Replication data for: Intra-industry Foreign Direct Investment

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Laura Alfaro; Andrew Charlton

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Project Citation:

Alfaro, Laura, and Charlton, Andrew. Replication data for: Intra-industry Foreign Direct Investment. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2009. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113345V1

Project Description

Summary: We use a new firm-level dataset that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries. Using a combination of four-digit-level information and input-output tables, we find the share of vertical FDI (subsidiaries that provide inputs to their parent firms) to be larger than commonly thought, even within developed countries. Most subsidiaries are not readily explained by the comparative advantage considerations whereby multinationals locate activities abroad to take advantage of factor cost differences. Instead, multinationals tend to own the stages of production proximate to their final production, giving rise to a class of high-skill, intra-industry vertical FDI. (JEL G11, J32)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Multinational Activity; Foreign Direct Investment; Stages of Production; Horizontal Vertical FDI

JEL Classification:
      F23 Multinational Firms; International Business
      L22 Firm Organization and Market Structure
      L23 Organization of Production
      R32 Other Spatial Production and Pricing Analysis

Geographic Coverage: Global coverage

Time Period(s): 2005 – 2005 (yearly coverage, paper uses 2005)

Universe: Census, registries, etc.

Data Type(s): administrative records data

Methodology

Data Source: Dun & Bradstreet WorldBase

Unit(s) of Observation: plant, firm,

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