attention in the literature. This paper includes ESFDI into a model of trade and horizontal FDI with heterogeneous firms. ESFDI … in the home country. This introduces some complementarity between trade and FDI. In the model falling trade costs lead to … an increase in both overall trade and overall FDI activity. This provides a possible explanation for the simultaneous …

inward FDI stocks. For a panel of five advanced economies from 1980 to 2006 it is shown that price competitiveness, stable …-Saxon legislation also play a role. Financial competitiveness in turn encourages FDI inflows whereas it benefits fixed investment …

Does more FDI make the world a riskier place for workers? We analyze whether an increase in multinational firms …

performance to vary with foreign direct investment (FDI) and shows that the foreign expansion itself is the dominant explanatory … outward FDI would lead to more domestic worker separations. FDI raises domestic-worker retention more pronouncedly among …

This paper tests some of the predictions of recent advances in trade theory that have …

productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments … matters for productivity spillover benefits. We find evidence for a u-shaped relationship between productivity growth and FDI …