We consider the plant location decision of a multinational corporation (MNC), which has the option to invest in a more or in a less technologically lagging country, and which aims to use its foreign plant as an export-platform. We show that the plant location decision of the MNC depends on...

We use a panel of 9,381 UK firms over the period 1993-2003 to study the links between firms' financial health and their global engagement status. We estimate error-correction inventory investment equations augmented with financial variables, and interpret the sensitivity of inventory investment...