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Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Entrepreneurship: Blessing or Curse?

Danakol, Seçil Hülya; Estrin, Saul; Reynolds, Paul; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper explores the effects of foreign direct investment, measured by mergers and acquisitions, on domestic entrepreneurial entry. We use a micro-panel of more than two thousand individuals disaggregated by industry in seventy countries including both developed and developing economies,...

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Location Choice and Employment Decisions: A Comparison of German and Swedish Multinationals

Becker, Sascha O.; Ekholm, Karolina; Jäckle, Robert; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Using data on German and Swedish multinational enterprises (MNEs), this paper analyses determinants of international location choice and the degree of substitutability of labour across locations. Countries with highly skilled labour forces strongly attract German but not necessarily Swedish...

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Organizing the Global Value Chain

Antràs, Pol; Chor, Davin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We develop a property-rights model of the firm in which production entails a continuum of uniquely sequenced stages. In each stage, a final-good producer contracts with a distinct supplier for the procurement of a customized stage-specific component. Our model yields a sharp characterization for...

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Globalization, Credence Goods and International Civil Society

Krautheim, Sebastian; Verdier, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The process of globalization is characterized by an impressive growth in global value chains, as well as the … potential NGO emergence allows firms to capture gains from globalization, which would otherwise be unattainable. We show that … trade costs, would be better-off in a world without NGOs. In an extension we show that NGOs may also crowd out investment in …

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'Globalization' and Relocation in a Vertically Differentiated Industry

Cordella, Tito; Grilo, Isabel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

decisions, when the removal either of trade barriers or of restrictions on capital outflows/inflows (‘globalization’) allows … yields the relocation of the whole industry, autarchy is strictly better, in welfare terms, than ‘globalization’. It is only … when relocation is a dominant strategy for one (and only one) of the firms, that ‘globalization’ may be unambiguously …

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Trade Liberalization and Organizational Change

Conconi, Paola; Legros, Patrick; Newman, Andrew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We embed a simple incomplete-contracts model of organization design in a standard two-country perfectly-competitive trade model to examine how the liberalization of product and factor markets affects the ownership structure of firms. In our model, managers decide whether or not to integrate...

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Does the New Economy Need New Governance? Ownership, Knowledge and Performance

Audretsch, David B; Lehmann, Erik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We study the implications of ownership and its induced incentives on firm performance in the ‘New Economy’. Instead of traditional performance we use firm survival on the stock market as the performance indicator. Using a unique data set of all 341 firms listed on the Neuer Markt, the German...

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Entrepreneurship Capital and Economic Performance

Audretsch, David B; Keilbach, Max - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

The neoclassical model of the production function, as applied by Robert Solow to build the neoclassical model of growth, linked labour and capital to output. More recently, Romer and others have expanded the model to include measures of knowledge capital. In this Paper we introduce a new factor,...

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What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does it Pay? Native Men, Turks and Other Migrants in Germany

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition; self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the...

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Do Locational Spillovers Pay? Empirical Evidence from German IPO Data

Audretsch, David B; Lehmann, Erik E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This study examines the impact locational spillovers have on firm performance. Based on a uniquely created dataset consisting of high-technology start-ups publicly listed in Germany, this paper tests the proposition of locational spillovers positively affecting firm performance, as measured by...

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