While countries make use of a wide range of policies to attract multinational firms, identifying the effect of such … probability that a multinational firm establishes its first affiliate in the country, but has generally no impact on the expansion … asymmetries. It is stronger for IPA information services and on multinational firms from countries and in sectors facing more …

similar control plants exist. The results indicate that divestment is associated with a drop in total factor productivity …

This paper examines how restrictions on the tax-deductibility of interest cost affect location choices of multinational …

a role for home market multinational banks in intermediating information asymmetry in opaque foreign markets. The sale …

of multinational firms. Previous work focused on and provided evidence for aggregate flows or stocks of foreign direct … vertical as opposed to horizontal interdependence and, hence, mainly vertical motives of multinational activity. …

location for an affiliate of a multinational firm. In particular, we distinguish between the tax sensitivity of Greenfield and …

This paper examines location choices of multinational enterprises (MNEs). We particularly focus on the consequences of …

This paper studies how firms' offshoring decisions shape a country's domestic production networks. We develop a model … foreign suppliers, due to costly communication. Triggered by foreign countries' export supply shocks, firms start offshoring … net effect of offshoring on a firm’s domestic production networks depends on the relative strength of the three effects …

-border versus foreign affiliate sales. We find that for firms in our sample productivity is both a statistically significant and … investment ; multinational enterprises ; firm heterogeneity …