Export-platform foreign direct investment in which the affiliate's output is (largely) sold in third markets rather than in the parent or host markets has received empirical attention recently, but little theoretical analysis. This paper is an attempt to make some sense of this phenomenon. We...

A poorly understood empirical phenomenon is export-platform affiliate production (EP), particularly for sale in third countries rather than in the parent or host countries. We develop a three-region model, with two identical large, high-cost countries (collectively called North) and a small,...

This paper analyses the effect of allowing for a more general production structure in the core-periphery (CP) model. Two special cases of fully horizontally- and vertically-integrated firms are treated. The case of horizontally-integrated firms is a counter-example to the strong agglomeration...

Export-platform foreign direct investment in which the affiliate’s output is (largely) sold in third markets rather than in the parent or host markets has received empirical attention recently, but little theoretical analysis. This Paper is an attempt to make some sense of this phenomenon. We...