Fixed Costs, Foreign Direct Investment, and Gravity with Zeros
Fixed costs play a crucial role in current models of foreign direct investment (FDI), yet they are almost entirely ignored in empirical treatments of FDI. We fill this gap by using a 1989–2001 panel of FDI flows into Iceland to examine the determinants of fixed costs for multinational firms and how...
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| Volume: | 18 |
|---|---|
| Main Author: |
Davies, Ronald B
Kristjánsdóttir, Helga |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
| Zielgruppe: |
Academic |
| Place of publication: |
Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.02.2010 WILEY-BLACKWELL Wiley Blackwell Wiley Subscription Services, Inc |
| published in: | Review of international economics Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 47 - 62 |
| ORCID: |
0000-0002-8857-8063 |
| Data of publication: | February 2010 |
| ISSN: |
0965-7576 1467-9396 |
| EISSN: |
1467-9396 |
| Discipline: | Business Economics |
| Bibliography: |
We thank the referee for valuable comments. |
| Series: |
Review of International Economics |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | available in Bonn? |
| Database: | Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Knowledge Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2010 Web of Science RePEc RePEc IDEAS CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS |