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Outward FDI and Parent Exports and Employment : Japan, the United States, and Sweden

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000

Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income level. This relationship is similar to that found for...

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The Export Performance of Swedish and U.S. Multinationals

Blomstrom, Magnus - 1986

While the U.S. and Sweden both lost more than 20 per cent of their shares of world and developed countries' exports of …. These developments suggest that the declining trade shares of the U.S. and Sweden were not due mainly to deterioration in … Sweden, and in all industry groups, with one exception, the multinationals' export shares increased relative to those of …

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Swedish Firms Acquired by Foreigners : A Comparison of Before and After Takeover

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1982

Swedish firms acquired by foreigners were considerably larger than the average firms in their industries. They were relatively low in value added per employee at the time of takeover and before, a characteristic we take to indicate relatively low profitability, capital intensity, or...

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Foreign Takeovers of Swedish Firms

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1981

The examination of foreign takeovers is a way of distinguishing between the characteristics of f inns and industries that encourage takeovers and the effects of foreignness or of takeovers per se. Foreigners have tended to take over Swedish firms that are of above average size within each...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Employment : Home Country Experience in the United States and Sweden

Blomstrom, Magnus - 1997

We compare the relation between foreign affiliate production and parent employment in U.S. manufacturing multinationals with that in Swedish firms. U.S. multinationals appear to have allocated some of their more labor intensive operations selling in world markets to affiliates in developing...

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Internationalized Production in World Output

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1995

Internationalized production, that is, production by multinational firms outside their home countries has increased over the last two decades, but it was still, in 1990, only about 7 percent of world output. The share was higher, at 15 percent in 'industry,' including manufacturing, trade,...

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A Heckscher-Ohlin View of Sweden Competing in the Global Market

Leamer, Edward E. - 1995

, Sweden remains well supplied with soft-wood forests. Although contributing substantially to GDP forest resources can also …

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Home Country Effects of Foreign Direct Investment : Evidence from Sweden

Blomstrom, Magnus - 1994

This paper examines two broad issues related to foreign investment by Swedish multinationals: first the effects of outward foreign direct investment on domestic investment, exports, and employment, and second, the effects on the domestic economy from the increasing division of labor between the...

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Multinational Firms and Manufactured Exports from Developing Countries

Blomstrom, Magnus - 1988

. Multinationals from the United States, Japan and Sweden have all increased their shares of LDC exports of manufactures since the mid …

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CEO Turnover and Foreign Market Participation

Blonigen, Bruce - 2003

Anecdotal evidence suggests that new CEOs with foreign backgrounds direct their firms to become more international in their operations. We examine this hypothesis formally using data on U.S. S&P-500 manufacturing firms from 1992 through 1997 and biographical information on CEOs' birth and...

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