One of the key factors behind the growth in global trade in recent decades is an increase in intermediate input as a result of the development of vertical production networks (Feensta, 1998). It is widely recognized that the formation of production networks is due to the expansion of...

Research on multinational firms’ activity has been conducted widely since late 1980s. The literature is differentiated into three types: horizontal FDI, vertical FDI, and three-country FDI, represented by export platform FDI. There are other methods of differentiation of the literature by...

Foreign firms have clustered together in the Yangtze River Delta, and their impact on domestic firms is an important policy issue. This paper studies the spatial effect of FDI agglomeration on the regional productivity of domestic firms, using Chinese firm-level data. To identify local FDI...

Does investment liberalization in developing economies affect FDI decisions differently across individual firms? To address this question, we simulate the response of individual firms to reductions in investment costs across developing economies. We explore two policy experiments: elimination of...

This issue of the Journal is devoted to physical integration in Latin America. The Editorial Committee set about designing the contents with a call for papers, which suggested topics and questions that focused on the subject while covering a broad spectrum. Regional physical integration is...

El presente número de la Revista está dedicado a la integración física latinoamericana. Al diseñar los contenidos que se reseñan a continuación, el Comité Editorial procedió de la manera habitual, lanzando una invitación a la presentación de trabajos. El texto de la convocatoria...

El presente número de la Revista está dedicado a la integración física latinoamericana. Al diseñar los contenidos que se reseñan a continuación, el Comité Editorial procedió de la manera habitual, lanzando una invitación a la presentación de trabajos. El texto de la convocatoria...