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| Title: | | Proximity-concentration versus factor proportion explanation: The case of Swedish multinationals in the EU  |
| Authors: | | Mathä, Thomas |
| Issue Date: | | 2000 |
| Series/Report no.: | | SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance 416 |
| Abstract: | | Both proximity-concentration trade-off and factor proportions explanations have been forwarded to explain the existence of multinational enterprises. This paper analyses to what extent these different explanations are supported empirically, in making a first attempt to distinguish explicitly between horizontally and vertically integrated multinationals. The affiliate production share of horizontally integrated multinationals is mainly explained by low plant-level economies of scale, large host country size and similarities in relative factor endowments. Differences for vertical multinationals appear with regard to firm- and plant-level economies of scale, country size, trade costs and relative factor endowments at the national and sectoral level. |
| Subjects: | | Trade Costs Country Size Factor Endowments Horizontal & Vertical Multinationals |
| JEL: | | F12 F21 F23 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance, EFI - The Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics
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