Japanese firms expanded their outward foreign direct investment (FDI) rapidly in the emerging economies in Asia in the post-1990 period. The Japanese public feared that companies would increasingly rely on cheaper foreign workers and that large numbers of home country workers would find their...

In this paper, we consider models that describe foreign firms' and host countries' decisions on foreign direct investment (FDI) when host country product markets are characterized by certain types of market structures. We show that, under certain conditions, the host country and foreign parent...