investments (FDI) in the US. In contrast to earlier work, this paper puts special emphasis on controlling for Marshallian … externalities may, if not accounted for appropriately, be falsely attributed to FDI. This paper also deals with the potential … endogeneity of FDI and the presence of spatial lags by employing a system generalized method of moments (GMM) estimator. We use a …

We show in a dynamic investment setting whether firms choose FDI or international portfolio investment (FPI) in the … presence of stochastic productivity taking into account differences in flexibility of both investments. Isolated FPI and FDI … investments are compared to combined FPI and FDI investments. FDI requires higher investment specific costs than FPI. Thus, it is …

cooperation, and thus that empirical evidence is not in accordance with the tested models. Further, it seems that by means of FDI …

foreign location and the headquarters deter FDI investments. Manufacturing and older companies are more likely to establish …

We integrate international business theory on foreign direct investment (FDI) with institutional theory on intellectual … region with an IPR regimegap visàvis West European countries. We start from the premise that FDI may play a crucial role for …. In terms of economic policy, this leads to the conclusion that the FDI will have a larger developmental impact if the IPR …

between export and FDI. The model combines the proximity-concentration trade-off framework with the real option methodology … introduction of productivity growth increases the likeliness of first time market entry through FDI. If the firm is confronted with … uncertain productivity growth, market entry through FDI increases even further. Uncertainty is identified as a compounding force …

The People's Republic of China (PRC) has received enormous inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) in recent years … perspectives on their relative importance for the three countries involved. We also analyze the industrial composition of FDI flows … over time. US FDI flows to the PRC have been less concentrated in manufacturing than average for investors in the PRC while …

This paper extends the existing literature on FDI and wage inequality. We do this in two ways. Firstly, we incorporate … and vertical FDI. Secondly, after establishing the effects that inward investment has on wage inequality, we then analyse … has on this. We illustrate the important differences that horizontal and vertical FDI have on both wages and wage …