combine R&D investments with patent data of the world top R&D investors worldwide and show that investment per patent varies …

The impact of information technology (IT) on globalization of the world market is assumed to have a dual economic …

This paper examines the interplay between globalization, product market competition, and corporate investment. We find … that imports and foreign direct investment adversely affect domestic firms' market power, but the effect of imports is more … power is stronger. Internal funds and market power show a complementary effect on corporate investment. Also, the …

investment optimization. Firms adjust capital stocks in each location in accordance withe the expected marginal profitability of … capital. Analysis of 1504 fixed capital investment decisions by Japanese multinational firms confirms the prediction that … investment is not only determined by total factor productivity, effective demand, and wage levels in the host country, but also …