POID Research Seminar

The Ins and Outs of Multinational Firms in Four National Production Networks

06 May 2025

Isabela Manelici (LSE)

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External publications

International Trade: Issue 2

27 February 2025

David Atkin, Laura Boudreau, Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Amit Khandelwal, Isabela Manelici, Brian McCaig, Pamela Medina, Ameet Morjaria, Luigi Pascali, Heitor Pellegrina, Bob Rijkers and Meredith Startz

Over the last four decades, many developing countries initiated reforms that have lowered barriers to trade. Yet despite these reforms, developing countries still remain far less open than developed ones, both because of... Read more...

External publications

Foreign Direct Investment

12 February 2025

Vanessa Alviarez, Laura Boudreau, Evangelina Dardati, Jingting Fan, Farid Farrokhi, Ezequiel Garcia-Lembergman, Stefania Garetto, Grace Gu, Galina Hale, David Hemous, Nicola Limodio, Pierre Louis Vezina, Isabela Manelici, Ralf Martin, Nicolas Morales, Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, Nina Pavcnik, Heitor Pellegrina, Natalia Ramondo and Jose P Vasquez

Multinational enterprises are at the centre of policy debates in low- and middle-income countries. As some of the most productive and innovative firms in the world, which are at the core of global supply chains, multinat... Read more...

Blog

Development Dialogue: How can emerging economies break free from the sidelines of global trade? (podcast)

17 December 2024

Amit Khandelwal, Isabela Manelici and Arvind Subramanian

This episode of Development Dialogues addresses how lower-income countries have engaged with global trade. How have their approaches to trade differed based on their underlying institutional and economic structure? What ... Read more...

Blog

Attracting Multinationals to Boost Development? Some Evidence from Costa Rica

20 April 2024

Alonso Alfaro-Urena, Isabela Manelici and Jose P Vasquez

Costa Rica's global image is typically dominated by sights of mountains, beaches and volcanoes, with the smell of coffee in the background. It is less known (probably because it is a small country) that Costa Rica has ex... Read more...

Blog

Joining multinationals' supply chains can benefit domestic firms' performance

21 November 2023

Alonso Alfaro-Urena, Isabela Manelici and Jose P Vasquez

Developing countries compete to attract multinationals to induce development. Becoming suppliers to multinationals could improve domestic firms' technology and managerial practices, and the host country's economy could b... Read more...

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

The Gains from Foreign Multinationals in an Economy with Distortions

28 September 2023

Isabela Manelici (LSE)

We study the local and aggregate welfare effects of the expansion of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) in an economy with distortions. To that end, we propose a guiding general equilibrium (GE) framework that we c... Read more...

TBC

05 September 2023

Isabela Manelici (LSE)

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POID Research Seminar

The gains from foreign multinationals in an economy with distortions

05 September 2023

Isabela Manelici (LSE)

We study the local and aggregate welfare effects of the expansion of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) in an economy with distortions. To that end, we propose a guiding general equilibrium (GE) framework that we c... Read more...

Blog

Industrial policy and the rise of Romania's Silicon Valley (podcast)

09 July 2023

Isabela Manelici

In 2001, Romania gave an income tax break to a select group of software programmers. Isabela Manelici explains how this particular industrial policy helped stem Romania's "brain drain" problem, transformed the country's ... Read more...

International Economics Workshops

The Gains from Foreign Investment in an Economy with Distortions

29 March 2023

Isabela Manelici (LSE), Jose Vasquez (Princeton University)

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CEP discussion papers

Responsible sourcing? Theory and evidence from Costa Rica

29 March 2023

Alonso Alfaro-Urena, Benjamin Faber, Cecile Gaubert, Isabela Manelici and Jose P Vasquez

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) increasingly impose "Responsible Sourcing" (RS) standards on their suppliers worldwide, including requirements on worker compensation, benefits and working conditions. Are these policies ... Read more...

POID Research Seminar

Does the local integration of foreign firms matter? Theory and cross-country evidence

06 February 2023

Isabela Manelici (LSE)

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Blog

Responsible sourcing: Theory and evidence from Costa Rica

20 December 2022

Alonso Alfaro-Urena, Benjamin Faber, Cecile Gaubert, Isabela Manelici and Jose P Vasquez

There is growing pressure on multinational enterprises to implement 'responsible sourcing' requirements for their suppliers in low- and middle-income countries. These include minimum standards on working conditions, such... Read more...

IFS/STICERD/UCL Development Work in Progress Seminar

Does the Local Integration of Superstar Firms Matter? Theory and Cross-Country Evidence

01 December 2022

Isabela Manelici (LSE)

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CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars

Responsible Sourcing? Theory and Evidence from Costa Rica

21 November 2022

Isabela Manelici (LSE)

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) increasingly impose “Responsible Sourcing” (RS) standards on their suppliers worldwide, including requirements on worker compensation, benefits and working conditions. Are these policies ... Read more...

POID Working Papers

Responsible sourcing? Theory and evidence from Costa Rica

16 November 2022

Alonso Alfaro-Urena, Benjamin Faber, Cecile Gaubert, Isabela Manelici and Jose P Vasquez

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) increasingly impose 'Responsible Sourcing' (RS) standards on their suppliers worldwide, including requirements on worker compensation, benefits and working conditions. Are these policies ... Read more...

Blog

Responsible sourcing? Theory and evidence from Costa Rica

23 September 2022

Alonso Alfaro-Urena, Benjamin Faber, Cecile Gaubert, Isabela Manelici and Jose P Vasquez

The authors investigate whether responsible sourcing policies implemented by multinational enterprises for their suppliers have impacts on the ground and, if they do, what these mean for firms and workers in the host cou... Read more...

CEP/LSE International Economics Seminars

The Effects of Joining Multinational Supply Chains: New Evidence from Firm-to-Firm Linkages

27 November 2019

Isabela Manelici (LSE)

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