Multinational Firms, Technology and Location

Arbeitspapier

This paper analyzes a three-stage optimization problem in which a firm chooses (i) its technology, by deciding on a level of R&D, (ii) whether this technology is to be used in a domestic or in a foreign plant and (iii) the quantity produced and sold on the market. If technology transfer costs are low, 'high-tech' or R&D-intensive firms tend to produce abroad. At higher technology transfer costs, high-tech firms tend to export. An empirical analysis using a data set of Swedish multinational firms, confirms the latter prediction.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IUI Working Paper ; No. 512

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Multinational Firms; International Business ; Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
• Subject: Multinational Firms ; R&D ; Location ; Empirical Analyses ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; Industrieforschung ; Betriebliche Standortwahl ; Nash-Gleichgewicht ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Norbäck, Pehr-Johan
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI)
• (where): Stockholm
• (when): 1999

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/95091
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET