On the genesis of multinational foreign affiliate networks

European Economic Review

Volumn 65, Issue , 2014, Pages 136-163

  Egger, Peter ^a,b,c,d,e   Fahn, Matthias ^f   Merlo, Valeria ^c,g   Wamser, Georg ^c,g  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^c CESifo ^*  (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Firm level data; Foreign affiliates; Learning; Location decision; Multinational firms

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; LEARNING; MARKET CONDITIONS; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; PROFITABILITY;

EID: 84889567499     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2013.10.004     Document Type: Article

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