Factor prices and factor substitution in U.S. firms' manufacturing affiliates abroad
By: Maria Borga, Robert E. Lipsey.
Contributors: Lipsey, Robert E.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10442; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10442.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Manufacturing industries -- United States.; Corporations, American.
Description: "Using confidential individual firm data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis survey of U.S.  firms' manufacturing operations abroad, we investigate the determinants of capital intensity in affiliate operations.  Host country labor cost, the scale of host country production, and the capital intensity of the parent firm's production in the United States, are all significant influences.  The parent's capital intensity is the strongest and most consistent determinant of affiliate capital intensity.  Affiliates that export are more sensitive to these factors in their choice of factor proportions than affiliates that sell only in their host countries"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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