Received wisdom indicates that, owing to a liability of foreignness, foreign firms exit with
greater likelihood than do comparable domestic firms, and that the difference attenuates as …

The'boom'in foreign direct investment (FDI) since the mid-1980s, continues to be paramount
in policy interest. This book reviews the literature on the nature of FDI and reports the recent …

Agents face a coordination problem akin to the adoption of a network technology. A principal
announces investment subsidies that, at minimal cost, attain a given likelihood of successful …

This paper tests whether earlier concerns over the negative effects of branch plant syndrome
(ie lack of stable jobs, lack of research and development (R&D) activities, limited backward …

Farmer entrepreneurship can effectively promote rural economic progresses, reducing the
urban-rural income gap. Most of the existing literature has attached great importance to the …

Research Summary This study examines the exit behavior of emerging market MNC s in the
context of the parent company (PC)‐foreign affiliate (FA) relationship. Specifically, we …

The aim of this paper is to explore the effects of spillovers driven by competition and forward
and backward linkages between foreign firms and Italian firms. We adopt the firm dynamics …

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether and how multinational status and foreign
ownership affect the survival of Italian manufacturing and service firms. To this end, we …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the determinants of survival for Italian firms according
to their ownership status. To this end, we analyze firm survival distinguishing the Italian firms …

Do regional differences matter for firm survival across native and immigrant entrepreneurs?
We investigate this question applying a unique data derived from the Chamber of Industrial …