Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Turrini, Alessandro - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 5 (2007) 4, pp. 796-822
We introduce incomplete contracts in a model where multinational firms from a certain country ("North") can decide to serve a foreign market ("South") through exports or through horizontal foreign direct investment (FDI). FDI relies on the supply of specialized intermediate inputs that could be...