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The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms

Alfaro, Laura - 2009

The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly transforming the global landscape of industrial production. But are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What drives the offshore agglomeration of multinational firms in comparison to...

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Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment

Alfaro, Laura - 2007

foreign direct investment (FDI) occurs between rich countries. The share of vertical FDI (subsidiaries which provide inputs to …-industry' vertical FDI and find that their location and activity are significantly different to the inter-industry vertical FDI visible … production giving rise to a class of high-skill intra-industry vertical FDI …

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International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurial Firm Activity

Alfaro, Laura - 2007

We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. We use a unique firm level data set of approximately 24 million firms in nearly 100 countries in 2004 and 1999, which enables us to present both cross-country and industry...

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How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages

Alfaro, Laura - 2006

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 …

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The Economics of Foreign Direct Investment Incentives

Blomstrom, Magnus - 2003

is that the strongest theoretical motive for financial subsidies to inward FDI spillovers of foreign technology and …

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Regional Integration and Foreign Direct Investment

Blomstrom, Magnus - 1997

findings suggest that the most positive impact on FDI has occurred when regional integration agreements have coincided with …

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Home Country Effects of Foreign Direct Investment : Evidence from Sweden

Blomstrom, Magnus - 1994

This paper examines two broad issues related to foreign investment by Swedish multinationals: first the effects of outward foreign direct investment on domestic investment, exports, and employment, and second, the effects on the domestic economy from the increasing division of labor between the...

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Surviving the Global Financial Crisis : Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance

Alfaro, Laura - 2011

We examine the differential response of establishments to the recent global financial crisis with particular emphasis on the role of foreign ownership. Using a worldwide establishment panel dataset, we investigate how multinational subsidiaries around the world responded to the crisis relative...

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