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Like it or not? How the economic and institutional environment shapes individual attitudes towards multinational enterprises

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  • Philipp Harms
  • Jakob Schwab

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This paper analyses the determinants of people's attitudes towards foreign direct investment (FDI) using a survey‐based data set that covers a wide range of rich and poor countries. We find that both individual socioeconomic characteristics and macroeconomic and institutional factors shape agents’ attitudes towards multinational firms. Moreover, we find that the influence of an individual's characteristics—such as education and the status as an entrepreneur—on her/his perspective on multinationals depends on the respective country's per‐capita income. Our results confirm the conjecture that relative individual attitudes towards multinationals reflect distributional interests as suggested by economic theory.

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  • Philipp Harms & Jakob Schwab, 2019. "Like it or not? How the economic and institutional environment shapes individual attitudes towards multinational enterprises," The World Economy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 42(3), pages 636-679, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:worlde:v:42:y:2019:i:3:p:636-679
    DOI: 10.1111/twec.12683
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    1. Egger, Hartmut & Fischer, Christian, 2020. "Increasing resistance to globalization: The role of trade in tasks," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 126(C).
    2. Philipp Harms & Jakob Schwab, 2019. "Depression of the deprived or eroding enthusiasm of the elites: What has shifted the support for globalization?," Working Papers 1912, Gutenberg School of Management and Economics, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
    3. Franco, Chiara & Marin, Giovanni & Pietrovito, Filomena, 2022. "Exposure to FDI and attitudes towards multinational enterprises: do M&A impact?," Economics & Statistics Discussion Papers esdp22085, University of Molise, Department of Economics.
    4. Gabriel Felbermayr & Benjamin Jung & Wilhelm Kohler & Philipp Harms & Jakob Schwab, 2017. "Ricardo – gestern und heute," ifo Schnelldienst, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 70(09), pages 03-18, May.
    5. Laura Arnemann & Kai A Konrad & Niklas Potrafke, 2021. "Collective memories on the 2010 European debt crisis," European Union Politics, , vol. 22(4), pages 762-784, December.
    6. Chiara Franco & Giovanni Marin & Filomena Pietrovito, 2023. "Exposure to FDI and attitudes towards multinational enterprises: Do M&A matter?," The World Economy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 46(6), pages 1648-1669, June.
    7. Ayumu TANAKA & Banri ITO & Naoto JINJI, 2022. "Individual Preferences Toward Inward Foreign Direct Investment: A Conjoint Survey Experiment," Discussion papers 22005, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).
    8. Tanaka, Ayumu & Ito, Banri & Jinji, Naoto, 2023. "Individual preferences toward inward foreign direct investment: A survey experiment," Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
    9. Philipp Harms & Nils D. Steiner, 2023. "Attitudes towards Globalization: A Survey," Working Papers 2305, Gutenberg School of Management and Economics, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
    10. Harms, Philipp & Schwab, Jakob, 2020. "Depression of the deprived or eroding enthusiasm of the elites: What has shifted the support for international trade?," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 64(C).

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    JEL classification:

    • F21 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements
    • F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business
    • F61 - International Economics - - Economic Impacts of Globalization - - - Microeconomic Impacts

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