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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?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265399
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Should I stay or should I go? A note on employment protection, domestic anchorage, and FDI
Dewit, G.; Holger, G.; Montagna, C. - Department of Economics, National University of Ireland - 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”...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656684
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Employment protection and globalisation in dynamic oligopoly
Dewit, Gerda; Leahy, Dermot; Montagna, Catia - Royal Economic Society - RES - 2003
-stage game with uncertainty it is demonstrated that location is influenced by both flexibility and strategic concerns. We show … provided uncertainty and foreign direct investment costs are low. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022135
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Employment Protection and Globalization in Dynamic Oligopoly
Dewit, Gerda; Leahy, Dermot; Montagna, Catia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
-stage game with uncertainty it is demonstrated that location is influenced by both flexibility and strategic concerns. We show … provided uncertainty and foreign direct investment costs are low. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656238
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012163436
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011939975
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Do Migrants Facilitate Internationalization? A Review of the Literature
Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2018
How migration relates to internationalization has been a prominent question in international economics for a long time and its relevance for policy has increased with the amplified political focus on migration. But the role of migration for internationalization is not as obvious as the standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654439
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Rate of return on foreign investment income and employment labour protection : a panel analysis of thirty OECD countries
Polat, Burçak - In: Cogent economics & finance 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-8
Scholars argue that multinational corporations tend to locate their investments in countries with lower employment protections to avoid potential future exit costs if an unfavourable event occurs. Yet, empirical results are highly inconsistent. The main objective of this study is to examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011877347
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014503043
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Optimal degree of foreign ownership under uncertainty
Bircan, Cagatay - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) - 2014
multi-period model of foreign direct investment with incomplete contracts and uncertainty to analyse the size of equity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010797496