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Re:EU countries team up for semiconductor push by dcolkitt on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @12:47PM (#25361337)
> I think most of this is tax driven.

Disagree. Research has consistently shown that American multinationals consistently apply better corporate management practices than their European counterparts.[1] This is especially true in IT-intensive industries.[2] This is true even when comparing American multinationals operating in Europe.

Any sufficiently large company in a globally integrated, competitive industry, is going to reap potentially large efficiency gains by replacing European management with American management.

[1]https://nbloom.people.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj4746/... [2]https://nbloom.people.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj4746/...

Re:EU countries team up for semiconductor push by Daho0n on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:45PM (#25363554)
Do you have any non-American sources? You always needs to hear it from at least two different sides.
Re:EU countries team up for semiconductor push by dgdas9 on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @08:19PM (#25368261)
Nicholas Bloom the author of both papers is British.

Also, it's not like in economics/business science there's a European vs American distinction in publications. The European Economics Association is quite small and most European departments hire out of the American association's market, for instance