Multinational firms (MNEs) dominate trade flows, yet their global production decisions are often ignored in firm …-level studies of exporting and importing. Using newly merged data on US firms' trade and multinational activity by country, we show …

The decline in the costs of multinational production (MP) has led some countries to specialize in innovation and others … of China into the world economy may hurt countries that are driven to specialize in production due to HMEs, although …

for plant size and productivity, we find that foreign plants are significantly more likely to close than comparable …

Assessing the productivity gains from multinational production has been a vital topic of economic research. Positive … aggregate productivity gains are often attributed to within-firm productivity improvement; however, an alternative, less … in determining the aggregate productivity gains by exploring their distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic …

reported by multinational firms with particular attention to the regional dynamics of tax competition and the role of chains of … concentrated among European affiliates. Since multinational firms from countries other than the United States face tax environments …

paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000. It finds … that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 10 percent of … labor productivity growth during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the …

evidence. Multinational operations have led to a shift by parent firms in the United States toward more capital- intensive and … host countries. Foreign firms generally have higher productivity than local firms, but the evidence for spillovers to local … firms' productivity is mixed. It seems to depend on host country policies and environments and on the technological levels …

productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI spillovers is economically important, accounting for about 14% of … productivity growth in U.S. firms between 1987 and 1996. In addition, there is some evidence for imports-related spillovers, but it …

We quantify the effect of foreign investment on productivity of acquired firms using a new firm-level database that … score matching; and to control for selection on unobserved fundamentals, we include country- sector trends. The productivity …

trade shifts the distribution towards higher average productivity due to entry and exit of firms. These models ignore the … possibility that freer trade also alters the firm-size distribution via international firm migration (offshoring); firms must, by … assumption, produce in their 'birth nation.' We show that when firms are allowed to switch locations, new productivity effects …