Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/260188 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2016:16
Publisher: 
Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Lund
Abstract: 
Using Swedish firm-level data on all firms and their affiliates abroad, we investigate what observable firm and country characteristics affect the size of affiliate firms in a particular destination. We employ the richness of the data to investigate the importance of destination country factors in explaining firm outward FDI activities and distinguish between the factors that affect such activities in manufacturing versus services firms as well as vertical versus horizontal investments. Our results lend support to existing theories of multinational activity, including observable differences between vertical and horizontal manufacturing firms, as well as between services and manufacturing FDI firms.
Subjects: 
outward FDI
globalization
FDI destination
heterogeneous firms
JEL: 
F10
F20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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