of multinational firms' location and production decisions and the welfare implications of multinational production. The … costs of foreign investment are large. Second, I calibrate the model to data on trade and multinational production for … divert a sizable fraction of the production of EU multinationals from the US to Canada …

West German manufacturing subset of the IFO Business Climate Survey to infer quarterly production changes at the firm level … and combine them with production expectations over a quarterly horizon in the same survey to construct series of … and at most 34 percent of firms systematically over- or underpredict their one-quarter-ahead upcoming production. In a …

This paper examines how devaluations affect the relative costs of labor and capital and therefore influence production …

) bilateral exports to the United States. The patterns in the data are consistent with the theory. The mean and the variance of …

analysis of the paper is based on dynamic factor demand models describing the production structure and the behavior of factor … analysis shows that the production structure of the industry in both countries is characterized by increasing returns to scale …; the factors of production do respond to changes in factor prices; and the existence of a pattern of substitution and …

smaller production and losses of workers. On the demand side, global buyers were not able to shift sourcing to Kenyan …

costs of changing production as well as substantial costs of being away from target inventory, the latter being a function … characteristics of the demand process. In the automobile industry, inventory behavior is destabilizing: the variance of production is …

-level production and input factor choices are affected by payroll taxes …