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Ari Kokko
Researcher at Copenhagen Business School
Publications - 116
Citations - 12274
Ari Kokko is an academic researcher from Copenhagen Business School. The author has contributed to research in topics: Foreign direct investment & Investment (macroeconomics). The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 114 publications receiving 11881 citations. Previous affiliations of Ari Kokko include Stockholm School of Economics & New York University.
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Multinational Corporations and Spillovers
Magnus Blomstrom,Ari Kokko +1 more
TL;DR: In the major home countries, the debate on foreign direct investment has ranged from worries that outward FDI may substitute for domestic investment and erode technology leadership, to the argument that firms must invest abroad in order to stay competitive in an increasingly international environment as mentioned in this paper.
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Technology, market characteristics, and spillovers
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that technology spillovers from foreign direct investment may provide important benefits for the host countries of multinational corporations (MNCs) (see Chapter 8).
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The Economics of Foreign Direct Investment Incentives
Magnus Blomstrom,Ari Kokko +1 more
TL;DR: The attitude towards inward FDI has changed considerably over the last couple of decades, as most countries have liberalised their policies to attract investment from foreign multinational corporations (MNCs).
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Productivity spillovers from FDI in the Uruguayan manufacturing sector.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined intra-industry spillovers from FDI in Uruguayan manufacturing plants in 1988, to determine whether differences in the technology gap between locally owned plants and foreign affiliates have any impact on the relation between local productivity and foreign presence.