Measuring Multinational Enterprise Activity With The Knowledge-Capital Model
The Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) allows a country to invest and control business in another country. FDI has two types of data flow: horizontal and vertical (B. Blonigen et al., 2007). The horizontal motivation is the need to place the product nearer to the customer to avoid any trade costs. In contrast, vertical motivation is the need to have unskilled labour to produce large amounts of products at a lower

