Author

Contributions

  • Lipsey, Robert E., coauthor. - Contributor
  • National Bureau of Economic Research. - Contributor

Publication

2004 - National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

9,250 words, Guess

Page Count

37 pages

Identifiers

Description

"Using confidential individual firm data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis survey of U.S. firms' manufacturing operations abroad, we investigate the determinants of capital intensity in affiliate operations. Host country labor cost, the scale of host country production, and the capital intensity of the parent firm's production in the United States, are all significant influences. The parent's capital intensity is the strongest and most consistent determinant of affiliate capital intensity. Affiliates that export are more sensitive to these factors in their choice of factor proportions than affiliates that sell only in their host countries"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.

Subjects

Topics

WagesPricesMathematical modelsAmerican CorporationsManufacturing industriesPrices -- Mathematical modelsEffect of international trade on

Places

Series Statement

  • NBER working paper series -- no. 10442.
  • Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 10442.

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Other Editions

  • Factor-prices and factor substitution in U.S. firms' manufacturing affiliates abroadNational Bureau of Economic Research2004-01-01

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