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Foreign Direct Investment Strategies and Firms' Capabilities

SIOTIS, Georges - Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique … - 1996

decision of firms. We argue that, once localised spillovers are taken into account, the standard predictions on the nature and … not necessarily enjoy a superior capability and the presence of spillovers ma y induce a firm to invest abroad even in the …

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The perception of obstacles to innovation. Multinational and domestic firms in Italy.

Iammarino, Simona; Sanna-Randaccio, Francesca; Savona, Maria - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA), … - 2007

This paper looks at the perception of obstacles to innovation of both multinational enterprises (MNEs) and domestic firms located in Italy. Drawing on data from the firm-level Italian CIS3, we first explore to what extent innovative behaviours are both firm- (i.e. foreign- versus...

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Effects of Foreign Ownership on Innovation Activities - Empirical Evidence for 12 European Countries

Falk, Martin - FIW - 2008

In the present study we investigate the relationship between foreign ownership and innovation activities using the firm-level data of the third Community Innovation Survey (CIS) covering 12 European countries. Probit estimates based on 28,000 firms observations show that foreign owned firms are...

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Corporate taxes and the location of intellectual property

Griffith, Rachel; Miller, Helen; O'Connell, Martin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The literature suggests that tax rates on mobile activities should fall to zero. Intellectual property is very mobile and has grown in importance. Firms can use intellectual property to shift income offshore and reduce their corporate income tax liability. Yet most intellectual property is held...

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Local financial development and growth

Kendall, Jake - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 36 (2012) 5, pp. 1548-1562

Using unique, district-level, economic growth data, I investigate the connection between banking sector development, human capital, and economic growth in Indian districts. Disaggregate data helps avoid many of the omitted variable problems that plague similar cross-country studies. The data...

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Ricardo Meets China, India and U.S. Three Hundred Years Later

Shachmurove, Yochanan; Spiegel, Uriel - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2009

As our trading world becomes more globalized, who benefits and who gets hurt? This paper relies on the Ricardian model to explore the effects of technological improvements in underdeveloped countries on the welfare of developed countries. For example, trading between the United States and China,...

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Do Not Get Trapped into Crossing: Indian Firms and Foreign Markets

Navaretti, Giorgio Barba; Galeotti, Marzio; Tucci, … - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2002

This paper examines the relationship between the exposure to foreign trade and productivity growth for a sample of Indian manufacturing firms. By testing a catching up model of productivity growth, it sheds some light on the nature of the relationship between the exposure to foreign competition...

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Public research and industrial innovations in Germany

Beise, Marian; Stahl, Harald - 1998

of received knowledge spillovers, we found no higher probability of publicly supported innovations for firms in Germany … Umsatzes mit neuen Produkten gemacht. Der Technologietransfer von den öffentlichen Forschungseinrichtungen wird dabei … dem Stichwort regionale High-Tech-Agglomerationen diskutiert wird, nicht auf den Technologietransfer aus. …

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What do R&D spillovers from universities and firms contribute to productivity? : plant level productivity and technological and geographic proximity in Japan

Belderbos, René; Ikeuchi, Kenta; Fukao, Kyōji; Kim, … - 2022

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Plant productivity dynamics and private and public R&D spillovers : technological, geographic and relational proximity

Belderbos, René; Ikeuchi, Kenta; Fukao, Kyōji; Kim, … - 2013

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