Multinational versus national firms on capital adjustment costs: A structural approach

Artikel

This paper provides an alternative perspective on the firm-level empirical analysis of the relation between foreign ownership and capital demand adjustment in host countries. The author estimates a dynamic structural model of investment on a sample of 4,672 Belgian firms for the period 2003 - 2010, permitting him to distinguish the "ownership status" of firms. He considers a dynamic discrete choice model of a general specification of adjustment costs including convex and non-convex components. The author uses the method of simulated moments in order to estimate the structural parameters. His results indicate that multinationals' affiliates face lower capital adjustment costs than national firms.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal ; ISSN: 1864-6042 ; Volume: 9 ; Year: 2015 ; Issue: 2015-16 ; Pages: 1-22 ; Kiel: Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Multinational Firms; International Business ; Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity ; Capital Budgeting; Fixed Investment and Inventory Studies; Capacity
• Thema: multinational firms ; investment ; capital adjustment costs ; firm-level panel data

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Lapatinas, Athanasios
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
• (wo): Kiel
• (wann): 2015

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2015-16
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/112740
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ