Foreign-owned plants have higher conditional exit rates, and this paper tests the hypothesis that re-investment "embeds" these plants, leading to significantly longer survival time durations. A unique dataset is used for 265 plants that commenced in foreign ownership after 1985 in North East...

<title>ABSTRACT</title> This paper analyses the location of foreign direct investment across the regions of Great Britain over 1985--2005 using the framework of discretized Markov chains. FDI is measured according to the regional share of inward investment projects, where a distinction is made between...

<title>ABSTRACT</title> This paper analyses the location of foreign direct investment across the regions of Great Britain over 1985--2005 using the framework of discretized Markov chains. FDI is measured according to the regional share of inward investment projects, where a distinction is made between...