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When is FDI a capital flow?
Marin, Dalia; Schnitzer, Monika - 2006
In this paper we analyze the conditions under which a foreign direct investment (FDI) involves a net capital flow across countries. Frequently, foreign direct investment is financed in the host country without an international capital movement. We develop a model in which the optimal choice of...
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Origin and Concentration : Corporate Ownership, Control and Performance
Hanousek, Jan; Kočenda, Evžen; Svejnar, Jan - 2023
We analyze the effects of different types and concentration of ownership on performance using a population of firms in a model transition economy after mass privatization. Specifications based on first-differences and unusual instrumental variables show that contrary to conventional wisdom, the...
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Tough Love : Do Czech Suppliers Learn from Their Relationships with Multinationals?
Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska; Spatareanu, Mariana - 2009
spill over to domestic industries and increase their productivity. While the empirical studies have cast doubt on the … productivity level. The evidence is suggestive of both high productivity firms having a higher probability of supplying …
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Investments in Modernization, Innovation and Gains in Productivity : Evidence from Firms in the Global Paper Industry
Ghosal, Vivek; Nair-Reichert, Usha - 2015
This paper examines the impact of investments in modernization and innovation on productivity in a sample of firms in … focuses on the impact of R&D and patents on firms’ performance and productivity, we examine data on actual investment … achieved higher productivity, and these estimated quantitative effects are greater than the impact of standard innovation …
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Investments in Modernization, Innovation and Gains in Productivity : Evidence from Firms in the Global Paper Industry
Ghosal, Vivek; Nair-Reichert, Usha - 2015
This paper examines the impact of investments in modernization and innovation on productivity in a sample of firms in … focuses on the impact of R&D and patents on firms’ performance and productivity, we examine data on actual investment … achieved higher productivity, and these estimated quantitative effects are greater than the impact of standard innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014045552
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Anti-migration as a threat to internationalization? : a review of the migration-internationalization literature
Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2018
Does anti-migration sentiment threaten internationalization? One major pro-Brexit argument was that it would enable more control over immigration. The most recent US presidential election also focused on immigration. Anti-migration sentiment could be a threat to internationalization, given that...
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Foreign Direct Investment, Corruption, and Democracy
Mathur, Aparna - 2013
This article is the first to show that foreign investors care about economic freedoms, rather than political freedoms, in making decisions about where to locate capital. Hence more democratic countries may receive less Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows if economic freedoms are not...
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Corporate Taxation and Multinational Activity
Egger, Peter H.; Loretz, Simon; Pfaffermayr, Michael; … - 2021
This paper assesses the impact of corporate taxation on multinational activity. A numerically solvable general equilibrium model of trade and multinational firms is used to incorporate the following components of corporate taxation: parent and host country statutory corporate tax rates,...
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The effect of exchange rate volatility on international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries along "one belt and one road"
Latief, Rashid; Lefen, Lin - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 6 (2018) 4, pp. 1-22
The “One Belt and One Road” (OBOR) project was started by the Chinese government with the aim of achieving sustainable economic development and increasing cooperation with other countries. This project has five major objectives, which include (i) increasing trade flow, (ii) encouraging...
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Spatial interdependencies of FDI locations : a lessening of the tyranny of distance?
Hall, Stephen G.; Petroulas, Pavlos - 2022
Recent theoretical approaches stress the importance of complex integration strategies of multinationals and the interdependence between locations. Up till now little has been done to incorporate the potential cross-country dependencies into the empirical analysis of the determinants and the...
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