in the same region is associated with increasing productivity of local firms, especially in form of cross …

first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of foreign …

productivity, both theoretically and empirically. In the theoretical framework, we place Irarrazabal, Moxnes and Opromolla’s (2009 … monopolistically competitive firms and comparative advantage; and show that ex ante high average industry productivity triggered by … firm self-selection enhances ex post average industry productivity during the process of increase in FDI. Using Korean …

interactions between MP and trade. According to the model with MP, supply-side productivity shocks contributed to the collapse of … to shocks that affected aggregate productivity and were specific to multinationals in a few key headquarters countries …. The MP links significantly amplified the impact of these shocks on the rest of the world, which had a much greater impact …

overall affiliate sales. Although quantitatively important, this Export-Supporting FDI (ESFDI) activity has received little … is characterized by export-supporting distribution and service activities in the foreign market while production remains …

that incorporate multinational firms achieve tractability by assuming away export platforms - i.e. they do not allow … foreign affiliates of multinationals to export - or by ignoring fixed costs associated with foreign investment. I develop a … quantifiable multi-country general equilibrium model, which tractably handles multinational firms that engage in export platform …