potentially problematic, as they depend on a number of restrictive assumptions, namely that (i) multinationals use domestically … produced inputs in the same proportion as imported inputs, (ii) multinationals have the same input sourcing behaviour as … domestic firms, irrespective of their country of origin, and (iii) the demand for locally produced inputs by multinationals is …

With a firm-level dataset, we study the location decision of all South Korean multinationals across China's regions … affiliates from South Korean multinationals. More importantly, we decompose these agglomeration effects into a pure agglomeration …

international technology market that multinationals enjoy, we find that these firms are not more likely to transfer technology to …

abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …-US multinationals in the UK, and this is primarily due to the higher productivity of their IT. Furthermore, establishments that are … taken over by US multinationals increase the productivity of their IT, whereas observationally identical establishments …