Trade, investment and intangibles

Abstract

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Multinational enterprises and intangible capital

“…Digital companies try to establish new partnerships with counterparts abroad to extend the number of users in their network (Cahen and Borini, 2020 [61]). UNCTAD (2017 [62]) reports that internet platforms have ratios of foreign sales to foreign assets of 2.6 as compared to a ratio of one for non-internet companies.…”