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The Location of Domestic and Foreign Production Affiliates by French Multinational Firms

By Isabelle Mejean, Thierry Mayer, Benjamin Nefussi

January 1, 2010

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Isabelle Mejean, Thierry Mayer, and Benjamin Nefussi. The Location of Domestic and Foreign Production Affiliates by French Multinational Firms, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2010) accessed November 8, 2024
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Summary

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.

Subject: Balance of payments, Econometric analysis, Economic sectors, Employment, Foreign direct investment, Labor, Logit models, Production, Productivity, Transnational corporations

Keywords: Choices of affiliate location, Conditional logit model, Dependent variable, Employment, Europe, Firm level, Firm's network, Fixed cost, Foreign direct investment, Input-producing firm, Investing firm, Location choice, Logit models, Multi-national firm, Multinational firms, Network variable, Production establishment, Productivity, Standard deviation, Transnational corporations, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    32

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2010/022

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2010022

  • ISBN:

    9781451962345

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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