General-Equilibrium Approaches to the Multinational Firm: A Review of Theory and Evidence / James R. Markusen, Keith E. Maskus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Markusen, James R.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Maskus, Keith E.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w8334.

NBER working paper series no. w8334

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

General-Equilibrium Approaches to the Multinational Firm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2001.

Summary:

Beginning in the early 1980s, theoretical analyses have incorporated the multinational firm into the microeconomic, general-equilibrium theory of international trade. Recent advances indicate how vertical and horizontal multinationals arise endogenously as determined by country characteristics, including relative size and relative endowment differences, and trade and investment costs. Results also characterize the relationship between foreign affiliate production and international trade in goods and services. In this paper, we survey some of this recent work, and note the testable predictions generated in the theory. In the second part of the paper, we examine empirical results that relate foreign affiliate production to country characteristics and trade/investment cost factors. We also review findings from analyses of the pattern of substitutability or complementarity between trade and foreign production.

Notes:

Print version record

June 2001.