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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...
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International R&D Deployment and Locational Advantage : A Case Study of Taiwan
Liu, Meng-Chun - 2003
the literature on R&D internationalization and globalization, based upon which we emphasize the significance of first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468525
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Combinatorial Discrete Choice : A Quantitative Model of Multinational Location Decisions
Arkolakis, Costas; Eckert, Fabian; Shi, Rowan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We introduce a general quantifiable framework to study the location decisions of multinational firms. In the model, firms choose in which locations to pay the fixed costs of setting up production, taking into account potential complementarities among production locations. The firm's location...
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Globalization, Technology, and the Skill Premium : A Quantitative Analysis
Burstein, Ariel - 2010
We construct a model of international trade and multinational production (MP) to examine the impact of globalization on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462198
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The IT Revolution and the Globalization of R&D
Branstetter, Lee G. - 2018
three important phenomena: (1) the globalization of R&D, (2) the growing importance of software and IT to firm innovation … markets. One of the distinguishing features of the R&D globalization phenomenon is its concentration within the software … IT- and software-biased shift in innovation drove US MNCs abroad, and particularly drove them abroad to "new hubs" with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453013
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From Russia with Love : The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival
Falck, Oliver - 2010
We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions...
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Economic Geography and Reginal Production Structure : An Empirical Investigation
Davis, Donald R. - 1997
There are two principal theories of why countries or regions trade: comparative advantage and increasing returns to scale. Yet there is virtually no empirical work that assesses the relative importance of these two theories in accounting for production structure and trade. We use a framework...
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Heterogeneity and the Dynamics of Technology Adoption
Ryan, Stephen P. - 2011
We estimate the demand for a videocalling technology in the presence of both network effects and heterogeneity. Using a unique dataset from a large multinational firm, we pose and estimate a fully dynamic model of technology adoption. We propose a novel identification strategy based on...
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Innovation, Knowledge Diffusion, and Globalization
Lind, Nelson - 2018
). We present models in the literature that extend the EK model of trade to innovation, diffusion, and multinational firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480722
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Internationalized Production in Developed and Developing Countries and in Industry Sectors
Lipsey, Robert E. - 1998
Internationalized production, that is, production in a country controlled by firms based in another country, grew from about 4.5% of world output in 1970 to over 7% in 1995. The importance of internationalized output fell substantially in developing countries until around 1990 but has been been...
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