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FDI promotion through bilateral investment treaties: More than a bit?
Busse, Matthias; Königer, Jens; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2008
order to improve their chances in the worldwide competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). However, the effectiveness … of BITs in inducing higher FDI inflows is still open to debate. It is in several ways that we attempt to clarify the … extensive dataset on bilateral FDI flows. Furthermore, we account for unilateral FDI liberalization, in order not to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273152
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Political Risk, Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment
Hefeker, Carsten; Busse, Matthias - 2005
The paper explores the linkages between political risk, institutions and foreign direct investment inflows. Using different econometric techniques for a data sample of 83 developing countries and the period 1984 to 2003, we identify those indicators that matter most for the activities of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295448
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Explaining the global landscape of foreign direct investment: knowledge capital, gravity, and the role of culture and institutions
Schneider, Sophie Therese; Wacker, Konstantin M. - 2020
global patterns of foreign direct investment (FDI). Compared to previous studies, we use bilateral FDI positions with a much … suggested by theories on FDI determinants. We find the gravity model to achieve the best theory-consistent out …-of-sample prediction, particularly when parameter heterogeneity of South and North FDI is allowed for. Controlling for surrounding market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012605229
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Decomposing multinational corporations' declining effective tax rates
Garcia-Bernardo, Javier; Jansky, Petr; Torslov, Thomas - 2019
We develop a new methodology to decompose the observed decline in multinational corporations' (MNCs') effective tax rates into profit shifting to tax havens and several other components. We apply this methodology to the best available data for MNCs headquartered in the US - from the Bureau of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133696
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Escaping to the east? : relocation of business activities to and from Hungary, 2003 - 2011
Hunya, Magdolna Sass-Gábor - 2014
While the increased frequency of relocation of productive capacities to lower wage countries from developed economies has given rise to discussions concerning job losses and de-industrialisation, developments in the host countries of relocation have been widely neglected. Hungary, together with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252180
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Mobility of corporate headquarter functions: A literature review
Deschryvere, Matthias - 2009
This paper reviews the recent literature on the relocation of headquarters (HQs). Overall results show that full and direct international relocations of corporate HQs are rare events. However, there is a trend that MNEs increasingly unbundle their HQs so as to spread their different HQs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273074
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The single market and the geographical diversification of leading firms in the EU
Barry, Frank G.; Pavelin, Stephen - 2003
countries. Ireland, which began its rapid FDI-fuelled convergence on average EU living standards over our data period, emerges …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293768
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Can India become an export platform for global operations of Japanese and American multinational corporations affiliates?
Yamashita, Nobuaki - 2012
that India will grow as an export platform similar to China because of the former country's unique FDI experiences and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287931
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The Hardships of Long Distance Relationships: Time Zone Proximity and Knowledge Transmission within Multinational Firms
Bahar, Dany - 2018
Using a unique dataset on worldwide multinational corporations with precise location of headquarters and affiliates, I present evidence of a trade-off between distance to the headquarters and the knowledge intensity of the foreign subsidiary’s economic activity, emerging from dynamics related...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011887364
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The Hardships of Long Distance Relationships: Time Zone Proximity and Knowledge Transmission within Multinational Firms
Bahar, Dany - 2018
Using a unique dataset on worldwide multinational corporations with precise location of headquarters and affiliates, I present evidence of a trade-off between distance to the headquarters and the knowledge intensity of the foreign subsidiary's economic activity, emerging from dynamics related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931662