Trade costs and foreign direct investment
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Title: | Trade costs and foreign direct investment | Authors: | Neary, J. Peter | Permanent link: | http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1268 | Date: | Aug-2005 | Online since: | 2009-07-22T13:27:20Z | Abstract: | This paper reviews the theory of foreign direct investment (FDI), focusing on an apparent conict between theory and recent trends in the globalized world. The bulk of FDI is horizontal rather than vertical, but horizontal FDI is discouraged when trade costs fall. This seems to conflict with the experience of the 1990s, when trade liberalisation and technological change led to dramatic reductions in trade costs yet FDI grew much faster than trade. Two possible resolutions to this paradox are explored. First, horizontal FDI in trading blocs is encouraged by intra-bloc trade liberalisation, because foreign firms establish plants in one country as export platforms to serve the bloc as a whole. Second, cross-border mergers, which are quantitatively more important than greenfield FDI, are encouraged rather than discouraged by falling trade costs. | Type of material: | Working Paper | Publisher: | University College Dublin. School of Economics | Series/Report no.: | UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series; WP05/12 | Keywords: | Cross-border mergers and acquisitions; Export platform FDI; Foreign direct investment; International trade policy; Trade liberalisation | Subject LCSH: | Commercial policy Consolidation and merger of corporations Investments, Foreign Free trade |
Other versions: | http://www.ucd.ie/economics/research/papers/2005/WP05.12.pdf | Language: | en | Status of Item: | Not peer reviewed |
Appears in Collections: | Economics Working Papers & Policy Papers |
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