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Scale, Scope, and the International Expansion Strategies of Multiproduct Firms
Yeaple, Stephen R. - 2013
A growing literature seeks to understand how the characteristics of firms shape the manner in which they serve foreign markets. We consider an environment in which multiproduct firms can sell their products in multiple countries from multiple locations. We show that there are strong empirical...
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Multinational Expansion in Time and Space
Garetto, Stefania; Oldenski, Lindsay; Ramondo, Natalia - 2022
and space and for predicting the effects of globalization shocks …
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Internationalized Production in Developed and Developing Countries and in Industry Sectors
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2021
Internationalized production, that is, production in a country controlled by firms based in another country, grew from about 4.5% of world output in 1970 to over 7% in 1995. The importance of internationalized output fell substantially in developing countries until around 1990 but has been been...
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Heterogeneity and the FDI Versus Export Decision of Japanese Manufacturers
Head, Keith; Ries, John C. - 2021
We investigate whether productivity differences explain why some manufacturers sell only to the domestic market while others serve foreign markets through exports and/or FDI. When overseas production offers no cost advantages, our model predicts that investors should be more productive than...
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Innovation and Productivity in Smes : Empirical Evidence for Italy
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2010
Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … on Italian SMEs from the quot;Survey on Manufacturing Firmsquot; conducted by Mediocredito-Capitalia covering the period …, especially process innovation. Among SMEs, larger and older firms seem to be less productive …
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Specialization : Pro- and Anti-Globalizing, 1990-2002
Anderson, James E. - 2014
Specialization alters the incidence of manufacturing trade costs to buyers and sellers, with pro-and anti-globalizing effects on 76 countries from 1990-2002. The structural gravity model yields measures of Constructed Home Bias (the ratio of predicted local trade to predicted frictionless local...
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Globalization and Endogenous Firm Scope
Nocke, Volker - 2010
We develop a theory of multiproduct firms to analyze the effects of globalization on the distributions of firm size … have lower values of Tobin%u2019s Q than small firms. Second, it explains the globalization-skewness puzzle documented in … firms. In our model, globalization not only affects the distribution of observed productivities but also productivity at the …
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Technology and Production Fragmentation : Domestic Versus Foreign Sourcing
Fort, Teresa - 2016
This paper provides direct empirical evidence on the relationship between technology and firms' global sourcing strategies. Using new data on U.S. firms' decisions to contract for manufacturing services from domestic or foreign suppliers, I show that a firm's adoption of communication technology...
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Globotics and Development : When Manufacturing is Jobless and Services are Tradable
Baldwin, Richard; Forslid, Rikard - 2022
Globalization and robotics (globotics) are transforming the world economy at an explosive pace. While much of the …
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Globalization and Greenhouse Gas Emissions : Evidence from the United States
Brunel, Claire; Levinson, Arik - 2023
The US has been a global leader in regulating local air pollution and a global laggard in regulating greenhouse gases (GHGs). For decades, critics of US policy have expressed fears that stringent US regulations on local air pollution would lead to pollution havens overseas. Prior research,...
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