This paper examines the issue of the effect of international trade on quality choice by firms in a factor-endowment framework. Factor price equalization implies product quality equalization. In the North-South context it means that the South catches up with the North in product quality due to...

This paper first of all develops a Cournot oligopolistic model with heterogeneous firms to examine each firm's choice between export-oriented foreign direct investments (FDI) and FDI to serve the host-country market. It is shown that there exist a critical level of efficiency such that all firms...

This paper first of all develops a theoretical model to examine a number of heterogeneous firms' choice between making export-oriented foreign direct investments (FDI) in a host country and making FDI in another country to serve the market there. It is shown that all firms below a critical level...