FDI and Corporate Geography in the Home Country

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: FIW Working Paper ; No. 51

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; International Factor Movements and International Business: General ; Multinational Firms; International Business ; Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location: General
• Subject: foreign direct investment ; multi-plant firms ; employment ; Italy

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Cappariello, Rita ; Federico, Stefano ; Zizza, Roberta
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): FIW - Research Centre International Economics
• (where): Vienna
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/121053
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET