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FDI and Growth in East Asia: Lessons for Indonesia

Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

Foreign direct investment has been important in the economic growth and global economic integration of developing countries over the last decades. Both Northeast and Southeast Asia, especially the latter, have been part of this development with increasing inflows of FDI and greater foreign...

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Foreign Ownership and Employment Growth in Indonesian Manufacturing

Sjöholm, Fredrik; Lipsey, Robert E.; Sun, Jing - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to accomplish this goal may be to encourage the entrance of foreign firms. They are typically relatively large, with high productivity and good access to foreign markets, and might...

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The Effect of Tax Treaties on Multinational Firms: New Evidence from Microdata

Davies, Ronald B.; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Tekin-Koru, Ayça - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

This paper uses affiliate level data from Swedish multinationals to examine the impact of tax treaties on both overall affiliate sales and the composition of those sales. In line with previous results, we find little evidence for an effect of treaties on the level of total sales. We do, however,...

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The Foreign Operations of Swedish Manufacturing Firms: Evidence from a Survey of Swedish Multinationals 1998

Ekholm, Karolina; Hesselman, Marie - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

This paper presents the results of a survey of Swedish multinationals conducted in 1999. The survey was carried out in … foreign affiliates of manufacturing firms with at least 50 employees. The first survey was conducted in the early 1970's and …, 1994 and 1998. <p> The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it serves as a documentation of the survey covering 1998 …

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Domestic versus Cross-Border Acquisitions: Which Impact on the Target Frims' Performance?

Bertrand, Olivier; Zitouna, Habib - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005

This paper investigates the effects of horizontal acquisitions on the performance of target firms in the 1990's. Using French manufacturing firm-level data, we examine two main indicators of performance: the profit and the productive efficieny. We distinguish domestic from cross-in-difference...

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Foreign Operations of Swedish Manufacturing Firms - Evidence from the IUI Survey on Multinationals 2003

Hakkala, Katariina; Zimmermann, David - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005

The paper serves as a documentation of the survey IUI has conducted on Swedish multinational firms (MNEs) in 2004. It … describes recent trends in the operations of Swedish multinational firms participating in the survey and foreign direct … investment (FDI) of Swedish firms in general. The survey is a follow-up of the surveys made by IUI since 1970s. The database …

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FDI and Job Creation in China

Karlsson, Sune; Lundin, Nannan; Sjöholm, Fredrik; He, Ping - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

This paper examines the effect of FDI on job creation in the Chinese manufacturing sector. As one of the world’s largest recipients of FDI, China has arguably benefited from foreign multinational enterprises in various respects. However, one of the main challenges for China, and other...

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