This paper presents a simple model of the interaction between two firms, based in different countries, each of which faces the export v MNE choice concerning the serving of each other’s home market. The basic game structure is similar to that elsewhere in the literature (Horstmann & Markusen...

This Paper estimates econometric models explaining the foreign production of leading UK firms in 1986 and 1993. The principle questions addressed are: (i) what effect does one UK firm’s foreign operations have on the foreign operations of another UK firm?; (ii) what effects do the UK...