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Does the explanatory power of the OLI approach differ among sectors and business functions? : evidence from firm-level data

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Hollenstein, Heinz; Stucki, Tobias - 2016

As services and goods differ with respect to important characteristics, one may expect that the determinants of internationalisation are not identical for services and manufacturing. Surprisingly, there is practically no firm-level research contrasting the two sectors in this respect. To fill...

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What determines whether preferential liberalization of barriers against foreign investors in services are beneficial or immizerising : application to the case of Kenya

Balistreri, Edward J.; Jensen, Jesper; Tarr, David G. - 2015

Despite the fact that many modern preferential trade agreements include commitments to foreign investors in imperfectly competitive services sectors, the literature has not established conditions under which these agreements are beneficial or harmful. The authors fill that void by developing a...

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Offshoring, job satisfaction and job insecurity

Budría, Santiago; Milgram Baleix, Juliette - 2020

This paper investigates the effects of offshoring on individual job satisfaction and perceived risk of job loss. The … workers in industries with higher offshoring intensity report lower job satisfaction and/or are more prone to be unsecure at … offshoring is associated with lower job satisfaction. The results are also indicative of some heterogeneity in the offshoring …

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International trade and polarization in the labor market

Das, Satya P. - 2012

shares of high-skill as well as low-skill workers in the total workforce. The effects of off-shoring on wages and job … composition are also studied. Off-shoring of low-skill and high-skill tasks, not middle-skill tasks, is shown to contribute … technical change ; terms of trade ; off-shoring …

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Choice of foreign R&D entry mode and its relation to firm performance : a firm-level analysis for Switzerland and Austria

Hollenstein, Heinz; Berger, Martin - 2015

The objective of this study is to identify the determinants of a firm's foreign entry mode choice and the relationship between mode selection and firm performance for the specific case of R&D-a topic not yet investigated in entry mode research. Separate estimates of a Heckman selection model for...

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Gains from multinational competition for cross-border firm acquisition

Koska, Onur A. - 2019

This study shows that when there is multinational competition for foreign acquisition, the strategic use of a consumer welfare argument in regulating foreign market entry leads to a preemptive foreign acquisition. Even under fierce competition, foreign acquisition will emerge as part of a...

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The effect of double taxation treaties and territorial tax systems on foreign direct investment : evidence for Spain

Castillo-Murciego, Ángela; López Laborda, Julio - 2019

The paper evaluates the effect of Double Taxation Treaties (DTTs) on Spain’s inward and outward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) for the period 1993–2013. Estimates produce positive and statistically significant coefficients. However, there are some differences between the inbound and...

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Thoughts on the demise of FDI

Davies, Ronald B. - 2019

This essay addresses the recent deceleration in the pace of global FDI and asks whether multinational corporations are actually in retreat. It identifies the forces that are slowing the expansion of FDI, and sketches the role that multinational corporations will play in the future.

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The special issue on FDI and multinational corporations : an introduction

Harms, Philipp; Wacker, Konstantin - 2019

This paper offers an introduction to the special issue on FDI and multinational corporations: http://www.economics-ejournal.org/special-areas/special-issues/fdi-and-multinational-corporations. It summarizes the contents of the five papers included, and relates them to the recent literature on...

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Multinational versus national firms on capital adjustment costs : a structural approach

Lapatinas, Athanasios - 2015

This paper provides an alternative perspective on the firm-level empirical analysis of the relation between foreign ownership and capital demand adjustment in host countries. The author estimates a dynamic structural model of investment on a sample of 4,672 Belgian firms for the period 2003 -...

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