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Multinationals, robots, and the labor share

Leone, Fabrizio - 2024

Using a panel of Spanish manufacturing firms covering the 1990-2017 period, I document new evidence about affiliates of multinational enterprises (MNEs): after being acquired, they exhibit a higher propensity to use robots, which leads to a reduction in their labor share. These effects are...

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Do civil and political repression really boost foreign direct investments?

Harms, Philipp; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2001

Multinational enterprises are often accused to have a preference for investing in countries in which the working populations' civil and political rights are largely disregarded. This paper presents an empirical investigation of the popular political repression boosts FDI hypothesis and arrives...

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How is global commerce affecting the gender composition of employment? : a firm-level analysis of the effects of exposure to gender norms via trade and FDI

Heckl, Pia; Lennon, Carolina; Schneebaum, Alyssa - 2025

Global firms have a higher share of female employees than domestic non-exporters. To explain this fact, this paper tests whether international trade and FDI are channels through which norms regarding gender (in)equality are transmitted from customers and investors to firms. We employ pooled...

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Global robots

Leone, Fabrizio - 2024

The diffusion of automation technology raises questions about the future of work, leading to calls for policy interventions. The ongoing debate centers on the decisions made by technology adopters. In this paper, I study supply-side adjustments and their role in shaping policy outcomes. I focus...

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Unlocking the value of cross-border mergers and acquisitions

Brakman, Steven; Garita, Gus; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2008

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Determinants of global value chain participation : cross-country evidence

Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Kee, Hiau Looi; Winkler, Deborah - 2020

The past decades witnessed big changes in international trade with the rise of global value chains. Some countries, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam rode the tide, while other countries, many in the Africa region, faltered. This paper studies the determinants of participation in global value...

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Investor-state dispute settlement and multinational firm behavior

Schjelderup, Guttorm; Stähler, Frank - 2020

This paper shows that Investor-State Dispute Settlements (ISDS) makes multinational firms more aggressive by increasing cost-reducing investments with the aim to enlarge the potential compensation an ISDS provision may offer. While a larger investment reduces the market distortion, it will also...

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Local global watchdogs : trade, sourcing and the internationalization of social activism

Koenig, Pamina; Krautheim, Sebastian; Löhnert, Claudius; … - 2021

feature of economic globalization. What determines the patterns of the internationalization of NGO campaigns? Stylized facts …

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Tasks, occupations, and slowbalization : on the limits of fragmentation

Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2022

Following the trade collapse in 2009, Globalization has recovered but the growth rate slowed down compared to the … preceding period of Hyper Globalization. The persistence of this slowdown is remarkable. We argue that increased awareness of …, while remaining tractable. From an empirical point of view, the model explains both, the period of Hyper Globalization and …

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Confucius Institute, Belt and Road Initiative, and internationalization

Wang, Hao; Han, Yonghui; Fidrmuc, Jan; Wei, Dongming - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München / Center for …; … - 2020

In this paper, we study the role of Confucius Institute in supporting internationalization of Chinese enterprises. Employing a panel dataset containing 66 Belt-Road countries and 75 non Belt-Road countries from 2006 to 2017, we find that the Confucius Institute has had a positive effect on...

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