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Foreign Takeovers and Wage Dispersion in Hungary

Csengödi, Sandor; Urban, Dieter M. - 2021

This study tests FDI technology spillover models with the assumption that learning takes time against wage bargaining models by estimating the wage-premium of a foreign takeover. The technology spillover theory predicts a larger wage growth in firms taken over by foreign investors than in local...

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Foreign Ownership and Skillbiased Technological Change

Koch, Michael - 2019

We conduct an empirical investigation into the effects of foreign ownership on worker skills using firm-level data from Spain. To control for endogeneity bias due to selection into foreign ownership, we combine a difference-in-differences approach with a propensity score weighting estimator. Our...

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FDI Technology Spillovers and Wages

Urban, Dieter M. - 2021

This study distinguishes multinational firm (MNE) technology-spillover from learning effects. Whenever learning takes time, the model predicts that foreign investors deduct the economic value of learning from wages of inexperienced workers and add it to experienced ones to prevent them from...

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Global Spillovers of Taxation in the Online Advertising Market. Theory and Evidence from Facebook

Lassmann, Andrea - 2020

We analyze the effect and welfare implications of taxing multinational digital platforms on the global online advertising market. Using a novel dataset on advertising prices and product preferences of users from Facebook in OECD countries, jointly with international trade data, we show that an...

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R&D Spillovers Through RJV Cooperation

Banal-Estañol, Albert - 2020

We investigate the dimensions through which R&D spillovers are propagated across firms via cooperation through Research … technology spillovers and product market rivalry, and extend it to account for RJVs. Our main findings are that the adverse …

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Intra- and Inter-Industry Productivity Spillovers in OECD Manufacturing : A Spatial Econometric Perspective

Badinger, Harald; Egger, Peter - 2021

We adopt a spatial econometric approach to estimate intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in total factor …&D spillovers as well as remainder, input-output-related linkage effects are accounted for, the latter of which we model by a … spatial regressive error process. We find that knowledge spillovers occur both horizontally and vertically, whereas remainder …

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Intellectual property rights, technology transfer and exports in developing countries

Yang, Lei; Maskus, Keith E. - 2008

We develop a model to analyze one mechanism under which stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection may improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break into export markets. A Northern firm with a superior process technology chooses either exports or technology transfer...

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Technology Transfer in Global Value Chains

Sampson, Thomas - 2022

Firm-to-firm relationships in global value chains create opportunities for North-South technology diffusion. This paper studies technology transfer in value chains when contracts are incomplete and input production technologies are imperfectly excludable. The paper introduces a new taxonomy of...

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Growing like China : firm performance and global production line position

Chor, Davin; Manova, Kalina; Yu, Zhihong - 2020 - Version of August, 2020

Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese firms position themselves in global production lines and...

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Corporate Tax Avoidance and Industry Concentration

Martin, Julien - 2020

This paper argues that tax avoidance by large corporations has contributed to the 25% increase in concentration among U.S. firms since the mid-1990s. Corporate tax avoidance gives large firms a competitive edge, which translates into larger market shares and an increase in the granularity of the...

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