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Location of Foreign Direct Investment in Vertically Related Markets

Milliou, Chrysovalantou - CESifo - 2013

less developed, FDI is always welfare-enhancing. …

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Foreign Direct Investment and Wage Bargaining

Naylor, Robin; Santoni, Michele - 2000

We derive the sub-game perfect Nash equilibria for the foreign direct investment (FDI) game played between two unionised firms. Among other results, we show that FDI is less likely, ceteris paribus, the greater is union bargaining power, the stronger the weight the union attaches to wages, and...

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FDI Selection : Crowding Out and Distributional Effects

Glass, Amy Jocelyn; Saggi, Kamal - 1999

Oligopolists from two source countries invest in a common host country to take advantage of low costs. A selective subsidy to multinational production encourages foreign direct investment (FDI) from the favored country but crowds out FDI from the other source. Such a subsidy also shifts rents...

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FDI Policies Under Shared Factor Markets

Glass, Amy Jocelyn; Saggi, Kamal - 2001

firms across countries. Subsidies can be effective in raising national welfare, even in the presence of shared factors …

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Exporting Versus Direct Investment Under Local Sourcing

Glass, Amy Jocelyn; Saggi, Kamal - 2000

fact that two-way FDI occurs when the market sizes of the two countries are similar. Welfare analysis provides two … interesting results: host countries may have incentives to attract FDI, and global welfare in not monotonically related to the …

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Coordinating FDI Policies Among Host Countries

Glass, Amy Jocelyn; Saggi, Kamal - 2000

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...

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Trade Cost, Technology Licensing and Foreign Direct Investment

Mukherjee, Arijit; Suetrong, Kullapat - 2006

differ in technologies. Whether lower trade cost increases welfare is ambiguous, and depends on its effects on FDI. We also … show the impacts of technology licensing on FDI and welfare. Licensing substitutes FDI, and the effects of lower trade cost … are ambiguous on the home country welfare and the host country welfare in presence of licensing. Whether, for a given …

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Quality-Improving R&D, Trade Barriers, and Foreign Direct Investment

Heinrich, Jeffrey - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 1997

This investigation pits Cournot oligopolists against each other in a model of quality and R&D choice. A firm gains a strategic advantage over its rival when it is able to sell in more countries due to the jointness of quality improvements across production locations. Trade barriers that restrict...

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Privatization and policy competition for FDI

Oscar, AMERIGHI; Giuseppe, DE FEO - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2008

is lower than the welfare-maximizing one. The drawback is that social welfare generally decreases. We also investigate … with an instrument which can be used either to reduce the negative impact on welfare of an FDI-attracting privatization or …

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Subsidy competition and the role of firm ownership

Mittermaier, Ferdinand - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper addresses the role that foreign vs. domestic ownership of companies plays for governments in asymmetric countries’ competition for a multinational’s subsidiary. I argue that equilibrium subsidies as well as a foreign investor’s location decision in policy competition between...

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