Firms in the international economy : firm heterogeneity meets international business

Intro -- CESifo Seminar Series -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Introduction: Firm Heterogeneity, International Economics, and International Business -- I Firm-Specific Advantages -- 1 International Business Theory for International Economists -- 2 Exports versus Foreign Direct Investments: Evidence from Cross-Country Industry Data -- 3 Managerial Characteristics and the Export Decision of Firms -- II Firm-Environment Interaction -- 4 Foreign Firms and Local Communities -- 5 Institutional Quality and FDI to the South -- 6 Heterogeneous Export Spillovers to Chinese Domestic Firms: The Role of the Difficulty to Enter the Destination Market -- III Boundaries of the Firm -- 7 Intrafirm and Arm's-Length Trade: How Distance Matters -- 8 Make or Buy: On the Organizational Structure of Firms with Asymmetric Suppliers -- 9 Global Value Chains during the Great Trade Collapse: A Bullwhip Effect? -- IV Innovation and Technology Transfer -- 10 Multinationals' Technology Transfers and Firms' Performance -- 11 Innovation Offshoring and Inventor Substitution -- 12 Heterogeneous Firms, Trade, and Economic Policy: Insights from a Simple Two-Sector Model -- Contributors -- Index.