Trade in services, trade in goods, gravity model, economic freedom,

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Multinational enterprises, panel data, firm heterogeneity, total factor productivity, firm survival,

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analyzes the microdata of Japanese manufacturing firms and claims that corporate structure and interfirm relationship are jointly chosen with the location of activities. Source: Authors' calculation, based on UN PC-TAS (UN COMTRADE for exports of Hong Kong and exports and imports for Russia and Slovakia. 11. See table 6A.2 for industry classification. 12. See Kimura and Ando (2003) for a comparative study between Latin America and East Asia, based on the microdata of Japanese corporate firms.