Ekholm, Karolina; Forslid, Rikard; Markusen, James R. - 2022
Export-platform foreign direct investment in which the affiliate's output is (largely) sold in third markets rather …, high-cost economies and a small low-cost economy. Pure export-platform production arises in a symmetric case, when a firm … its low-wage partner in order to serve their joint free-trade area and to export to the outside high-cost country …