An interesting empirical phenomenon is export-platform foreign-direct investment, particularly affiliate production for … its own market, and uses a plant in a small, low-cost country to serve the other highincome country. Third-country export … parent and exports to third countries, consistent with parameterizations that generate "global export-platform" production …

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 …