industries, and more dependent on imports, relative to their sales. The foreign affiliates' comparative advantage relative to U ….S. parent firms and U.S. firms in general is concentrated in chemicals and metals industries. Foreign-owned firms in machinery …

.S. parents and their affiliates reflected differences among industries in the extent to which export production shares moved from …

characteristics of investing firms within individual industries.Despite its importance in determining the probability that a firm … in industries other than machinery R&D - intensive firms were more inclined than others to license technology, while in … the machinery industries, R&D - intensive firms tended to license less:to exploit their technological capital in foreign …

in periods of high U.S. growth and take place mainly in industries in which the investing country has some comparative … advantage in exporting. New establishments are largely in industries of U.S. comparative disadvantage, and the relation of U … originate in countries with comparative advantages in particular industries and flow to industries of U.S. comparative …

some industries and periods, the initial level of Japanese affiliate employment, or changes in Japanese affiliate …