Interdependence in Multinational Production Networks

Maggie Chen

Working Papers from The George Washington University, Institute for International Economic Policy

Abstract: Most multinational firms today operate multilateral production networks. Most existing emperical analyses, however, have focused on the choice between producing at home and investing overseaas and assumed firms' decisions to invest in foreign countries to be interdepedent of their locations in third countries. This paper uses detailed French multinational subsidiary level data to examine the effect of existing production networks on multinationals' entry decisions. The paper finds strong evidence of horizontal and vertical inderdependence across multinationals' foreign production locations, but little evidence of interdependence between home-country production and foreign investment when third-country effects are taken into account. This result constitutes a sharp contrast to the conventional emphasis, and highlights the importance of investigating the causes and effects of foreign direct investment in the context of multinational production networks.

Keywords: multinational firm; production network; interdependence; entry decision; trade costs; inpout-output linkage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D21 F23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2010-09
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Published in University Library of Munich, Germany 2009

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Journal Article: Interdependence in multinational production networks (2011)
Journal Article: Interdependence in multinational production networks (2011)
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