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Market Dynamics in Supply Chains: The Impact of Globalisation and Consolidation on Food Companies' Mark-Ups

Kaditi, Eleni A. - 2011

This paper examines whether ownership and increased competitive pressure affect foodretailers’ market power, analysing whether all actors involved in the food supply chaindeviate from the pricing behaviour that exists under perfect competition. A methodproposed by Roeger (1995) is used to...

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Corruption and Cross-Border Investment: Firm-Level Evidence

Smarzynska, Beata K.; Wei, Shang-Jin - 2002

that corruption reduces inward FDI and shifts the ownership structure towards joint ventures. Technologically more advanced …

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Foreign Ownership and Profitability: Property Rights, Strategic Control and Corporate Performance in Indian Industry

Chhibber, Pradeep K.; Majumdar, Sumit K. - 1997

This study examines the influence of foreign ownership on the performance of fmtis operating in India. Foreign ownership is categorized according to the control exercisable at different levels of ownership. These categories are, in turn, determined by the institutional structure of the Indian...

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Corporate Taxation and International Competition

Hines, James R. Jr. - 2005

Countries around the world continue to tax corporate income at significant rates despite downward pressures from international competition. Average statutory corporate income tax rates fell from 46% in 1982 to 33% in 1999, though tax bases simultaneously broadened, as a result of which average...

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Capital Controls, Liberalizations, and Foreign Direct Investment

Foley, C. Fritz - 2004

This paper evaluates the impact of capital controls and their liberalization on the activities of U.S. multinational firms. These firms attempt to circumvent capital controls by reducing reported local profitability and increasing the frequency of dividend repatriations. As a result, the...

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Foreign direct investment and the equity home bias puzzle

Blank, Sven; Hoffmann, Mathias; Roth, Moritz Alexander - 2020

(FDI), we find that the optimal equity holdings of agents are biased towards domestic firms. Our finding indicates that …

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The spatial and sectoral distribution of multinational activities in Eastern Europe

Farid Toubal - 2004

important since the stock of the European FDI in the transition countries of Eastern Europe has strongly increased during the … nineties. It reaches 83% of the total stock of FDI in Czech Republic, and more than 50% of total stock of FDI in Romania. There … analyzed in this doctoral thesis. The aim is to study the spatial and industrial distribution of FDI in the new European Unions …

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Heterogeneous firms and trade costs: a reading of French access to European agro-food market

Chevassus-Lozza, Emmanuelle; Latouche, Karine - 2008

This article offers a new reading ofintra-European trade based on recent developments innew international economics (Melitz, 2003; Chaney,2008). These models take the heterogeneity of firmsinto account and offer a micro-economic analysis ofthe process of selection at work for firms enteringmarkets....

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Essays on Patterns of International Trade.

Kamata, Isao - 2008

This dissertation studies the roles of comparative advantage, monopolistic competition, and firm-level heterogeneity in international trade.The first essay investigates cross-country and cross-industry variation in the fractions of exporters among domestic firms. The paper presents a model of an...

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Firms’ Exporting Behavior under Quality Constraints

Hallak, Juan Carlos; Sivadasan, Jagadeesh - 2009

We develop a model of international trade with export quality requirements and two dimensions of firm heterogeneity. In addition to "productivity", firms are also heterogeneous in their "caliber" — the ability to produce quality using fewer fixed inputs. Compared to single-attribute models of...

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