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Multinational Expansion in Time and Space

Garetto, Stefania - 2019

This paper studies the expansion patterns of the multinational enterprise (MNE) in time and space. Using a long panel of US MNEs, we document that MNE affiliates usually start with sales exclusively to the host market and eventually enter export markets, and that this extensive margin of...

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Endogenous Market Structure and Foreign Market Entry

Markusen, James R. - 2009

Models dealing with cross-border acquisitions versus greenfield investment usually assume that the entry of a foreign firm into a market has effects on the outputs of all domestic firms in that market, but exit or entry of local firms is not considered. The purpose of this paper is to re-examine...

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Heterogeneity and the FDI versus Export Decision of Japanese Manufacturers

Head, Keith - 2003

We investigate whether productivity differences explain why some manufacturers sell only to the domestic market while others serve foreign markets through exports and/or FDI. When overseas production offers no cost advantages, our model predicts that investors should be more productive than...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468642

CEO Turnover and Foreign Market Participation

Blonigen, Bruce - 2003

Anecdotal evidence suggests that new CEOs with foreign backgrounds direct their firms to become more international in their operations. We examine this hypothesis formally using data on U.S. S&P-500 manufacturing firms from 1992 through 1997 and biographical information on CEOs' birth and...

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Scale, Scope, and the International Expansion Strategies of Multiproduct Firms

Yeaple, Stephen Ross - 2013

A growing literature seeks to understand how the characteristics of firms shape the manner in which they serve foreign markets. We consider an environment in which multiproduct firms can sell their products in multiple countries from multiple locations. We show that there are strong empirical...

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Climate and Civil War : Is the Relationship Robust?

Burke, Marshall - 2010

-average temperatures and the incidence of civil war in Africa (Burke et al. 2009). These findings have recently been challenged by Buhaug …

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African Poverty is Falling...Much Faster than You Think!

Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2010

The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala …

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Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2009

GDP growth is often measured poorly for countries and rarely measured at all for cities or subnational regions. We propose a readily available proxy: satellite data on lights at night. We develop a statistical framework that uses lights growth to augment existing income growth measures, under...

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Trade Growth under the African Growth and Opportunity Act

Frazer, Garth - 2007

This paper explores whether one of the most important U.S. policies towards Africa of the past few decades achieved its …

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Lost Decades : Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa

Bates, Robert H. - 2006

Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin … America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960. Despite the distance in time and space, they share important similarities … about a half-century (lost decades). The parallels suggest that Africa might be exiting from a period of post …

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