Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been an area that has invoked interest both among researchers and policy makers. FDI is one of those areas, which has benefits both for the host country and the home country. Multinational corporations or foreign firms are supposed to have frontier technology,...

Demand for skilled labour from multinational firms is also high which might lead to movement of skilled labour from domestic firms. To prevent such movement domestic firms might feel the pressure to increase their wages. Also, productivity spillovers from foreign firms may increase productivity...

Through using firm level data for the manufacturing industries in Vietnam, the paper examines whether the presence of foreign firms influences the decision of domestic firms to export or not, and whether foreign firms influence the intensity of exports by domestic firms. In contrast with most...

This paper assesses the effect on total factor productivity (TFP) of a change in the status of a firm from domestic producer to either exporter or subsidiary of a multinational firm. It is an extension of earlier work that looks solely on the effect of exporting on TFP (Girma et al, 2003 and...

This paper investigates the relationship between firm heterogeneity and a firm's decision to export, using the annual survey of Thai manufacturing firms from 2001 to 2004. A significant contribution of this paper is that we are, for the first time, able to break down FDI by country of origin to...

Our focus is the effects of exchange rate movements on firm decisions on export market entry and export intensity. Using data on UK manufacturing firms we find that exchange rate movements have little effect on firm export participation but have a significant impact on export shares. We also...

Multinational labor demand responds to wage differentials at the extensive margin, when a multinational enterprise (MNE) expands into foreign locations, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE operates existing affiliates across locations. We derive conditions for parametric and nonparametric...

This paper examines the agglomeration effects of multinational firms on the location decisions of first-time Japanese manufacturing investors in China for the period 1995–2007. This is accomplished by exploiting newly constructed measures of inter-firm backward and forward linkages formed in a...

I estimate establishment level total factor productivity (TFP) convergence using panel data from India's manufacturing sector from 2001-2015. I examine the presence of foreign owned establishments within each industry's productivity frontier, and allow for the speed of productivity convergence...

This paper attempts to apply the intangible assets approach to the emerging multinational enterprises of Korea. More specifically, it tries to empirically analyze whether Korean firms investing in foreign markets possess more advanced intangible assets than those investing only in the domestic...