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Multinationals and plant exit : evidence from Chile

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dc.creator Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto
dc.creator Görg, Holger
dc.date 2005
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T06:23:54Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T06:23:54Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier IZA discussion papers Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit, Bonn 1611
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/3626
dc.identifier ppn:488197260
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/3626
dc.description This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and plant exit in Chile. We investigate three main questions: are affiliates of foreign multinationals more likely to exit than domestic firms? Does the exit probability of multinationals depend on its export orientation?, and Does the presence of multinationals affect the survival of other firms in the economy? Our results show that foreign plants are more likely to exit the economy, controlling for other firm and industry characteristics, only during the late 1990s, a period when the Chilean economy experience a massive slowdown. Our data also suggest that only domestic market oriented multinationals responded to this negative shock by being more footloose; this is not true for multinational exporters. We also find that the presence of multinationals has a positive effect on plant survival in the early 1990s. This positive effect, however, is fully captured by productivity, once controlling for TFP in our exit regressions we do not find any further impact of multinational presence on a plant's probability of exit.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit, Bonn
dc.relation Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 1611
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.title Multinationals and plant exit : evidence from Chile
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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