In recent decades, growth of overall world trade has been driven in large part by the rapid growth of trade in …

. First, the relationships between Japanese export levels and employment in foreign affiliates of Japanese MNCs are analyzed …, the paper examines the effects of the presence of affiliates of U.S. MNCs on Japanese export levels. And third, it …

Since 1977, and in some cases starting before that, most East Asian countries' export patterns in manufacturing have … countries. The process of change in most cases started with inward FDI to produce for export in the new industries, particularly ….S. export comparative advantage, far from the previous patterns of the host countries. The industry distribution of Japanese …

choice. Production for export seems to have been most strongly attracted by large internal markets in host countries …. Economies of scale in production presumably made large markets also economical as export bases. Another factor was high trade … propensities of host countries, which we interpret as representing access to imported materials at low world prices or better …