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Atalay, Enghin; Frost, Erika; Sorensen, Alan T.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study changes in markups across 72 product markets from 2006 to 2018. A growing literature has documented a rise in markups over time using a production function approach; we instead employ the standard microeconomic method, which is to estimate demand and then invert firms' first-order...

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The Effect of Immigration Policy on Founding Location Choice : Evidence from Canada's Start-up Visa Program

Lee, Saerom; Glennon, Britta - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

To spur entrepreneurship and economic growth, an increasing number of countries have introduced immigration policies that provide visas to skilled entrepreneurs. This paper investigates whether these policies influence the founding location choice of immigrant founders, by leveraging the...

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US Immigration from Latin America in Historical Perspective

Hanson, Gordon H.; Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The share of US residents who were born in Latin America and the Caribbean plateaued recently, after a half century of rapid growth. Our review of the evidence on the US immigration wave from the region suggests that it bears many similarities to the major immigration waves of the 19th and early...

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Globalization and Profitability of US Firms : The Role of Intangibles

Chintha, Bullipe R.; Jagannathan, Ravi; Sridhar, Sri S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

China's admission into the WTO in 2001 heralded a new era of globalization, increasing both import competition in domestic markets and foreign opportunities for US firms. In the aggregate, the average annual profitability of US public firms during the post globalization period (2003-2019)...

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Combinatorial Discrete Choice : A Quantitative Model of Multinational Location Decisions

Arkolakis, Costas; Eckert, Fabian; Shi, Rowan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We introduce a general quantifiable framework to study the location decisions of multinational firms. In the model, firms choose in which locations to pay the fixed costs of setting up production, taking into account potential complementarities among production locations. The firm's location...

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Risk-On Risk-Off : A Multifaceted Approach to Measuring Global Investor Risk Aversion

Chari, Anusha; Stedman, Karlye Dilts; Lundblad, Christian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper defines risk-on risk-off (RORO), an elusive terminology in pervasive use, as the variation in global investor risk aversion. Our high-frequency RORO index captures time-varying investor risk appetite across multiple dimensions: advanced economy credit risk, equity market volatility,...

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Foreign ownership and employment growth in Indonesian manufacturing

Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Sun, Jing - 2010

Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to accomplish this goal may be to encourage the entrance of foreign firms. They are typically relatively large, with high productivity and good access to foreign markets, and might...

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Financial constraints, institutions, and foreign ownership

Alquist, Ron; Berman, Nicolas; Mukherjee, Rahul; Tesar, … - 2018

ownership structure reflects a trade-off between easing target credit constraints and the costs of operating in an environment …

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Spacey Parents : Spatial Autoregressive Patterns in Inbound FDI

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2005

Increasing attention has been given to the impact of third countries on outbound FDI to a given host country. Here, we consider potential third-country effects on inbound FDI. A simple model suggests two sources of such effects on a country's inbound FDI. First, it will tend to receive more FDI...

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FDI and Trade -- Two Way Linkages?

Aizenman, Joshua - 2005

international trade. We outline a model exemplifying some of these linkages, describe several methods for investigating two …-way feedbacks between various categories of trade, and apply them to the recent experience of developing countries. After … between FDI and manufacturing trade. More precisely, applying Geweke (1982)'s decomposition method, we find that most of the …

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