Regulatory theorists have engaged in an interesting debate over the merits of “collaborative governance.” The term refers to those governance approaches in which regulators, industry and other stakeholders work together on drafting and enforcing rules. Proponents of collaborative governance...

Since firms conduct FDI for different reasons, we examine FDI location choice while accounting for both the locations' and the firms' traits using a random parameter logistic regression. Firm traits, as indirect indicators of likely motives, determine whether and how much a firm will value...

Using the Benchmark and Annual Surveys of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad collected by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the authors examine the operations of U.S. multinational corporations (MNCs) in seven manufacturing industries and twenty-two countries over the years 1982-91. They analyze how...

This paper investigates the effects of agglomeration economies and state-level promotion policies on the location of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the United States between 1977 and 1996. Specifically, it analyzes the level of foreign-owned real gross property, plant, and equipment (PPE)...

Despite an extensive literature on the determinants of the foreign location choices by multinational companies, researchers have only recently begun to systematically examine how these companies form their location consideration sets. When considering new foreign locations, do firms evaluate the...