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Keine Angst vor China – Befunde zur Internationalisierung von Forschung und Entwicklung

Dominguez Lacasa, Iciar; Ehrenfeld, Wilfried; Günther, … - In: Wirtschaft im Wandel 19 (2013) 3, pp. 45-48

Die Internationalisierung von Forschung und Entwicklung nimmt seit vielen Jahren zu. Dieses Phänomen weckt die Befürchtung, der Technologiestandort Deutschland könne durch die Verlagerung von Forschungsaktivitäten insbesondere in die aufstrebenden Schwellenländer gefährdet werden. Um ein...

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Importance et évolution des investissements directs en Belgique

Piette, Christophe - 2007

, data on direct investment flows from the balance of payments on the one hand, and the results of an annual survey on direct … survey show that foreign shareholdings in Belgian firms, as measured on the basis of their book value, have stabilized since … direct investment survey point to a gradual expansion in Belgian companies’ activities abroad, which are developing at a …

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Immigration, offshoring and American jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - 2010

How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...

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(Not so) easy come, (still) easy go? Footloose multinationals revisited

Blanchard, Pierre; Dhyne, Emmanuel; Fuss, Catherine; … - 2012

This paper revisits the "footloose" nature of multinational firms (MNFs) hypothesis. Using firm-level data for Belgium over the period 1997-2008, we rely on a Probit model and take into account the endogeneity of the determinants of firm exit. Our results may be summarised as follows. First, the...

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Outward foreign direct investment and domestic performance: In search of a causal link

Dhyne, Emmanuel; Sarisoy Guerin, Selen - 2014

The aim of this paper is to examine causal effects of outward foreign direct investment activities of corporations that start expanding abroad on a large number of domestic performance indicators. Our results indicate that there is no evidence in our data to show that FDI has statistically...

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The new paradigm of international production: Empirical evidence of Spanish offshoring activities

de Matías Batalla, David - 2016

survey of 166 Spanish multinational firms. Empirical evidence should provide us the main factors that motivate Spanish …

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Factors determining early internationalization of entrepreneurial SMEs: Theoretical approach

Matiusinaite, Agne; Sekliuckiene, Jurgita - In: International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences … 8 (2015) 3, pp. 21-32

Purpose - This study extends the scientific discussion of early internationalization of SMEs. The main purpose of this paper - to develop a theoretical framework to investigate factors determining early internationalization of international new ventures. Design/methodology/approach - The...

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Understanding trade in digitized ideas: What are the statistical challenges?

Magdeleine, Joscelyn; Maurer, Andreas - 2016

Advances in information and communications technologies (ICTs) and new business models have widened opportunities for trade in digitized ideas, shaping global value chains and production networks in cultural or creative goods and services. However, much of this trade has eluded conventional...

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Multinational firm, exchange rate risk and the impact of regret on trade

Broll, Udo; Welzel, Peter; Wong, Kit Pong - 2014

This paper examines the behavior of the regret-averse multinational firm under exchange rate uncertainty. The multinational firm simultaneously sells in the home market and exports to a foreign country. We characterize the multinational firm's regret-averse preferences by a modified utility...

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Optimal policies against profit shifting: The role of controlled-foreign-company rules

Haufler, Andreas; Mardan, Mohammed; Schindler, Dirk - 2016

By introducing controlled-foreign-company (CFC) rules, the parent country of a multinational firm reserves the right to tax the income of the firm's foreign affiliates if the tax rate in the affiliate's host country is below a specified threshold. We identify the conditions under which binding...

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