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CEO Turnover and Foreign Market Participation

Blonigen, Bruce A.; Wooster, Rossitza B. (Rossitza Bouneva), 1971- (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2003-03)

Anecdotal evidence suggests that new CEOs with foreign backgrounds direct their firms to become more international in their operations. We examine this hypothesis formally using data on U.S. S&P-500 manufacturing firms ...
Fragmentation of Headquarter Services and FDI

Davies, Ronald B. (University of Oregon, Dept of Economics, 2003-09)

I develop a simple model in which production of skill-intensive headquarter services are fragmented across borders in order to take advantage of complementarities between types of skilled labor. This setting indicates that ...
Industrial groupings and foreign direct investment

Blonigen, Bruce A.; Ellis, Christopher J.; Fausten, Dietrich (University of Oregon, Dept of Economics, 2003-03)

We explore worldwide foreign direct investment location decisions by Japanese manufacturing firms from 1985 through 1991. Our conditional logit estimates provide evidence that firms’ location decisions are affected by ...