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. While the substantial presence of FIEs has contributed greatly to the recent export-led growth of China, an important …
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ventures have better export performance than private domestic firms in financially more vulnerable sectors. These results are …
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This paper applies a novel empirical approach to characterising the horizontal-ness and vertical-ness of affiliates based on Yeaple's complex FDI concept. In its simplest form, horizontal-ness is measured as affiliates' local sales share while their vertical-ness is measures as their share of...
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driven mostly by global commodity prices. In order to better understand the determinants of export success in Africa we …
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This paper proposes a proximity-concentration tradeoff in product space as a determinant of horizontal foreign direct investment (FDI). Firms that enter a foreign market by exporting are able to capture consumer surplus from introducing a differentiated product with characteristics that the...
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direct investment by U.S. firms and the export trade of the United States, a subject of bitter controversy for at least the …
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The relationship between direct investment and trade has always been recognized as one of the most difficult aspects of the study of multinational companies and their impact on their own countries and their affiliates' host countries. We cannot solve the fundamental dilemma of the inability to...
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We develop a simple model of the choice between exploiting a technology in another country via export and via direct …
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aggregate export and FDI sales relative to the domestic and foreign market sizes. In particular, it is shown that firm level … heterogeneity is an important determinant of relative export and FDI flows. We use the model to derive testable empirical … predictions on the relative aggregate export and FDI sales in a given country for a given sector based both on relative costs and …
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likely to serve as source for FDI exports than their characteristics project export lower flow of FDI than is predicted by …
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