, Raymond J. - 2010
Despite an extensive literature on the determinants of the foreign location choices by multinational companies, researchers have only recently begun to systematically examine how these companies form their location consideration sets. When considering new foreign locations, do firms evaluate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148582
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Do US firms pay less tax than their European peers? : on firm characteristics, profit shifting opportunities, and tax legislation as determinants of tax differentials
Overesch, Michael; Schenkelberg, Sabine; Wamser, Georg - 2018 - This version: March 17, 2018
Using pairs of similar US and European firms listed on the S&P500 or StoxxEurope600, we examine effective tax differentials between US multinational corporations (MNCs) and their European peers. We show that statutory tax rates and profit shifting opportunities are important determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011814838
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Measuring Multinationals' R&D Activities in China on the Basis of a Patent Database : Comparing European, Japanese and US Firms
Motohashi, Kazuyuki - 2015
Using an internationally linked patent database, this paper compares the types of R&D activities undertaken by multinationals in China by home country and industry. In China, multinationals recently began investing in R&D, mainly in the areas of product and manufacturing process development....
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U.S. Multinational Affiliate Exports from Developing Countries
Shatz, Howard J. - 2004
Globalization of production is one of the dominant issues of the international economy. This paper explores how country characteristics influence the choice of developing country export bases by US multinationals. It separately analyses two types of exports by affiliates, exports to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014029226
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U.S. Multinational Affiliate Exports from Developing Countries
Shatz, Howard J. - 2004
Globalization of production is one of the dominant issues of the international economy. This paper explores how country characteristics influence the choice of developing country export bases by U.S. multinationals. It separately analyzes two types of exports, exports to the headquarters country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014086213
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Undercover Policing and the Shifting Terms of Scholarly Debate : The United States and Europe in Counterpoint
Ross, Jacqueline E. - 2008
Among investigative tactics, undercover policing is unique in the extent to which it allows the police to shape the … tradition of scholarship in criminal law treats police infiltration as a problem of government law-breaking. In France, a … exploration of new means for distributing responsibility among complementary institutional actors like police, prosecutors, and …
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The police and the community
Garmire, Bernard L. - 1972
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