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FDI in Post-Production Services and Product Market Competition
Ishikawa, Jota; Morita, Hodaka; Mukunoki, Hiroshi - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2008
Post-production services, such as sales, distribution, and maintenance, comprise a crucial element of business activity. A foreign firm faces a higher cost to perform such services than its domestic rival because of the lack of proximity to customers. We explore an international duopoly model in...
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FDI in Post-Production Services and Product Market Competition
Ishikawa, Jota; Morita, Hodaka; Mukunoki, Hiroshi - Center for Research on Contemporary Economic Systems, … - 2008
Post-production services, such as sales, distribution, and maintenance, comprise a crucial element of business activity. A foreign firm faces a higher cost to perform such services than its domestic rival because of the lack of proximity to customers. We explore an international duopoly model in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005450420
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Tax Competition for Foreign Direct Investments and the Nature of the Incumbent Firm
Amerighi, Oscar; De Feo, Giuseppe - 2012
In this paper we investigate tax/subsidy competition for FDI between countries of different size when a domestic firm … policy competition between the two governments seeking to attract FDI. We show that the country hosting the incumbent always … welfare-maximizer location. Finally, an efficiency-enhancing role of policy competition may only arise when the domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343825
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Chapter 33 Culture in International Trade
Acheson, Keith; Maule, Christopher - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 1, (pp. 1141-1182). 2006
Cultural allegiances whether inherited, imposed or chosen, affect economic activity. Many of these cultural layers – ethnic background, religion, language, ideological orientation, and artistic interests – spill over national boundaries. Cultural ideas travel the world along many routes from...
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Protection of Intellectual Property Rights and Subsidy Policy for Foreign Direct Investment
Kang, Moonsung - 2016
This paper provides a theoretical setup for an analysis of strategic relationships inherent to activities of an innovative multinational enterprise (MNE) and a local company in a host country. Additionally, we explore the incentives of the host country's government to provide subsidies to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013007246
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International Investment Agreements and Foreign Direct Investment : A Survey
Egger, Peter H.; Pirotte, Alain; Titi, Catharine - 2023
This paper reviews the relationship between international investment agreements (IIAs) and foreign direct investment (FDI). It is organised in two parts. The first part explores the generic structure of IIAs and highlights the components that are particularly relevant to FDI. It then gives an...
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Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment Incentives : Subsidy Competition in an Oligopolistic Framework
Havranek, Tomas - 2014
. Author applies the classical models of oligopoly to subsidy competition, endogenousing investment incentives, but leaving tax … rates exogenous. According to the conventional wisdom, subsidy competition leads to overprovision of incentives. This paper …
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FDI and Technology Spillovers Under Vertical Product Differentiation
Morita, Hodaka; Nguyen, Xuan - 2014
When Northern firms undertake FDI in the South, the superior technology they bring to their Southern operations spills over to Southern firms. Technology spillovers accompanied by FDI often enable Southern firms to enhance their product quality. This paper explores a model that incorporates...
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FDI Policies Under Shared Factor Markets
Glass, Amy Jocelyn; Saggi, Kamal - 2001
market is a Cournot oligopoly. Due to a fixed supply of skilled labor in each country, such foreign direct investment (FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014224238
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Trade in international transport services : the role of competition
Francois, Joseph F.; Wooton, Ian - 2000 - Rev., June 2000
We are concerned with trade in transport services (not cabotage butrather international shipping, transport,and related logistical services) and the importance of competitionand market structure in the sector. Weexamine implications of liberalization for profits, trade, andnational gains from...
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