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
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: FIW Working Paper ; No. 51

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

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

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Cappariello, Rita
  • Federico, Stefano
  • Zizza, Roberta
  • FIW - Research Centre International Economics

Time of origin

  • 2010

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