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Foreign Entry into U.S. Manufacturing by Takeovers and the Creation of New Firms

Lipsey, Robert E.; Feliciano, Zadia - 2021

Using U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis data for individual foreign acquisitions and new establishments in the U.S from 1988 to 1998, and aggregate data for 1980 to 1998, we find that acquisitions and establishments of new firms tend to occur in periods of high U.S. growth and take place mainly...

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The Competitive Position of U.S. Manufacturing Firms

Lipsey, Robert E.; Kravis, Irving B. - 2021

This paper distinguishes between the competitive position of U.S. firms and that of the U.S. and other countries as geographical locations for production. While the share of the U.S. in world exports of manufactures fellmore than 40 per cent between 1957 and 1977, the share of all U.S. firms...

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Characteristics of U.S. Manufacturing Companies Investing Abroad and Their Choice of Production Locations

Lipsey, Robert E.; Kravis, Irving B.; O'Connor, Linda - 2022

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relations among characteristics of U.S. firms, their tendency to invest abroad, and their choice of production locations. The larger the firm, and the higher its profitability, capital intensity, technological Intensity, and the skill level ofits labor...

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Affiliate Activity in Japanese and U.S. Multinationals and Japanese Exports, 1986-1995

Lipsey, Robert E.; Ramstetter, Eric D. - 2022

. First, the relationships between Japanese export levels and employment in foreign affiliates of Japanese MNCs are analyzed … analyzes the relation of changes in Japanese exports to levels of and changes in employment in Japanese and U.S. MNC affiliates …. The level of Japan's manufactured exports to a country is almost always positively related to employment in foreign …

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