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Location choice in low-income countries : evidence from Japanese investments in East Asia

Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Tsubota, Kenmei - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

Unlike most existing studies, this paper examines the location choices of MNEs in developing countries. Specifically, we investigate the location choices of Japanese MNEs among East Asian developing countries by estimating a four-stage nested logit model at the province level. Noteworthy results...

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Heterogeneous multinational firms and productivity gains from falling FDI barriers

Arita, Shawn; Tanaka, Kiyoyasu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

During the past decade of declining FDI barriers, small domestic firms disproportionately contracted while large multinational firms experienced a substantial growth in Japanâ€™s manufacturing sector. This paper quantitatively assesses the impact of FDI globalization on intra-industry...

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Production networks in the Asia-Pacific region : facts and policy implications

Hiratsuka, Daisuke - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

Production networks have been extensively developed in the Asia-Pacific region. This paper employs two micro-level approaches, case studies and econometric analysis, using JETRO's firm surveys which investigate Japanese affiliates operating in Southeast Asia. These two approaches found that...

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Transport costs, distance, and time : evidence from the Japanese Census of Logistics

Tanaka, Kiyoyasu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2010

has a significantly positive effect on freight costs by air transportation. However, I find the puzzling results that …Geographic distance is a standard proxy for transport costs under the simple assumption that freight fees increase … monotonically over space. Using the Japanese Census of Logistics, this paper examines the extent to which transport distance and …

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Home Market Effect versus Multinationals

Toulemonde, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

. The production of each firm increases when trade costs fall. The fall also induces multinationals to repatriate their …

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The International Firm: A Vehicle for Overcoming Barriers to Trade and a Global Intelligence Organization Diffusing the Notion of a Nation

Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1988

The multinational firm (MNF) is introduced as the intersection between trade theory and the theory of the firm. I show that economies of scale associated with various knowledge inputs have made it possible for firms to grow large through internationalization and, once large, staying competitive...

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The Impact of European Integration on the Nineties’ Wave of Mergers and Acquisitions

Delannay, Anne-France; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume - In: Journal of Economic Integration 21 (2006), pp. 426-446

The present paper applies a gravity model with fixed country effects to M&A flows on a sample of 1215 pairs of countries over the 1998-2001 period, to test the impact of European integration. That model, which had to our knowledge not been applied to M&A flows so far, allows us to observe that...

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