01882cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF006184 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451962345 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Mejean, Isabelle. The Location of Domestic and Foreign Production Affiliates by French Multinational Firms / Isabelle Mejean, Thierry Mayer, Benjamin Nefussi. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010. 1 online resource (32 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Economists interested in location choices usually focus their attention on investments abroad. This neglects the fact that multinational enterprises continue to invest domestically while undertaking foreign expansion. This paper compares investments at home and abroad. Our firm-level dataset shows an important home bias in productive investments. Part of this "excessive" domestic investment is explained by standard determinants of location choices. The interdependence between affiliates of the same industrial group however accounts for the lion's share of the home bias. Moreover, French firms' propensity to invest abroad is positively related to their productivity and the size of their intangible assets. Mode of access: Internet Mayer, Thierry. Nefussi, Benjamin. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2010/022 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2010/022/001.2010.issue-022-en.xml IMF e-Library