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Taxation, Business Environment and FDI Location in OECD Countries
Hajkova, Dana; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Vartia, Laura; Yoo, … - 2006
This paper assesses the importance of taxation on foreign direct investment contributing to the literature in two ways. First, it relates bilateral FDI among OECD countries over the 1990s to a new set of estimates of corporate tax wedges that include many relevant aspects of FDI taxation....
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Chapter 2. The Political Economy of Commercial Policy
McLaren, J. - 2016
) electoral mechanisms, the (ii) lobbying institutions, and the (iii) legislative bargaining that affect its supply. A recent … the other. Areas ripe for more exploration include informational lobbying, the role of the media, firm-level analysis of … lobbying and more realistic approaches to labor markets. …
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Institutional quality similarity, corruption distance and inward FDI in Turkey
Eren, T. Mesut; Jiménez, Alfredo - In: Journal of East European management studies : JEEMS 20 (2015) 1, pp. 88-101
In this paper we investigate the impact of institutional differences as a determinant of Turkish FDI inflows from OECD economies. We focus on the corruption distance between the home and host countries as a crucial part of institutional quality. Our results confirm that FDI flows are higher when...
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Do Foreign Investors Care About Labour Market Regulations?
Javorcik, Beata; Spatareanu, Mariana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This study takes a new look at the regulatory determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) by asking whether labour market flexibility affects FDI flows across 19 Western and Eastern European countries. The analysis is based on firm-level data on new investments undertaken during the...
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Does FDI benefit incumbent SMEs? : FDI spillovers and competition effects at the local level
Lembcke, Alexander C.; Wildnerova, Lenka - 2019
That global networks provide positive externalities to participating firms is a well‑documented fact. Less is known about how the performance of non-participating firms, especially those that are small or medium-sized, changes with exposure to an increase in the presence of globally integrated...
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The negative effect of regulatory divergence on foreign direct investment
Fournier, Jean-Marc - 2015
The determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) are explored with gravity models, using a Poisson estimator and a linear estimator, both with fixed effects. The heterogeneity of product market regulations has a large and robust impact on cross-border investment: a reduction of regulatory...
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When multinationals leave : a CGE analysis of the impact of divestments
Gómez-Plana, Antonio G.; Latorre Muñoz, María C. - 2014
Most studies on Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) focus on the impact of their expansion through inward or outward foreign direct investment (FDI) flows. However, divestments are quite common among the operations of MNEs. In order to derive their effects, we build a computable general equilibrium...
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Tax Policy and Investment in a Global Economy
Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel; Smith, Matthew; Zidar, Owen M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We evaluate the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Combining reduced-form estimates from tax data with a global investment model, we estimate responses, identify parameters, and conduct counterfactuals. Domestic investment of firms with the mean tax change increases 20% versus a no-change baseline. Due...
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Business responsibilities and investment treaties
Gaukrodger, David - 2021
Investment treaty policy increasingly interacts with business responsibilities. This scoping paper first surveys the converging approaches to responsible business conduct (RBC) and business and human rights (BHR) as reflected in the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012630416
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Foreign direct investment and trade in agro-food global value chains
Punthakey, Jibran J. - 2020
Foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade are driving forces in agro-food global value chains (GVCs), allowing companies to spread their activities across countries in complex production chains. This study explores the landscape of FDI in the agriculture and food sectors, using a novel database...
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