Firm heterogeneity, exporting and foreign direct investment

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Greenaway, David; Kneller, Richard
• 署名单位: University of Nottingham
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02018.x
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: F134-F161
• 关键词: research-and-development; trade liberalization; market participation; productivity growth; performance; FDI; BEHAVIOR; spillovers; INNOVATION; EXIT

摘要

A rapidly expanding literature on firm heterogeneity and firm level globalisation strategies has developed over the last decade. There are new insights on why some firms export and others do not, why some firms fail to survive in export markets and some choose to produce overseas rather than export. This article provides a synthesis and evaluation of this literature. It reviews both new theories of firms in an open economy context and the extensive microeconometric evidence base, which has now developed. It highlights the implications of this evidence base for policy and includes an assessment of how the research agenda may evolve.