A Unified Treatment of Horizontal Direct Investment, Vertical Direct Investment, and the Pattern of Trade in Goods and Services.

This paper contributes to research endogenizing multinational firms in general-equilibrium trade models. We attempt to integrate separate contributions on horizontal multinationals which produce the same final product in multiple locations, with work on vertical multinationals, which geographically...

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Main Authors: Markusen, J, Venables, A, Konan, D, Zhang, K
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: National Bureau of Economic Research 1996