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100	1		_aAntràs, Pol.
245	1	0	_aMultinational Firms and the Structure of International Trade / _cPol Antràs, Stephen R.Yeaple.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. _bNational Bureau of Economic Research _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource: _billustrations (black and white);
490	1		_aNBER working paper series _vno. w18775
500			_aFebruary 2013.
520	3		_aThis article reviews the state of the international trade literature on multinational firms. This literature addresses three main questions. First, why do some firms operate in more than one country while others do not? Second, what determines in which countries production facilities are located? Finally, why do firms own foreign facilities rather than simply contract with local producers or distributors? We organize our exposition of the trade literature on multinational firms around the workhorse monopolistic competition model with constant-elasticity-of-substitution (CES) preferences. On the theoretical side, we review alternative ways to introduce multinational activity into this unifying framework, illustrating some key mechanisms emphasized in the literature. On the empirical side, we discuss the key studies and provide updated empirical results and further robustness tests using new sources of data.
530			_aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
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538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588	0		_aPrint version record
690		7	_aD2 - Production and Organizations _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aD21 - Firm Behavior: Theory _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aD22 - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aD23 - Organizational Behavior • Transaction Costs • Property Rights _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aF1 - Trade _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aF12 - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies • Fragmentation _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aF2 - International Factor Movements and International Business _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aF23 - Multinational Firms • International Business _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aF61 - Microeconomic Impacts _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aL2 - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
700	1		_aR.Yeaple, Stephen.
710	2		_aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830		0	_aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) _vno. w18775.
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w18775
856			_yAcceso en línea al DOI _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w18775
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