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Intellectual property rights, multinational firms and technology transfers
Biancini, Sara; Bombarda, Pamela - 2017
the intermediate from vertically integrated producers, or from independent suppliers. In both cases, offshoring part of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761570
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Global sourcing of complex production processes
Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2011
firms that are consistent with stylized facts from the recent empirical literature. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing … ; intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; vertical FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009273125
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Global sourcing decisions and firm productivity : evidence from Spain
Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - 2009
distinguish between domestic and foreign sourcing, as well as between outsourcing and vertical integration. A firm's choice is … model. -- productivity ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; foreign direct investment ; incomplete contracts ; firm-level data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923683
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Openness, intermediate imports and growth
Kopp, Andreas - 2000
We consider two channels via which foreign inputs into industrial production may lead to productivity effects. The first one concerns dynamic externalities between firms which share technical and organizational knowledge which is vital for the productivity growth of a particular industry. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472478
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Foreign ownership and the export and import propensities of developing-country firms
Boddin, Dominik; Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2015
This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership affects the likelihood of manufacturers in developing countries to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for differences across firms in terms of labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496200
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World market access of emerging-market firms : the role of foreign ownership and access to external finance
Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2013
This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009772816
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World market access of emerging-market firms : the role of foreign ownership and access to external finance
Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2013
This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009762374
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397998
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Multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa : domestic linkages and institutional distance
Pérez-Villar, Lucia; Seric, Adnan - 2014
This paper analyzes the role of institutional distance in the establishment of domestic linkages by multinational enterprises in a cross- section of 19 Sub- Saharan countries. Investors’ familiarity with formal and informal procedures in the host country lowers uncertainty and facilitates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226357
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Redistributive income taxation under outsourcing and foreign direct investment
Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - 2010
This paper deals with optimal income taxation under labor outsourcing and FDI. We show how the optimal income tax … response to the joint effect of outsourcing and FDI depends on whether FDI is complementary with, or substitutable for …, domestic labor. -- outsourcing ; foreign direct investment ; optimal nonlinear taxation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003967778