This paper examines whether the rank of Japanese firms’ (using 12,504 firm level dataset) productivity sorts the modes of their internationalization and how firms’ productivity affects their choice of export and FDI to destinations with similar income level. The empirical results...

This paper examines how differently productivity heterogeneity of firms sorts their export and foreign direct investment (FDI) between North and South as well as between single and multiple destinations. The empirical examinations based on 12,000 Japanese firm-level data present new findings;...

It is noteworthy that intra-firm technology transfer has grown rapidly in recent years as a major part of international technology transfer. This paper presents empirical analysis of the effect of stronger Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) on technology transfer from parent firm to its...