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Between two evils : investors prefer grand corruption!

Lambsdorff, Johann - 2005

Recent empirical studies claim that, in addition to levels of corruption, investors are deterred by its … unpredictability. I claim instead that it is petty corruption that deters investors. I employ seven subcomponents of corruption for a … this data depicts a grand, political type, embracing corruption in government policymaking and in judicial decisions as …

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Aid, Terrorism, and Foreign Direct Investment : Empirical Insight Conditioned on Corruption Control

Efobi, Uchenna - 2018

corruption-control (CC). The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 78 developing countries. The following findings are …

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Should R&D champions be protected from foreign takeovers?

Bertrand, Olivier (contributor) - 2008

We analyze how the entry mode of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) affects affiliate R&D activities. Using unique affiliate level data for Swedish multinational firms, we first present empirical evidence that acquired affiliates have a higher level of R&D intensity than greenfield (start-up)...

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Agglomeration, Relative Wage Costs and Foreign Direct Investment — Evidence from Swedish MNCs 1974–1998

Braunerhjelm, Pontus - 2017

This paper examines the relationship between agglomeration economies and relative wage costs in influencing location of multinational corporations. An inflow of firms to certain regions and industries is likely to increase demand for labor. If mobility of labor is low increased costs can be...

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Effects of Overseas Production on Home Country Exports : Evidence Based on Swedish Multinationals

Svensson, Roger - 2020

Using unique data on Swedish multinationals 1974-1990, the impacts of overseas production on parent exports are analyzed. Two methodological applications are introduced: (i) In order to avoid sample selection bias, The model includes also countries to which the firm exports, but has not...

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Technology Sourcing in Swedish Mnes and Smes : Evidence from Patent Data

Globerman, Steven; Kokko, Ari; Sjoholm, Fredrik - 2012

with large patent stocks and to countries that are located close to Sweden. Contacts with foreigners in the form of trade … and FDI also seem to facilitate the transfer of foreign technology to Sweden. However, trade contacts seem to be more …

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Outward Investment, Employment, and Wages in Swedish Multinationals

Blomstrom, Magnus; Kokko, Ari - 2001

Examining detailed data for the home-country operations of Swedish multinationals during the period 1986-94, this paper shows that there are signs of very notable structural changes in the home-country operations of these corporations. It also shows that the effects vary according to economic...

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Internationalized Production in World Output

Lipsey, Robert E.; Blomstrom, Magnus; Ramstetter, Eric D. - 1998

Internationalized production, that is, production by multinational firms outside their home countries has increased over the last two decades, but it was still, in 1990, only about 7 per cent of world output. The share was higher, at 15 per cent in "industry", including manufacturing, trade,...

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Can International Business Mitigate Corruption?

Cumming, Douglas J.; Ge, Ying - 2021

markets to avoid local corruption. We consider the specific context of corruption in the form of trade facilitation costs in …

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The Effects of Corruption on FDI Inflows

Sadig, Ali - 2013

after controlling for other determinants of FDI location?Our results show that the corruption level in the host country has … an adverse effect on FDI inflows: a one-point increase in the corruption level leads to a reduction in per capita FDI … institutions, the negative effects of corruption disappear and sometimes it becomes positive but statistically insignificant …

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