This paper deals with the measurement of motives for foreign direct investment (FDI). Due to a lack of information …, several indirect measures exist in order to classify multinational firms into the two main types of FDI. While vertical … country and the subsidiary in the target country. The question arises as to how reliable this measure is for identifying FDI …

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 …

with host-country financial development affecting multinationals' incentives for horizontal, vertical and platform FDI …

FDI inflows in the European Union countries are influenced by the total fiscal wedge on labour more than the corporate tax … immediate) information.The estimated elasticities of FDI inflows to fiscal variables suggest that a high-taxation country might … draw considerable benefits in terms of FDI through a relatively modest tax rate reduction. This means that not necessarily …

In this paper we study the choice between exporting and foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Cournot duopoly … framework. First, we identify the conditions necessary for exporting and FDI, depending on costs of exporting and the cost of … include: a monopoly FDI equilibrium, a monopoly exporting equilibrium, a domestic monopoly equilibrium, a duopoly FDI …