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Foreign Direct Investment, Labour Market Regulation and Self-Interested Governments

Palokangas, Tapio - 2021

This document examines foreign direct investment (FDI) when multinationals and labour unions bargain over labour contracts and lobby the self-interested government for taxation and labour market regulation. We demonstrate that right-to-manage bargaining predicts higher returns for FDI than does...

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Foreign Direct Investment, Labour Market Regulation and Self-Interested Governments

Palokangas, Tapio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761987

Foreign direct investment, labour market regulation and self-interested governments

Palokangas, Tapio K. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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FDI, international trade and union collusion

Buccella, Domenico - 2010

This paper deals with firms' decision related to international activities in a twocountry oligopoly model with a homogeneous product and unionized labor markets. Using a three-stage non-cooperative game with firms being first movers, it is found that firms' strategies are affected by the scale...

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Lobbying and the power of multinational firms : conference paper

Polk, Andreas; Schmutzler, Armin; Müller, Adrian - 2013

Can multinational firms exert more power than national firms by influencing politics through lobbying? To answer this … question, we analyze the extent of national environmental regulation when policy is determined in a lobbying game between a … multinational; this changes for high transportation costs and intermediate damage parameters. When there is no lobbying, welfare …

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International production and wage coordination in an integrated economy (revised)

Buccella, Domenico - 2011

Key aspects in economic integrated areas like the EU are both the internationalization of productive activities, which usually occurs in unionized countries, and the ongoing process of labor market integration. In a symmetric two-country duopoly model with integrated product markets, this paper...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Politics : The Swedish Model

Blomstrom, Magnus; Kokko, Ari - 1998

Sweden is home to remarkably many large, prosperous multinationals. We argue that this is partly the result of industrial policies that have been biased in favor of large firms, and an institutional setting where regulations and controls have facilitated investment abroad by Swedish firms, while...

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The Politics of Investment : Partisanship and the Sectoral Allocation of Foreign Direct Investment

Pinto, Pablo M.; Pinto, Santiago M. - 2008

This paper explores the existence of partisan cycles in foreign direct investment performance. Our theoretical model predicts that the incumbent government's partisanship should affect foreign investors' decision to flow into different sectors of the host country: pro-labor governments would...

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Internationalization of Firms’ Activities and Company Union Wage Strategies

Buccella, Domenico - 2014

Using a two-country duopoly model with homogeneous goods, firms' decisions with respect to international activities (trade vs. foreign direct investment - FDI) in the presence of company-wide unions are analyzed. If firms export, they pay trade costs per unit of the goods exported. If firms...

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FDI, International Trade and Union Collusion

Buccella, Domenico - 2010

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