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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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Swedish Firms Acquired by Foreigners : A Comparison of Before and After Takeover

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1982

Swedish firms acquired by foreigners were considerably larger than the average firms in their industries. They were relatively low in value added per employee at the time of takeover and before, a characteristic we take to indicate relatively low profitability, capital intensity, or...

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Foreign Takeovers of Swedish Firms

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1981

The examination of foreign takeovers is a way of distinguishing between the characteristics of f inns and industries that encourage takeovers and the effects of foreignness or of takeovers per se. Foreigners have tended to take over Swedish firms that are of above average size within each...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Employment : Home Country Experience in the United States and Sweden

Blomstrom, Magnus - 1997

We compare the relation between foreign affiliate production and parent employment in U.S. manufacturing multinationals with that in Swedish firms. U.S. multinationals appear to have allocated some of their more labor intensive operations selling in world markets to affiliates in developing...

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Internationalized Production in World Output

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1995

Internationalized production, that is, production by multinational firms outside their home countries has increased over the last two decades, but it was still, in 1990, only about 7 percent of world output. The share was higher, at 15 percent in 'industry,' including manufacturing, trade,...

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U.S. and Swedish Direct Investment and Exports

Blomstrom, Magnus - 1987

Overseas production in a country by affiliates of Swedish and U.S. firms rarely appears to displace exports from the two home countries and in most cases either has no effect or tends to increase home country exports. The positive effect on Swedish exports is evident not only with respect to...

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The Export Performance of Swedish and U.S. Multinationals

Blomstrom, Magnus - 1986

manufactures over the 15 years or so after the mid-1960's, the export shares of their multinational firms stayed fairly stable or … Sweden, and in all industry groups, with one exception, the multinationals' export shares increased relative to those of … siting of export production reflected the much greater export orientation of Swedish parents relative to U.S. parents …

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