Escapism FDI from developed economies: The role of regulatory context and corporate taxation |
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Authors: | Constantina Kottaridi Dimitris Giakoulas Dimitris Manolopoulos |
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Institution: | 1. University of Piraeus, Department of Economics, 80, M. Karaoli and A. Dimitriou Street, PC: 18534 Piraeus, Greece;2. Athens University of Economics and Business, Department of Business Administration, 76, Patission Avenue, PC: 10474, Athens, Greece;3. Small Enterprises’ Institute of the Hellenic Confederation of the Professionals, Craftsmen and Merchants 46 Aristotelous Street, PC: 10433 Athens, Greece |
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Abstract: | In this paper, we extend the conceptualisation of escapism Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) holding for emerging economies to developed economies that face specific institutional failures, such as weak or incomplete regulations, along with high taxation. We combine this literature with the recent development of Dunning’s eclectic paradigm, which includes institutional aspects regarding location factors. We argue that in developed economies with problematic regulations and high taxation, sound institutions and lower tax rates abroad are extremely significant for domestic firms’ internationalisation. A central result regards the moderating effect of host regulatory quality on taxation, which highlights the crucial role of institutions for firms originating in developed economies that lack sound institutions. Additionally, the results challenge the available theorising and evidence on the moderating role of institutions in the prior experience of a firm at a location. We instead provide evidence that once firms establish a subsidiary abroad, they acquire substantial knowledge about the host institutional environment, which translates into an Ot advantage, providing an additional motive for further expansion. This work uses a unique database of the total population of Greek MNEs – released for the first time – for an extended time period, 2001–2010. The results could be generalised to similar developed economies facing analogous regulatory failures and high taxation, such as the southern European Union countries, as well as even for northern European Union countries, such as Germany, according to Bundesbank’s report. |
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Keywords: | F21 F23 M21 L25 Eclectic paradigm Outward FDI Institutional context Taxation Prior knowledge |
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