Empirical evidence confirms that trade exposure can shift resources towards the most efficient firms in an industry and induce substantial increases in aggregate productivity. Although recent studies document that much of world trade is controlled by multinational firms, few examine the effect of foreign direct investment decisions on resource allocation and aggregate productivity. This paper p...

foreign direct investment has been a key topic in development literature for a long time. many economists have written articles on the on recipient’s macroeconomic variables, transfer of capital and technology. the improvement of managerial and human resources, promotion of foreign trade with its emphasized role on economic growth of recipients. other economists have an opposite view. they have...

In this paper we investigate how strategic aspects in uence the choice between exporting and servicing foreign markets by setting up a plant in the foreign country. We show that tari s on imports in conjunction with the size of the set up costs incurred while setting up plants and the size of the foreign market will determine whether domestic rms which face competition from a foreign rm will ch...

the main object of this paper is to find out the impact of economic and institutional factors on export of services in considering the example of oic countries. panel data method as an econometrics approach is used for estimating models. results show that variables such as gdp per capita, the real exchange rate, foreign direct investment, and information infrastructures have positive and signif...

The article considers the impact of foreign direct investment on employment in Viet Nam, a country that received considerable inflows of foreign capital in the 1990s as part of its increased integration with the global economy. Despite the significant share of foreign firms in industrial output and exports, the direct employment generated has been very limited because of the high labour product...