Using data on Italy's outward foreign direct investment (FDI) flows by sector, source province and destination country between 1997 and 2001, this paper studies the determinants of Italy's foreign direct investment (FDI). The aim is to identify the industrial structure and local characteristics...

This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the home-country effects of FDI. Instead of comparing FDI firms to non-FDI firms, we look at what happens within multi-plant FDI firms and we compare headquarters to onheadquarter plants belonging to the same firm. Using survey data on...