model of multinational firms facing real and financial barriers to foreign direct investment (FDI), and we analyze their … impact on the FDI decision (the extensive margin) and foreign affiliate sales (the intensive margin). We provide empirical …

sector and the real economy. Exports and foreign direct investment (FDI) have declined, presumably not only because of a lack … access to external finance on firms’ choices to export or to engage in FDI. We simultaneously model a firm’s decision to … engage in FDI and in exports, and we assess the importance of financial factors for this choice (the extensive margin) as …

the years 1990-2000 to describe the regional and sectoral patterns of German FDI through gravity-type equations. We … provide evidence on the patterns of FDI by sector, by size of the foreign affiliate, and by the number of affiliates per host … country. While market size and geographic distance have a significant impact on FDI stocks, we also find differences in the …