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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957530403321

Autore

Mejean Isabelle

Titolo

The Location of Domestic and Foreign Production Affiliates by French Multinational Firms / / Isabelle Mejean, Thierry Mayer, Benjamin Nefussi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2010

ISBN

9786612845307

9781462304295

146230429X

9781452776286

1452776288

9781451962345

1451962347

9781282845305

1282845306

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

31 p. : ill

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

MayerThierry

NefussiBenjamin

Disciplina

338.102356

Soggetti

Investments, Foreign

Investments

Aggregate Human Capital

Aggregate Labor Productivity

Balance of payments

Corporate Finance

Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models

Discrete Regressors

Econometric analysis

Econometric models

Econometrics & economic statistics

Econometrics

Economic Integration

Economic sectors

Economic theory

Employment

Exports and Imports

Finance

Foreign direct investment

Income economics

Industrial productivity



Intergenerational Income Distribution

International business enterprises

International Business

International Investment

Labor

Labour

Logit models

Long-term Capital Movements

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics: Production

Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies

Multinational Firms

Multinationals

Production and Operations Management

Production

Productivity

Proportions

Transnational corporations

Unemployment

Wages

France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- I Introduction -- II Theory and empirical implementation -- A Assumptions -- B Location decisions -- C Empirical implementation -- III Data -- A The dependent variable: Investments abroad and at home -- 1 Individual features of investing firms -- B "Standard" covariates -- C Supply Access -- 1 Supply Access -- D Sectoral and Firm-level Networks -- 2 Summary statistics on the network variables -- E Trends in the location of French-owned manufacturing establishments -- 2 Distribution of French FDI by Geographical Zone -- 3 Investments by French firms: Domestic/Foreign -- 4 French investments and Market Size -- IV Results for foreign affiliates -- 3 Conditional Logit for the Location of Foreign Investments -- V Results on foreign and domestic investments -- A Conditional logit -- 4 Conditional Logit for the Location of Domestic and Foreign Investment -- 5 Coefficient on Domestic Investment over Time -- 6 Coefficient on Investment in Ex-colonies over Time -- 5 Conditional Logit for the Location of Domestic and Foreign Investments by MNCs -- B Nested logit -- 6 Nested Logit France/RoW Choice -- VI Conclusion -- References -- Footnotes.

Sommario/riassunto

Economists interested in location choices usually focus their attention on investments abroad. This neglects the fact that multinational enterprises continue to invest domestically while undertaking foreign expansion. This paper compares investments at home and abroad. Our firm-level dataset shows an important home bias in productive



investments. Part of this "excessive" domestic investment is explained by standard determinants of location choices. The interdependence between affiliates of the same industrial group however accounts for the lion's share of the home bias. Moreover, French firms' propensity to invest abroad is positively related to their productivity and the size of their intangible assets.