General-equilibrium approaches to the multinational firm

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General-Equilibrium Approaches to the Multinational Firm: A Review of Theory and Evidence James R. Markusen, Keith E. Maskus. NBER Working Paper No. Issued in June NBER Program(s):International Trade and Investment.

Get this from a library. General-equilibrium approaches to the multinational firm: a review of theory and evidence. [James R Markusen; Keith E Maskus; National Bureau of Economic Research.]. Abstract: Beginning in the early s, theoretical analyses have incorporated the multinational firm into the microeconomic, general-equilibrium theory of international trade.

Beginning in the early s, theoretical analyses have incorporated the multinational firm into the microeconomic, general-equilibrium theory of international trade.

General‐Equilibrium Approaches to the Multinational Enterprise: A Review of Theory and Evidence. The Vertical Model of the Multinational Firm.

A Horizontal or “Proximity‐Concentration” Approach Trade Versus Affiliate Production in the Knowledge‐Capital Model. Econometric Studies of General‐Equilibrium Models of the. Beginning in the early s, theoretical analyses have incorporated the multinational firm into the microeconomic, general-equilibrium theory of international by: From the early s, theoretical analyses have incorporated the multinational firm into the microeconomic, general-equilibrium theory of international trade.

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Maskus. Lakshman, in Doing Business in India, Macroeconomic context. The multinational firm also needs to make an assessment of the unique nature of the macroeconomic context of emerging markets, in general, but India, in particular.

Although emerging markets share many of these characteristics, the nature of Indian financial markets is very different from all the other BRIC nations in that.

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This book highlights the economic and political foundations of global economic integration and supplies the tools to understand the growing economic conflicts between advanced economics and large emerging markets such as China and India.

“ The Multinational Firm and International Regulation “ General Equilibrium Approaches to the. General equilibrium theory is a central point of contention and influence between the neoclassical school and other schools of economic thought, and different schools have varied views on general equilibrium theory.

Some, such as the Keynesian and Post-Keynesian schools, strongly reject general equilibrium theory as "misleading" and "useless". The traditional American model of multinational enterprise (MNE), characterized by foreign direct investment (FDI) aimed at exploiting firm-specific capabilities developed at home and a gradual country-by-country approach of internationalization, dominated the global economy during much of the post-World War II period.

In the last two decades, however, new MNEs from emerging, upper. This article provides a critical survey of some of the theories that have sought to explain why multinational enterprises (MNEs) exist, with special emphasis on the transaction costs/internalization approach.

While scholars have quibbled over the definition of an MNE (and whether it ought to manufacture in at least two countries to qualify for that title), this article defines it as a.

Wilfred J. Ethier, "The Multinational Firm," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. (4), pages James R. Markusen & Keith E. Maskus, "General-Equilibrium Approaches to the Multinational Firm: A Review of Theory and Evidence," NBER Working PapersNational Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

In the main analysis, we study the allocation of risk inside the multinational firm and therefore restrict the sample to corporations with either a foreign parent company, a foreign sister company or a foreign subsidiary.

13 This yields a sample of aroundaffiliates of multinational firms, for which financial information is available. 14 While these affiliates are spread out across This article documents the recent advances in the international trade literature toward understanding the role of multinational firms in the conduct of international commerce.

Over the past 10 years, we have developed a better understanding of the incentives firms face in their choice of production location, and we know more about the incentives that induce firms to vertically integrate. Multinationals exist in equilibrium when transport and tariff costs are high, incomes are high, and firm-level scale economies are important relative to plant-level scale economies.

Less obvious, multinationals are more important in total economic activity when countries are more similar in incomes, relative factor endowments, and technologies. Direct investment is incorporated into a simple general equilibrium model of international trade. The analysis focuses on an attempt to endogenize the internalization decision.

It is argued that a reasonable approach assumes that arm's length contracts must be “simple” so. The multinational firm possesses certain kinds of advantages that set it apart from purely domestic firms. This article establishes the economic advantages of the multinational firm, describes the various strategies and organizational structures that can the firm ought to approach it as an incremental, gradual, one-step-at-a-time process.

General equilibrium theory can quickly get into the higher realms of mathemat-ical economics. Nevertheless a lot of the big ideas can be expressed in a simple 5. two-person two-good exchange economy. A useful graphical way to study such economies is the Edgeworth box, after F.

Edgeworth, a famous Cambridge (U.K.).General-equilibrium approaches to the multinational firm: a review of the theory and evidence. By James R. Markusen and Keith E. Maskus. Abstract. Beginning in the early s, theoretical analyses have incorporated the multinational firm into the microeconomic, general-equilibrium theory of international trade.

Recent advances indicate how. Yet the multinational firm was generally missing, in spite of having precisely these characteristics. The purpose of this paper is to review recent work which builds on the industrial-organization approach to trade by incorporating the MNE into formal general-equilibrium models.