Category Archives: MNEs

Cherries for Sale: Export Networks and the Incidence of Cross-Border M&A

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Gopakumar

by Bruce A Blonigen; Lionel Fontagne; Nicholas Sly and farid Toubal NBER WP No.18414, September 2012 This paper develops a dynamic model of cross-border M&A activity. We show that foreign firms will be relatively more attracted to targets in the … Continue reading →

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Multinationals and Monopolies Pharmaceutical Industry in India after TRIPS

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Gopakumar

by Sudip Chaudhury EPW, March 24, 2012 In January 2005, drug product patent protection was reintroduced in India to comply with the agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.How are the multinational pharmaceutical companies responding to the new … Continue reading →

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Information Technology and Bilateral FDI: Theory and Evidence

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Gopakumar

by Jeon,Bang Nam; Tang, Linghuiand Zhu Lei MPRA Paper No.36628, February 2012 This paper investigates the impact of communication cost on the FDI activities of multinational corporations (MNCs). First, we provide a theoretical foundation for a gravity-type FDI model, which … Continue reading →

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Foreign R&D Centres in India: An Analysis of their Size, Structure and Implications

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Gopakumar

by Rakesh Basant and Sunil Mani IIMA WP No.2012-01-06, January 2012 The study measures the contribution of MNCs to the generation of innovations from India. The focus is on innovations that are carried out in foreign R&D Centres. After having … Continue reading →

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Surviving the Global Financial Crisis:Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Gopakumar

by Laura Alfaro and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen WB Policy Research Working Paper No.5946, January 2012 This paper examines how different establishments performed during the recent global .financial crisis, focusing on the role of foreign ownership. The paper investigates how foreign … Continue reading →

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Do we need different frameworks to explain infant MNEs fromdeveloping countries?

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Gopakumar

by Rajneesh Narula UNU-MERIT WP-2011-73 Applying extant IB theory, I argue that the interdependence and dynamic interaction between its O assets and the L assets of its home location. Regardless of nationality, the initial O assets of an infant MNE … Continue reading →

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Multinationals and Monopolies Pharmaceutical Industry in India after TRIPS

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Gopakumar

by Sudip Chaudhuri IIMC WPS No.685/November 2011 India abolished product patent protection in pharmaceuticals in 1972. Before 1972 the industry was underdeveloped and the MNCs charged very high prices for patented drugs. After 1972, the monopoly power of the MNCs … Continue reading →

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A Comparison of the Industrialization Paths for Asian Services Outsourcing Industries,and Implications for Poverty Alleviation

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Gopakumar

by F. Ted Tschang ADBI WP No.313, October 2011 This paper examines three software and/or information technology enabled services (ITES) industries—two in the early stages of development (in the People’s Republic of China [PRC] and the Philippines) and one mature … Continue reading →

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New insights on the role of location advantages in international innovation

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Gopakumar

By Rajneesh Narula and Grazia D. Santangelo UNU-MERIT WP 2011-045  This paper takes a closer look at the role of location advantages in the spatial distribution of MNE R&D activity. In doing so, we have returned to first principles by … Continue reading →

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New Insights on the Role of Location Advantages in International Innovation

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Gopakumar

by Rajneesh Narula  and Grazia D. Santangelo    UNU-MERIT Working Paper No. 2011-45 This paper takes a closer look at the role of location advantages in the spatial distribution of MNE R&D activity. In doing so, we have returned to … Continue reading →

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