Optimal integration strategies for the multinational firm
By: Gene M. Grossman, Elhanan Helpman, Adam Szeidl.
Contributors: Helpman, Elhanan.; Szeidl, Adam.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10189; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10189.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: International business enterprises -- Management.
Description: "We examine integration strategies of multinational firms that face a rich array of choices of international organization.  Each firm in an industry must provide headquarter services from its home country, produce intermediate inputs, and assemble the intermediate goods into final products.  Both production of intermediate goods and assembly can be performed at home, in another Northern' country, in the low-wage South,' or in several of these locations.  We study the equilibrium choices of firms that differ in productivity (and thus size), focusing on the role of industry characteristics such as the fixed costs of foreign subsidiaries, the cost of transporting intermediate and final goods, and the share of the consumer market that resides in the South in determining optimal integration strategies"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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