This paper presents recent trends in the foreign activities of Swedish multinationals. The focus is on the distribution of production and R&D between the MNCs' domestic and foreign units, and the pattern of trade within the firms. Issues concerning entry modes and the importance of information...

We propose a simple model to analyze the widespread idea that a necessary condition for firms to make foreign direct investments is that they have firm-specific advantages with respect to host country firms. We show that no such advantages are necessary to become multinationals. Further, firms...

This paper contributes to research endogenizing multinational firms in general-equilibrium trade models. We attempt to integrate separate contributions on horizontal multinationals which produce the same final product in multiple locations, with work on vertical multinationals, which...

This paper analyzes the simultaneous relationship between R&D and foreign sales in Swedish multinational enterprises in the manufacturing sector. We argue that this two-way relationship should especially apply to multinationals based in small open economices due to the firms' high dependence on...

This paper analyzes a three-stage game where two firms choose (i) their respective technology, by deciding on a level of R&D, (ii) whether this technology is to be used in a domestic or in a local plant and (iii) the quantity produced and sold on the market. If technology transfer costs are...

This paper examines whether Swedish multinational enterprises tranfer R&D- generated knowledge to their foreign affiliates. The empirical results suggest that such technology transfer takes place from parent compagnies to affiliates, espacially in the case of newly established affiliates.

This paper analyses the effect on agglomeration tendencies of allowing firms to become multi-region firms in a standard model of trade and location. More specifically, we introduce horizontal and vertical multi-region firms into the core-periphery (CP) model developed by Krugman (1991). The...

We propose a simple ,odel to analyze the widespread idea that a necessary condtion from firms to make foreign direct investments is that thay have firm-pecific advantage with respect to host country firms.

This paper contributes to research endogenizing multinational firms in general equilibrium trade Models.

This paper analyzes the utilization of R&D results in the home and foreign plants of Swedish maltinational enterprises (MNEs). The empirical findings indicate that the firms' R&D undertaken in the home country is used as an input in both the home and foreign plants of the MNEs.