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The heterogeneous impact of Brexit: Early indications from the FTSE by Davies, Ronald B., Studnicka, Zuzanna

“…The UK’s decision to leave the EU is surrounded by several studies simulating its potential effects. We take an alternative approach by examining how news of…”
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A race to the bottom in labor standards? An empirical investigation by Davies, Ronald B., Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya

“…One of the concerns over globalization is that as nations compete for investment, they relax labor standards to attract firms. Using spatial estimation on…”
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A review of submissions to International Tax and Public Finance, 2010–2020 by Davies, Ronald B., Studnicka, Zuzanna

“…We analyze nearly 3,300 submissions to International Tax and Public Finance from 2010–2020 to identify trends in authorship, content, and the overall…”
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Beer, brewing, and regional studies by Cabras, Ignazio, Kogler, Dieter F., Davies, Ronald B., Higgins, David

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FDI in space: Spatial autoregressive relationships in foreign direct investment by Blonigen, Bruce A., Davies, Ronald B., Waddell, Glen R., Naughton, Helen T.

“…There are a number of theoretical reasons why foreign direct investment (FDI) into a host country may depend on the FDI in proximate countries. Such spatial…”
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Thoughts on the demise of FDI by Davies, Ronald B

“…This essay addresses the recent deceleration in the pace of global FDI and asks whether multinational corporations are actually in retreat. It identifies the…”
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Estimating the Knowledge-Capital Model of the Multinational Enterprise: Comment by Blonigen, Bruce A., Davies, Ronald B., Head, Keith

“…A recent American Economic Review article by David L. Carr et al. (CMM) estimates a regression specification based upon the knowledge-capital model of the…”
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KNOCKING ON TAX HAVEN’S DOOR: MULTINATIONAL FIRMS AND TRANSFER PRICING by Davies, Ronald B., Martin, Julien, Parenti, Mathieu, Toubal, Farid

“…This paper analyzes the transfer pricing of multinational firms. Intrafirm prices may systematically deviate from arm’s-length prices for two motives: pricing…”
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Cooperation in environmental policy: a spatial approach by Davies, Ronald B., Naughton, Helen T.

“…Inefficient competition in emissions taxes for foreign direct investment creates benefits from international cooperation. In the presence of cross-border…”
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Strategic tariffs, tariff jumping, and heterogeneous firms by Cole, Matthew T., Davies, Ronald B.

“…The majority of research to date investigating strategic tariffs in the presence of multinationals finds a knife-edge result where, in equilibrium, all foreign…”
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Hunting High and Low for Vertical FDI by Davies, Ronald B.

“…Recently the horizontal and vertical models of foreign direct investment (FDI) have been synthesized into the knowledge‐capital (KK) model. Empirical tests,…”
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Greenfield versus merger and acquisition FDI: Same wine, different bottles? by Davies, Ronald B., Desbordes, Rodolphe, Ray, Anna

“…Relying on a large foreign direct investment (FDI) transaction level dataset, unique both in terms of disaggregation and time and country coverage, this paper…”
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Darlings and Orphans: Interactions across Donors in International Aid by Davies, Ronald B., Klasen, Stephan

“…We examine how the bilateral aid flows from an individual donor to a recipient depend on the aid flows from all other bilateral and multilateral donors to that…”
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The glass border: Gender and exporting in developing countries by Davies, Ronald B., Mazhikeyev, Arman

“…Using firm‐level data across 80 developing and transition economies, we explore the productivity differences between firms depending on their export status and…”
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Regional knowledge spaces: the interplay of entry-relatedness and entry-potential for technological change and growth by Kogler, Dieter F., Davies, Ronald B., Lee, Changjun, Kim, Keungoui

“…This paper aims to uncover the mechanism of how the network properties of regional knowledge spaces contribute to technological change from the perspective of…”
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Introduction to the special issue for the 2023 IIPF congress: “Behavioral public finance” by Agrawal, David R., Davies, Ronald B., Riedel, Nadine

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State tax competition for foreign direct investment: a winnable war? by Davies, Ronald B.

“…When a multinational firm invests in a country, potential host states compete for the firm by offering firm-specific tax reductions. Critics blast such…”
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What do multinationals do? The structure of multinational firms’ international activities by Davies, Ronald B., Markusen, James R.

“…Analyses of multinational enterprises have generally shifted from a capital‐market perspective to viewing them as real production units. Yet, we still have…”
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Competition in taxes and intellectual property right by Davies, Ronald B., Han, Yutao, Hynes, Kate, Wang, Yong

“…We examine competition for foreign direct investment when governments compete in tax incentives along with intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection…”
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Is there an environmental benefit to being an exporter? Evidence from firm-level data by Batrakova, Svetlana, Davies, Ronald B.

“…One concern over globalisation is its impact on the environment. We analyse the consequences of becoming an exporter on a firm's energy consumption. We show…”
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