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Chen, Y.-H. Henry - 2018

IIn the past few decades, many Taiwanese firms have served as subcontractors to the United States and Japanese branding firms. For example, in 2007, Taiwanese firms accounted for 90% of the world’s laptop output. However, over 90% of this output was under the foreign outsourcing firms’...

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Technology Capital and the U.S. Current Account

McGrattan, Ellen R.; Prescott, Edward C. - 2008

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) estimates the return on investments of foreign subsidiaries of U.S. multinational companies over the period 1982-2006 averaged 9.4 percent annually after taxes; U.S. subsidiaries of foreign multinationals averaged only 3.2 percent. Two factors distort...

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A Method for Improved International and Intertemporal Comparisions of U.S. Multinational Companies' Overseas Gross Product in Manufacturing

Mataloni, Raymond J. - 2000

Interest in the effects of globalized production on national economies has been heightened in recent years by the rapid growth in direct investment. Research in this area is, however, often limited by the scarcity of relevant data. Even when relevant data exist, comparison of the data across...

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The impact of economic sanctions on foreign direct investment : empirical evidence from global data

Loan Quynh Thi Nguyen; Ahmed, Rizwan - In: Journal of economics & development : JED 25 (2023) 1, pp. 79-99

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Do Taxes Influence Where U.S. Corporations Invest?

Grubert, Harry; Mutti, John - 2001

This paper uses data aggregated from tax returns of more than 500 U.S. multinational corporations (MNCs) to identify the role of host country tax rates in determining the amount of capital invested in 60 potential locations. The empirical results show that average effective tax rates have a...

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Do Multinational Enterprises Contribute to Convergence or Divergence? A Disaggregated Analysis of Us FDI

Mayer-Foulkes, David; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2005

It is a widely held belief that foreign direct investment (FDI) has a positive effect on economic growth. We test this hypothesis by performing convergence regressions derived from a model of endogenous technological change. We estimate the rate of growth in per-capita income, relative to the...

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Dynamism and Embeddedness : Towards a Lower Road? British Subsidiaries of American Multinationals

Clark, Ian; Almond, Philip - 2004

This article examines the effects of changes in the dynamics of the American national business system on industrial … relations settlements in the UK subsidiaries of American multinational corporations (MNCs). While institutionalist analyses of … employment relations at the UK subsidiary level. This suggests that although US MNCs are embedded within the American business …

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Horizontal vs. Vertical Interdependence in Multinational Activity

Badinger, Harald; Egger, Peter H. - 2010

This paper sheds light on interdependencies in multinational activity that are brought about by (horizontal) trade in final goods and (vertical) trade in intermediate goods (within and between host countries). We use a panel data set of US foreign affiliate sales to 16 developed countries in...

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Host-country financial development and multinational activity

Bilir, Kamran; Chor, Davin; Manova, Kalina - 2019

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Multinational companies : outsourcing, conduct, and taxes

Cornejo, Loran K. (contributor) - 2009

Intro -- MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES:OUTSOURCING, CONDUCT,AND TAXES -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- DO U.S.MULTINATIONALS ENGAGE INSEQUENTIAL CHOICE? EVIDENCE FROM NEWMANUFACTURING OPERATIONS IN EUROPE* -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. NEW MANUFACTURING INVESTMENTSIN EUROPE BY U.S.MULTINATIONALS -- 3....

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