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The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms

Alfaro, Laura; Chen, Maggie - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2009

The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly transforming the global landscape of industrial production. But are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What drives the offshore agglomeration of multinational firms in comparison to...

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Business Environment and Comparative Advantage in Africa: Evidence from the Investment Climate Data

Eifert, Benn; Gelb, Alan; Ramachandran, Vijaya - 2005

This paper ties together the macroeconomic and microeconomic evidence on the competitiveness of African manufacturing sectors. The conceptual framework is based on the newer theories that see the evolution of comparative advantage as influenced by the business climate -- a key public good -- and...

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Characteristics of Foreign-Owned Firms in British Manufacturing

Griffith, Rachel; Simpson, Helen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

This paper describes the characteristics of manufacturing establishments in Britain over the period 1980 to 1996, paying particular attention to differences between establishments of different ownership nationalities. The findings suggest that establishments that are always foreign-owned have...

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Companies’ market penetration and activity patterns in european market

Neamtu, Liviu; Neamtu, Adina Claudia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The strategy type at the company level has an impact upon the selection and implementation of the strategy at the business level. The international strategy at the company level is different from the international strategy at the business level through the diversification extension degree (both...

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Approaching european market and capital allocation on different external markets

Neamtu, Liviu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Companies and capitals may face different variants of European markets, being necessary to classify these markets by establishing their importance within the whole strategy of the company. Another goal is the wish to cover as many of these markets as possible under maximum efficiency conditions...

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The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms

Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang; Alfaro, Laura - Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP), … - 2010

The proliferation of multinational activities has led to the emergence of new industrial clusters around the world. In this paper, we examine how "first nature" location fundamentals and "second nature" agglomeration economies jointly determine the global landscape of multinational firms. Using...

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Foreign Rivals are Coming to Town: Responding to the Threat of Foreign Multinational Entry

Ge Bao, Cathy; Chen, Maggie - Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP), … - 2014

How do domestic Örms respond to the threat of foreign competition? This paper quantifies the threat of competition from foreign multinational firms by exploring investment news that appear in over 35,000 newspapers, trade presses, magazines, newswires, and other forms of media in 200 countries....

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The global agglomeration of multinational firms

Alfaro, Laura; Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang - In: Journal of International Economics 94 (2014) 2, pp. 263-276

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Wirtschaftliche Verflechtungen im Grenzraum Sachsen – Böhmen – Niederschlesien

Lehmann, Robert; Steinbrecher, Johannes; Thum, Marcel - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …

wirtschaftlichen Integration zwischen Deutschland, der Tschechischen Republik und Polen. Von Interesse sind dabei insbesondere die … sächsischen Grenzregionen sowie die Nachbarregionen in Polen und Tschechien. <br>In der Untersuchung werden zunächst die …. <br>Die Studie zeigt den hohen wirtschaftlichen Verflechtungsgrad zwischen Sachsen, Polen und der Tschechischen Republik …

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Wybrane problemy współpracy polsko-czeskiej : gospodarka i infrastruktura

Korenik, Stanisław (contributor) - 2012

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