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Lipsey, Robert E. - 2002

Fears that production abroad would cause home country exports and employment to fall have not been confirmed by evidence. Multinational operations have led to a shift by parent firms in the United States toward more capital- intensive and skill- intensive domestic production. However, that type...

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Characteristics of U.S. Manufacturing Companies Investing Abroad and their Choice of Production Locations

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1983

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relations among characteristics of U.S. firms, their tendency to invest abroad, and their choice of production locations. The larger the firm, and the higher its profitability, capital intensity, technological Intensity, and the skill level ofits labor...

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Exports and Foreign Investment in Manufacturing Industries

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1976

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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Exports and Foreign Investment in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1975

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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Institutions and Foreign Investment : China versus the World

Fan, Joseph P.H. - 2007

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 …

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Foreign ownership and employment growth in Indonesian manufacturing

Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Sun, Jing - 2010

Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to accomplish this goal may be to encourage the entrance of foreign firms. They are typically relatively large, with high productivity and good access to foreign markets, and might...

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Interpreting Developed Countries' Foreign Direct Investment

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000

Inward and outward direct investment (FDI) stocks and flows tend to go together, across countries and over time. The countries that invest extensively abroad are usually also large recipients of FDI. There is little evidence that flows of FDI are a major influence on capital formation. That lack...

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The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in International Capital Flows

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000

Direct investment has accounted for about a quarter of total international capital outflows in the 1990s and appears to have grown, relative to other forms of international investment, since the 1970s. The United States was by far the major source of direct investment outflows in the early...

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FDI in the Restructuring of the Japanese Economy

Blomstrom, Magnus - 2000

This paper examines how inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI) have influenced the restructuring of the Japanese economy and can be expected to continue to do so in the future. We find that outward investment has helped Japanese firms to sustain foreign market shares and contributed...

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Outward FDI and Parent Exports and Employment : Japan, the United States, and Sweden

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000

Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income level. This relationship is similar to that found for...

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