Helpman, Elhanan; Melitz, Marc J.; Yeaple, Stephen R. - 2021
firms to serve foreign markets either through exports or local subsidiary sales (FDI). These modes of market access involve … serve the overseas market via FDI. The paper then explores several implications of the individual firms' decisions for … aggregate export and FDI sales relative to the domestic and foreign market sizes. In particular, it is shown that firm level …