The Role of Skill Endowments in the Structure of U.S. Outward Foreign Direct Investment

By S. Yeaple. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003

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Technology and Production Fragmentation: Domestic versus Foreign Sourcing (2016, background): “I then provide three novel facts about domestic and foreign fragmentation, as well as new evidence on the relationship between communication technology and fragmentation.”
Investment Climate and FDI in Developing Countries: Firm-Level Evidence (2010, background): “Most of the studies on FDI location using micro-level data focused on variables such as R&D, factor cost differences, advertising expenditures, wages, trade cost, market size or taxation (Disdier and Mayer 2004, Carr et al. 2001, Yeaple 2003, Hanson et al. 2001).”
How Firms Export: Processing vs. Ordinary Trade with Financial Frictions (2016, unknown): “…activities in which the operating enterprise receives materials/parts from a foreign enterprise without needing to pay foreign exchange for the import, and carries out processing or assembling with the materials/parts 2 See, for example, Helpman (1984), Hanson et al. (2005), and Yeaple (2003).”
It matters where you go: Outward foreign direct investment and multinational employment growth at home (2010, background): “Received 13 June 2008 Received in revised form 14 July 2009 Accepted 15 July 2009”
The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms (2014, background): “See Yeaple (2003) for theoretical work and Chen (2011) for supportive empirical evidence in this area.”
Robust FDI determinants: Bayesian Model Averaging in the presence of selection bias (2012, unknown): “Yeaple (2003) utilizes affiliate sales to their parent companies to interact factor endowment differences with industry factor intensities.”
International Trade, Multinational Activity, and Corporate Finance (2015, unknown): “Yeaple (2013) discusses this literature in depth.”
Organizations and Trade (2009, background): “Yeaple (2003b), Grossman, Helpman, and Szeidl (2006), and Ekholm, Forslid, and Markusen (2007) all study rich theoretical frameworks that unveil interesting complementarities between these two forms of MNE expansion.”
Environmental regulation and foreign direct investment: Evidence from South Korea (2014, unknown): “The literature has typically focused on factor endowments, such as skilled labor and physical capital, and found evidence that countries with an abundant factor endowment attract more foreign investors in industries that use the given factor intensively (e.g., Antràs, 2003; Yeaple, 2003).”
A race to the bottom? Employment protection and foreign direct investment (2013, background): “While this composite index certainly does not capture all relevant factors that influence 4There are many other types of ’complex’FDI that are variations of these three basic components (Yeaple 2003).”
Adaptation and the Boundary of Multinational Firms (2011, background): “Received for publication January 15, 2009. Revision accepted for publication October 1, 2009. * Costinot: MIT and NBER; Oldenski: Georgetown University; Rauch: UCSD and NBER. We thank Bob Gibbons, Richard Baldwin, and participants in the 2008 Hitotsubashi COE conference for useful comments. All erro”