1 Introduction and Overview (Ryuhei Wakasugi) -- 2 Features of Japanese Internationalized Firms: Findings Based on Firm-Level Data (Ryuhei Wakasugi, Banri Ito, Toshiyuki Matsuura, Hitoshi Sato, Ayumu Tanaka and Yasuyuki Todo) -- 3 Heterogeneity and the Structure of Export and FDI: A...

Part I Country-level developments -- The Competitiveness of EU Member States from Central and Eastern Europe in 2007–2014 -- Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth -- Facilitating the Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) – The Perspective of Support Providers in Poland in...

This volume, based on a series analysis using up-to-date econometric technique, systematically investigates the role that exports and foreign direct investment (FDI) have played in China's development process, and questions the received wisdom that exports and FDI are always an unalloyed...

In the literature on exports and investment, most productive firms are seen to invest abroad. In the Helpman et al. (2004) model, costs of transportation play a critical role in the decision about whether to serve foreign customers by exporting, or by producing abroad. We consider the case of...