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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 …, we develop a multi-country quantitative dynamic model of the MNE that features heterogeneity in firm-level productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479754
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459495
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International Trade and Innovation
Akcigit, Ufuk; Melitz, Marc J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
-dimensional connections between globalization and innovation. We develop a model that features many of those mechanisms that connect trade and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794638
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What Determines Immigration's Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2006
Can history shed light on the modern debate about immigration's labor market impact in high wage economies? This paper examines the relationship between migration and capital flows in the age of mass migration before 1914, the so-called first global century. It then assesses the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466251
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Heckscher-Ohlin Theory and Individual Attitudes Towards Globalization
O'Rourke, Kevin - 2003
The aim of the paper is to see whether individuals' attitudes towards globalization are consistent with the predictions …-skilled is associated with more pro-globalization attitudes in rich countries; while in some of the very poorest countries in the … sample being high-skilled has a negative (if statistically insignificant) impact on pro-globalization sentiment. More …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468825
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The Globalization of Angel Investments : Evidence across Countries
Lerner, Josh - 2015
This paper examines investments made by 13 angel groups across 21 countries. We compare applicants just above and below the funding cutoff and find that these angel investors have a positive impact on the growth, performance, and survival of firms as well as their follow-on fundraising. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456863
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Internationalization and the evolution of corporate valuation
Levine, Ross - 2005
"By documenting the evolution of Tobin's "q" before, during, and after firms internationalize, this paper provides evidence on the bonding, segmentation, and market timing theories of internationalization. Using new data on 9,096 firms across 74 countries over the period 1989-2000, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522397
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International Comovement in the Global Production Network
Huo, Zhen - 2019
This paper provides a general and unified framework to study the role of production networks in international GDP comovement. We first derive an additive decomposition of bilateral GDP comovement into components capturing shock transmission and shock correlation. We quantify this decomposition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479927
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The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms
Alfaro, Laura - 2009
The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly transforming the global landscape of industrial production. But are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What drives the offshore agglomeration of multinational firms in comparison to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463073
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Internationalization and the Evolution of Corporate Valuation
Levine, Ross - 2005
By documenting the evolution of Tobin's "q" before, during, and after firms internationalize, this paper provides evidence on the bonding, segmentation, and market timing theories of internationalization. Using new data on 9,096 firms across 74 countries over the period 1989-2000, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467664