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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957913703321

Autore

Beugelsdijk Sjoerd

Titolo

Firms in the International Economy : Firm Heterogeneity Meets International Business

Pubbl/distr/stampa

The MIT Press, 2013

©2013

ISBN

9780262314473

0262314479

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (441 p.)

Collana

CESifo seminar series

Disciplina

338.8/8

Soggetti

International business enterprises

International trade

International economic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CESifo Seminar Series; Contents; Series Foreword; Introduction: Firm Heterogeneity, International Economics, and International Business; I Firm-Specific Advantages; 1 International Business Theory for International Economists; 2 Exports versus Foreign Direct Investments: Evidence from Cross-Country Industry Data; 3 Managerial Characteristics and the Export Decision of Firms; II Firm-Environment Interaction; 4 Foreign Firms and Local Communities; 5 Institutional Quality and FDI to the South

6 Heterogeneous Export Spillovers to Chinese Domestic Firms: The Role of the Difficulty to Enter the Destination MarketIII Boundaries of the Firm; 7 Intrafirm and Arm's-Length Trade: How Distance Matters; 8 Make or Buy: On the Organizational Structure of Firms with Asymmetric Suppliers; 9 Global Value Chains during the Great Trade Collapse: A Bullwhip Effect?; IV Innovation and Technology Transfer; 10 Multinationals' Technology Transfers and Firms' Performance; 11 Innovation Offshoring and Inventor Substitution

12 Heterogeneous Firms, Trade, and Economic Policy: Insights from a Simple Two-Sector ModelContributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

International Economics (IE) and International Business (IB) are usually



treated as two separate disciplines. With the advent of new trade theory the firm was reintroduced in IE and the fields more and more discuss the same topics. This book shows that IE as well as IB could benefit from each other.