Organization of Multinational Activities and Ownership Structure

Christian Mugele and Monika Schnitzer ()

Discussion Papers in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics

Abstract: We develop a model in which multinational investors decide about the modes of organization, the locations of production, and the markets to be served. Foreign investments are driven by market-seeking and cost-reducing motives. We further assume that investors face costs of control that vary among sectors and increase in distance. The results show that (i) production intensive sectors are more likely to operate a foreign business independent of the investment motive, (ii) that distance may have a non-monotonous effect on the likelihood of horizontal investments, and (iii) that globalization, if understood as reducing distance, leads to more integration.

Keywords: Multinationals; Joint ventures; Technology spillovers; Distance; Horizontal and vertical investments; Ownership structure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D23 F23 L22 L23 L24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-02
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