Fig 1.
Transition of the number of licensed construction firms.
Table 1.
Distribution of contractors by capital, March 2011.
Table 2.
Worldwide ranking in sales among construction firms.
Table 3.
List of general contractors.
Table 4.
List of countries.
Table 5.
Summary statistics.
Table 6.
Correlation matrix of main variables.
Table 7.
Numbers of countries and contracts, amount of contracts and financial status (average over the period 1998-2010).
Table 8.
Locational choice of international operations.
Table 9.
Locational choice of international operations: Zero-inflated Poisson and negative binomial regressions.
Table 10.
Locational choice of international operations: Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood (PPML) estimation where the dependent variable is the total real value of the orders for the overseas projects.