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The life sciences sector (and biotechnology in particular) has emerged as a prospective area, and attracted a lot of attention recently. Multinational companies in the life sciences seek to explore new markets, and, on the other side, governments strive to develop the life sciences sector...
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In this paper, we investigate internationalization strategies of German manufacturing firms in the European Union. We give reasons for the hypothesis that traditional market strategies had been replaced by border-crossing production networking based on the comparative advantage of host countries...
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investment (OFDI) has been growing at a phenomenal rate. In 2012, China became the third largest investor, after the US and Japan …
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Tax incentives are a key component of governments’ investment policy mix as they directly impact companies’ tax burden …. In this paper, we illustrate the EU’s tax attractiveness as investment location over time in terms of effective average …
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-border investments by multinational firms. We study firm investment responses to a major U.K. tax reform that drastically reduced the … income tax burden for U.K.-based firms. Our identification strategy compares the investment outcomes of U.K. multinational … confirmed using novel data on local wealth. Our findings imply that, beyond the goal of motivating home country investment …
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Both proximity-concentration trade-off and factor proportions explanations have been forwarded to explain the existence of multinational enterprises. This paper analyses to what extent these different explanations are supported empirically, in making a first attempt to distinguish explicitly...
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This paper analyses the effects of the Single European Market and Swedish Investment liberalisation on the structure of … of scale, and specialisation according to comparative advantages. -- Single European Market ; Swedish Investment …
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