par Marra De Artinano, Ignacio 
Président du jury Kirchsteiger, Georg
Promoteur Conconi, Paola
Publication Non publié, 2026-09-11
Président du jury Kirchsteiger, Georg
Promoteur Conconi, Paola
Publication Non publié, 2026-09-11
Thèse de doctorat
| Résumé : | This thesis studies the local impact of multinational corporations on host economies, combining evidence on their effects with an evaluation of the policies designed to attract them. In the first chapter, I study the labor market effects of Brazil's 1995 foreign investment liberalization using matched employer-employee records and a structural model with labor market frictions and informality. The reform raised output by 1% but widened inequality: wages of college graduates rose 8%, while wages of workers without high school fell by 1%. In the second chapter, I use firm-to-firm transaction data from Uruguay to show that supplying to a multinational corporation more than doubles the probability of exporting for the first time, and that domestic firms disproportionately start exporting to the countries where their multinational buyer has affiliates. In the third chapter, I combine worldwide affiliate location data with firm-level records from Costa Rica's investment promotion agency. Promotion support significantly increases the probability that a multinational firm establishes its first affiliate in the country, with effects concentrated in the agency's information services and among firms facing more severe information frictions. |
