From Beijing to Bentonville
Subtitle: Do multinational retailers link markets?
By: Keith Head, Ran Jing, Deborah L. Swenson
Contributors: Jing, Ran; Swenson, Deborah L.; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16288; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16288.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "Each of the world's largest retailers---Walmart, Carrefour, Tesco, and Metro---entered China after 1995.  Their subsequent expansion in China may have influenced Chinese exports through two channels.  First, they may have enhanced bilateral exports between the retailers' Chinese operations and destination countries also served by stores in the retailers' networks.  Second, Chinese city-level exports to all destinations may have grown if multinational retailer presence enhanced the general export capabilities of local suppliers.  Evidence from Chinese city-level retail goods exports supports the capability hypothesis as the expansion of Chinese city exports follows the geographic expansion of the retailers' Chinese stores and global procurement centers"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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