This paper explores how the outward FDI made by Taiwanese manufacturing firms affects their decisions on domestic employment, production, investment and income distribution. The empirical examination was carried out by utilizing a set of panel data of 1,084 manufacturing firms in Taiwan over the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the optimal policy settings of the home government for any combination of strategic variables adopted by home and foreign firms under Brander and Spencer’s third-market model framework. Design/methodology/approach – This paper follows all...

In a recent article in the Global Economy Journal, Lei Zhou, Basudeb Biswas, Tyler Bowles and Peter J. Saunders (2011) have shown that globalization does not contribute to income inequality in a sample of 60 countries. In this comments we have demonstrated that their conclusion is misleading for...