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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment

By: Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton
We use a new firm level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries—close to a comprehensive picture of global multinational activity. A number of patterns emerge from the data. Most foreign direct investment... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Activity; Horizontal FDI; Vertical FDI; Stages Of Production; Multinational Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Foreign Direct Investment; Competency and Skills; Production
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  • 21 Sep 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Andrew Charlton
  • Research Summary

Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment (joint with Andrew Charlton)

By: Laura Alfaro
We identify a new type of vertical foreign direct investment (FDI) made up of multinational subsidiaries producing intermediate inputs, which are of similar skill intensity to the final goods produced by their parents, and which are overwhelmingly located in high skill... View Details
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment

By: Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton
We use a new firm level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries -- close to a comprehensive picture of global multinational activity. A number of patterns emerge from the data. Most foreign direct investment... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Foreign Direct Investment; Geographic Location; Supply and Industry; Vertical Integration
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  • December 2009
  • Article

Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment

By: Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton
We use a new firm-level dataset that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries. Using a combination of four-digit-level information and input-output tables, we find the share of vertical FDI (subsidiaries that provide... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Competency and Skills; Foreign Direct Investment; Geographic Location; Multinational Firms and Management; Industry Structures; Production
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance

By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen
We examine in this paper the differential response of establishments to the global financial crisis, with particular emphasis on the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in determining micro economic performance. Using a new worldwide dataset that reports the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Local Range; Multinational Firms and Management; Production; Performance Evaluation; Networks
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  • 29 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 29

explore three distinct channels through which FDI affects establishment performance: (i) production linkages, (ii) financial linkages, and (iii) multinational networks. Our analysis shows that while multinational-owned establishments... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 23, 2007

  Working PapersFacts and Fallacies about U.S. FDI in China Authors:Lee Branstetter and C. Fritz Foley Abstract Despite the rapid expansion of U.S.-China trade ties, the increase in U.S. FDI in China, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

A number of patterns emerge from the data. Most foreign direct investment (FDI) occurs between rich countries. The share of vertical FDI (subsidiaries which provide inputs to their parent firms) is larger... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 22

we find the share of vertical FDI (subsidiaries that provide inputs to their parent firms) to be larger than commonly thought, even within developed countries. Most subsidiaries are not readily explained by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

forthcoming World Bank Economic Review Productivity Gains from Foreign Direct Investment: Macro and Micro Approaches By: Alfaro, Laura Abstract—This paper discussed the importance of an “integrated approach” to the study of the effects of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

competition between the FASB and the IASB would allow GAAP to better respond to market forces. Download the paper: http://intranet.hbs.edu/dept/drfd/papers/0809/09-137.pdf Vertical Merger, Collusion, and Disruptive Buyers Authors:Volker... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

outcome? Would similar problems arise in Gujarat state, where the project had been relocated? Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709029   PublicationsAre Licensing Markets Local? An Analysis of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

differences, due to essentially geographic factors, in absolute costs/availability: Spices, to take just one example, could be grown in the East Indies but not in Northern Europe. The same was essentially true of the global whaling fleets of the late 18th century, and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

strategic alliances could be optimal. We expect that, given institutional knowledge about a particular setting, our broad theoretical framework can be specialized to deliver testable predictions for that setting (as has occurred in some analogous work on View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

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others with expertise in the field, "Africa Rising" will offer big picture understandings of the continent, and the ways in which its past informs the present. At the same time, the course will take deep, vertical looks at both the... View Details