Editorial composite of cranes at Yokohama port beside a worker operating factory machinery, with opposing arrows representing goods and income flows.

A weaker currency is often expected to make a country’s exports more competitive and encourage production at home. New research on Japanese multinational companies shows why the result can be different when businesses already manufacture and sell through subsidiaries abroad.

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