Arbeitspapier
FDI and Corporate Geography in the Home Country
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 Italian industrial firms, we find that in FDI firms non-headquarter plants show a significantly worse performance in terms of employment and investment than headquarter plants. This suggests that the home-country effects of FDI tend to be biased in favour of headquarters.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: FIW Working Paper ; No. 51
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
International Factor Movements and International Business: General
Multinational Firms; International Business
Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location: General
- Subject
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foreign direct investment
multi-plant firms
employment
Italy
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Cappariello, Rita
Federico, Stefano
Zizza, Roberta
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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FIW - Research Centre International Economics
- (where)
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Vienna
- (when)
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2010
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Cappariello, Rita
- Federico, Stefano
- Zizza, Roberta
- FIW - Research Centre International Economics
Time of origin
- 2010