We examine whether an increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) flows necessarily increases international technology … transfer (ITT). The answer to this question depends on whether FDI is the sole channel of ITT or whether other channels of ITT … such as imitation are present for the host country. A faster flow of FDI to the South increases the rates of innovation …

investment (FDI) to address the concerns of developing nations that stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection would … relative to FDI. Stronger IPR protection displaces FDI due to aggravated resource scarcity in the South. Reduced FDI transmits …

A developing country may attract foreign direct investment (FDI) for (1) technology transfer that increases local firm … profits or for (2) wage premiums that benefit workers. The two never occur together but if the country can attract FDI, it is … make FDI more attractive than exporting.Glass and Saggi construct an oligopoly model in which a multinational firm has a …

This paper agrues that the prices of intermediates may influence the pattern of foreign direct investment (FDI). In our … model, two downstream firms select whether to serve each other's markets through exports of FDI, always sourcing the … fact that two-way FDI occurs when the market sizes of the two countries are similar. Welfare analysis provides two …

We study the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) policies when source firms locate some production in two host … countries. By reducing its tax on multinational production, a host country can attract additional FDI, some of which is diverted … from other host countries. The shift in FDI causes host wages to rise while wages elsewhere fall. The host country with the …

foreign firm can undertake foreign direct investment (FDI) in the domestic market should trade policies become too stringent … higher level of protection to the domestic firm without generating FDI by the foreign firm (FDI deterring motive). Deterring … FDI is crucial since FDI lowers the total surplus relative to free trade …

government has an incentive to attract FDI due to technology transfer to local firms or the wage premium earned by employees of … the multinational firm. However, when FDI is particularly attractive to the multinational firm, the host government has an … incentive to discourage FDI …

subsidy to multinational production encourages foreign direct investment (FDI) from the favored country but crowds out FDI … tendency to conduct FDI in the host country receives the larger subsidy (or smaller tax). The source country receiving the … country to apply FDI policy equally across all firms …