multinationals depend on the level of productivity and the exporting status of the domestic firm. Larger and more productive firms … are more able to reap spillovers from multinationals than smaller and less productive firms. The export status, in …

This paper, dealing with heterogeneity among multinationals, examines the performance differences between and within … foreign owned firms and domestic multinationals in Italy. For the empirical analysis a non-parametric approach based on the … sales and leverage. Robust results are found within domestic multinationals, the parent firms investing only in developed …

This paper investigates the performance differences across and within foreign-owned firms and domestic multinationals …. Overall, the results provide evidence of remarkable heterogeneity across and within multinationals. In particular, it seems … outperform domestic multinationals. Interesting results are obtained when focusing on ROS and ROI, where the profitability gaps …

This paper studies the strategic behavior of multinationals towards weak labor standards in developing countries (South … locating in the South casting doubts on traditional beliefs that multinationals are always attracted to lower wages. Adopting …

This paper investigates whether the size of multinationals? real investments in a high-tax country is affected by …

buffer stock for liquidity of financially constrained firms. Although the reinvestment of multinationals' earning is …

availability of services in the home country indeed has a positive impact on firms' decisions to become multinationals. This is …

transportsector dominated by multinationals and economies of scale in a modelof thenew trade theory leads to different predictions …