these emergent economies, the multifaceted impact of migrants and migration upon these host societies, and the role of …

During the past decade of declining FDI barriers, small domestic firms disproportionately contracted while large … impact of FDI globalization on intra-industry reallocations and aggregate productivity. We calibrate the firm … multinationals. Counterfactual simulations show that declining FDI barriers lead to a disproportionate expansion of foreign …

model is based on Eaton, Kortum, and Kramarz's (2010) quantitative trade model adapted towards multinational production …. Importantly, it is able to replicate activity under an economic period with a far different level of FDI barriers than was … performing counterfactual analysis of various FDI policies. …

direct investment (HFDI), pure platform FDI (PFDI), and complex platform FDI (CFDI). Using data on Japanese outward FDI, we … illustration shows that the CFDI firms should have the highest productivity when trade costs between the U.S. and Mexico are low … consistent with this hypothesis for a period of relatively low trade costs. Our results indicate the importance of trade costs in …

policy issue. This paper studies the spatial effect of FDI agglomeration on the regional productivity of domestic firms …, using Chinese firm-level data. To identify local FDI spillovers, we estimate the causal impact of foreign firms on domestic … spillovers from FDI clusters to other domestic firms in distant counties. Our results show that FDI agglomeration generates …

Does investment liberalization in developing economies affect FDI decisions differently across individual firms? To …

Developing-country transnational corporations (TNCs) are increasing in importance in the global economy. Outward FDI …