to become an entrepreneur and the level of employment of newly created businesses. We focus on the interaction between …

, Japanese firms resembled U.S. multinationals. A Japanese parent's employment, given the level of its production, tends to be … similar to that of Swedish firms, but contrasts with that of U.S. firms. U.S. firms appear to reduce employment at home …-wage countries. We conclude that in Japanese firms and ancillary employment at home to service foreign operations outweighs any …

Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to …, previous research on the issue has been limited by the paucity of long data sets for firm operations.We examine employment … from domestic ones. Employment growth is relatively high in foreign-owned establishments, although foreign firms own …

crises export relatively more FPI than FDI, and (2) this effect strengthens as the source country's capital market … transparency worsens. To test these hypotheses, we apply a dynamic panel model and examine the variation of FPI relative to FDI for …

technologies abroad, multinational firm (MNC) activity and foreign direct investment (FDI) flows arise endogenously when monitoring …, increase the reliance on FDI flows and alter the decision to deploy technology through FDI as opposed to arm's length licensing …. Several distinctive predictions for the impact of weak investor protection on MNC activity and FDI flows are tested and …

markets in enabling foreign direct investment (FDI) to promote growth through backward linkages, shedding light on this … financial markets allow the backward linkages between foreign and domestic firms to turn into FDI spillovers. Our calibration … growth rates that are almost twice those of economies with poor financial markets, b) increases in the share of FDI or the …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is observed to be a predominant form of capital flows to emerging economies, especially … when they are liquidity-constrained internationally during a global financial crisis. The financial aspects of FDI are the … FDI in reviving equity-financed capital investment for economies plagued by such information problems. In the presence of …