Multinational companies (MNCs) are influenced by their home country institutions. But how does the interaction between home country and host region institutions affect human development in countries with significant regional disparities? To address this question, we collected a unique dataset of...

В статье показана довольно скромная роль стран БРИКС в экспорте прямых инвестиций. Однако доля БРИКС быстро увеличивается благодаря росту российских и...

The purpose of this paper is to compare two recent periods of Brazilian history - the decades of 1970 and 1990 - when foreign direct investments grew above the average of the second half of the XX century. More specifically, it tries to answer two questions. First, which have been the...

This article evaluated the recent changes in the profile and determinants of Brazilian firm's internationalization process. In the '90s, it was not intense, but highly concentrated on a few large domestic companies, and resulted from both strategies: to compensate the low dynamism of the...

Data for the year 1980 reveal seller concentration to be high for domestic sales and exports, but large sellers in the domestic market often fail to rank among the largest exporters. Foreign-owned firms and joint ventures account for more than a quarter of sales in the domestic market and more...

This paper examines whether and, if so, why source country heterogeneity exists in foreign direct investment (FDI). Using detailed data on all Swedish firms for the period from 1996 to 2009, we find statistical evidence that affiliate performance differs systematically across source countries....