Network connections within MNCs seem to improve export market shares for Asian affiliates of those MNCs. In particular …, Asian affiliates of U.S. MNCs export more to markets where their parent firms' exports to affiliates are larger, and less to … markets where their parent firms export more to non-affiliates. However, the latter effect is much smaller per dollar of …

from home to export markets in response to the debt crisis of the early 1980s. The U.S. affiliates in heavily indebted …

direct investment by U.S. firms and the export trade of the United States, a subject of bitter controversy for at least the …

Weak institutions ought to deter foreign direction investment (FDI), and mass media stories highlight China …'s institutional deficiencies, yet China is now one of the world's largest FDI destinations. This incongruity characterizes China …'s paradoxical growth. Cross-country regressions show that China's FDI inflow is not exceptionally large, given the quality of its …

The First Opium War (1840-42) was a watershed in the history of China. In its aftermath Britain and other countries …-organized under Western management, Western legal institutions were introduced in China in form of courts and legal practices, and … foreigners in China were tried according to the laws of their country of origin (extraterritoriality). To better understand the …