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Power Relationships Along the Value Chain : Multinational Firms, Global Buyers and Performance of Local Suppliers

Pietrobelli, Carlo; Saliola, Federica - 2010

relationships (the governance) among the various actors involved in these activities and their implications for development. The … recent literature on global value chains and their governance takes this element explicitly into account, and we explore it … quantitative measure of their governance, which takes into account different levels and types of buyer involvement with supplier …

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Does and How Does Globalization Matter?

Gersbach, Hans - 2014

In this paper we develop a new concept of globalization defined as the exposure of a productivity follower industry in one country to the productivity leader in another country. Globalization is measured by the intensity of contacts through trade and foreign direct investment. In a simple model...

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Host Country Financial Development and Multinational Activity

Bilir, Kamran - 2019

This paper evaluates the influence of host-country financial conditions on the global operations of multinational firms. Using detailed U.S. data, we establish that financial development in a country is associated with relatively more entry by multinational affiliates, as well as with higher...

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Trade, Wages, FDI and Productivity

Giesen, Kristian - 2011

allows for wage differentials across countries in equilibrium. The framework is especially suitable to analyze the welfare … consequences of attracting FDI since it allows to study through which channels FDI might raise welfare - including the not yet … cooperative FDI policy scenario and find that supranational coordination leads to welfare gains …

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Foreign sales strategies of multinational enterprises

Kleinert, Jörn; Toubal, Farid - 2010

The business literature has long recognized the importance of multinationals’ distribution networks. The empirical analysis of distribution-oriented FDI has, however, received little attention which is at least partly due to the lack of appropriate data. We outline a slightly modified version...

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Trade and FDI, the proximity-concentration trade-off revisited

Stepanok, Ignat - 2018

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Are US Multinationals Making Rational Offshoring Decisions? A Gravity Model Approach

Gupta, Vrinda - 2010

This paper constructs five indicators that a multinational firm must take into account when deciding the location of its offshore units. These indicators are: human capital; skilled labour cost; quality of infrastructure; business environment; and market size. The indicators are based on over 100...

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Taxes and Location of Foreign Direct Investments : An Empirical Analysis for the European Union Countries

de Santis, Roberta - 2007

This paper aims at verifying the impact of fiscal variables in the multinational firms' localisation choices within the European Union Member States. In particular, the sensitivity of bilateral foreign direct investments towards EU member countries to the receiving country's fiscal...

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The Impact of Mutual Recognition Agreements on Foreign Direct Investment and Export

Jang, Yong Joon - 2017

This paper analyzes the trade-off relationship between exports and horizontal FDI in response to a mutual recognition agreement (MRA) for technical regulations and certification procedures for import goods. As an MRA is concluded to reduce entry costs of exporting, multinationals (MNEs) derive...

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The Impact of Intellectual Property Protection on MNEs’ Decisions to Invest in Developing Countries : Empirical Evidence from New Swiss Firm-Level FDI Panel Data

Hold, Arno - 2015

This article reviews the impact of intellectual property (IP) protection on foreign direct investment (FDI) by multinational enterprises (MNEs) in developing countries. Applying different panel data techniques to a newly-created comprehensive FDI/IP dataset of 31 Swiss MNEs investing into 53...

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