This paper studies international joint ventures, where foreign direct investment is performed by a foreign and a domestic firm that together set up a new firm, the joint venture. Employing administrative data on all international joint ventures in China from 1998 to 2007 - roughly a quarter of...

"Innovation and international trade are two important drivers of economic growth. These two activities perform differently under different types of market competition. This book - a collection of several important research publications by Larry D Qiu - discusses innovation and international...

This paper studies international joint ventures, where foreign direct investment is performed by a foreign and a domestic firm that together set up a new firm, the joint venture. Employing administrative data on all international joint ventures in China from 1998 to 2007--roughly a quarter of...

We develop a three-country heterogeneous-firm model and show that FDI liberalization in one foreign country (F1) results in the following: (i) some firms from the home country switch from export to FDI in F1; (ii) skilled labor¡¯s wage rate drops in the home country; (iii) wage inequality...

Evidence shows that most foreign direct investment (FDI) flows from developed to developed countries (North–North) in skilled labor-intensive industries. This paper builds a model that incorporates labor training into the proximity–concentration tradeoffs to analyze the entry mode of...