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Organization of multinational activities and ownership structure

Mugele, Christian; Schnitzer, Monika - 2006

We develop a model in which multinational investors decide about the modes of organization, the locations of production, and the markets to be served. Foreign investments are driven by market-seeking and cost-reducing motives. We further assume that investors face costs of control that vary...

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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 … find that the financing choice is driven by managerial incentive problems and that FDI involves an international capital …

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Regional distribution of German-Czech multinationals on the domestic market

Schaeffler, Johannes; Moritz, Michael - 2012 - Preliminary version

This article deals with the domestic location of German multinational firms which have affiliates in the Czech Republic. Due to the common border the Czech Republic represents an attractive target country for both vertical and horizontal direct investments. In the year 2009 the sum of direct and...

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Multinational versus national firms on capital adjustment costs : a structural approach

Lapatinas, Athanasios - 2015

This paper provides a different perspective on the firm-level empirical analysis of the relation between foreign ownership and capital demand adjustment in host countries. The author estimates a dynamic structural model of investment on a sample of 4672 Belgian firms observed between 2003 and...

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The taxation of foreign profits : a unified view

Devereux, Michael P.; Fuest, Clemens; Lockwood, Ben - 2015

This paper synthesizes and extends the literature on the taxation of foreign source income in a framework that covers both greenfield and acquisition investment, and a general constraint linking investment at home and abroad for the multinational by introducing a cost of adjustment for the...

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Unobserved tax avoidance and the tax elasticity of FDI

Egger, Peter; Merlo, Valeria; Wamser, Georg - 2014

This paper investigates the tax responsiveness of multinational firms’ investment decisions in foreign countries, distinguishing firms that are able to avoid taxes (avoiders) from those that are not (non-avoiders). From a theoretical point of view, the tax responsiveness of firms crucially...

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FDI and onshore employment dynamics

Koerner, Konstantin; Moritz, Michael; Schäffler, Johannes - 2021

investment (FDI) in countries with substantially lower average wages. Our results derive from the use of rich administrative … attainment in the service sector. Regarding workers' tasks, our results do not show that FDI affects routine jobs beyond a worker …

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Strategic corporate social responsibility by a multinational firm

Manasakis, Constantine; Mitrokostas, Evangelos; … - 2017

either through exports or through foreign direct investment (FDI), as well as the relevant market and societal outcomes. We … find that CSR investments are higher under FDI than under exports. The multinational firm's incentives to serve the foreign … country through FDI are increasing in the average consumer's valuation for CSR and in the intensity of the foreign country …

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Taxation and the multinational firm

Egger, Peter; Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2017

This chapter provides a survey of issues which emerge with the taxation of multinational enterprises. It addresses tax rates which affect multinational firms directly and focuses on provisions and incentives which relate to the profits and investments of such firms directly. It survey positive...

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Export-Supporting FDI

Krautheim, Sebastian - 2009

overall affiliate sales. Although quantitatively important, this Export-Supporting FDI (ESFDI) activity has received little … attention in the literature. This paper includes ESFDI into a model of trade and horizontal FDI with heterogeneous firms. ESFDI … in the home country. This introduces some complementarity between trade and FDI. In the model falling trade costs lead to …

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