Over the period 1980-2007 multinational firms' investment grew four times faster than worldwide GDP. Yet the evidence on whether global diversification is valuable is inconclusive. This paper uses detailed FDI data for 251 UK multinational firms and 4,676 subsidiaries to show that multinational...

This article investigates retailers' choice of foreign markets using a spatial-interaction model that takes into account factors related to the attractiveness of a given market as well as distance to that market. While gravity and spatial-interaction models have a long tradition in retailing...

The specter of a less-integrated world economy is real. The paper discusses to what extent trade protectionism and economic conflicts are affecting the composition and dynamism of foreign direct investment flows

Most international commerce is carried out by multinational firms, which use their foreign affiliates both to serve the market of the host country and to export to other markets outside the host country. In this paper, I examine the determinants of multinational firms' location and production...

Szunomár offers a much-needed summary of the theoretical framework of foreign direct investment (FDI), as well as the concept of internationalization in order to show that traditional theories seem to be insufficient in explaining FDI decisions of emerging multinational enterprises (MNEs)....