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Firms in the International Economy : Firm Heterogeneity Meets International Business.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd.
- Series:
- CESifo seminar series.
- CESifo seminar series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International business enterprises.
- International trade.
- International economic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (441 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- The MIT Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- International Economics (IE) and International Business (IB) are usually treated as two separate disciplines. With the advent of new trade theory the firm was reintroduced in IE and the fields more and more discuss the same topics. This book shows that IE as well as IB could benefit from each other.
- Contents:
- CESifo Seminar Series; Contents; Series Foreword; Introduction: Firm Heterogeneity, International Economics, and International Business; I Firm-Specific Advantages; 1 International Business Theory for International Economists; 2 Exports versus Foreign Direct Investments: Evidence from Cross-Country Industry Data; 3 Managerial Characteristics and the Export Decision of Firms; II Firm-Environment Interaction; 4 Foreign Firms and Local Communities; 5 Institutional Quality and FDI to the South
- 6 Heterogeneous Export Spillovers to Chinese Domestic Firms: The Role of the Difficulty to Enter the Destination MarketIII Boundaries of the Firm; 7 Intrafirm and Arm's-Length Trade: How Distance Matters; 8 Make or Buy: On the Organizational Structure of Firms with Asymmetric Suppliers; 9 Global Value Chains during the Great Trade Collapse: A Bullwhip Effect?; IV Innovation and Technology Transfer; 10 Multinationals' Technology Transfers and Firms' Performance; 11 Innovation Offshoring and Inventor Substitution
- 12 Heterogeneous Firms, Trade, and Economic Policy: Insights from a Simple Two-Sector ModelContributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262314473
- 0262314479
- OCLC:
- 865654918
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