overall affiliate sales. Although quantitatively important, this Export-Supporting FDI (ESFDI) activity has received little … attention in the literature. This paper includes ESFDI into a model of trade and horizontal FDI with heterogeneous firms. ESFDI … in the home country. This introduces some complementarity between trade and FDI. In the model falling trade costs lead to …

overall affiliate sales. Although quantitatively important, this Export-Supporting FDI (ESFDI) activity has received little … attention in the literature. This paper includes ESFDI into a model of trade and horizontal FDI with heterogeneous firms. ESFDI … in the home country. This introduces some complementarity between trade and FDI. In the model falling trade costs lead to …

analysis of distribution-oriented FDI has, however, received little attention which is at least partly due to the lack of …-oriented FDI is based on the trade-off between fixed and variable costs. …

analysis of distribution-oriented FDI has, however, received little attention which is at least partly due to the lack of …-oriented FDI is based on the trade-off between fixed and variable costs. -- Multinational firms ; Wholesale sales ; Discrete choice …

Economic theory provides two main explanations why changes in exchange rates can affect foreign direct investment (FDI …). According to a first explanation, FDI reacts to exchange rate changes if there are information frictions on capital markets and … explanation, FDI reacts to exchange rate changes if output and factor markets are segmented, and if firm-specific assets are …

costs have a negative impact on the decision to engage in FDI. …