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Most international commerce is carried out by multinational firms, which use their foreign affiliates for the majority of their foreign sales. In this paper, I examine the determinants of multinational firms' location and production decisions and the welfare implications of multinational...
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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 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012991028
We analyze whether firms that establish their first affiliate in a foreign country have a different pattern of growth in output, employment, capital and productivity than firms that remain national. We use firm-level data on German multinational activities and appropriate matching techniques to...
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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 …
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Faktorausstattung zweier Länder basiert. Das zweite Kapitel liefert eine Theorie zu Offshoring unter Imitationsrisiko. Diese Theorie …
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What determines whether or not multinational firms transplant their mode of organisation to other countries? We embed the theory of knowledge hierarchies in an industry equilibrium model of monopolistic competition to examine how the economic environment may affect the decision of a...
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What determines whether or not multinational firms transplant the mode of organisation to other countries? We embed the theory of knowledge hierarchies in an industry equilibrium model of monopolistic competition to examine how the economic environment may affect the decision of multinational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860290
What determines whether or not multinational firms transplant their mode of organisation to other countries? We embed the theory of knowledge hierarchies in an industry equilibrium model of monopolistic competition to examine how the economic environment may affect the decision of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009741846
What determines whether or not multinational firms transplant the mode of organisation to other countries? We embed the theory of knowledge hierarchies in an industry equilibrium model of monopolistic competition to examine how the economic environment may affect the decision of multinational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119950