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Should Governments Subsidise Inward Foreign Direct Investment?

Should Governments Subsidise Inward Foreign Direct Investment? What happens when a government has incentives to subsidise inward FDI when labour markets are imperfectly competitive? Contrary to the traditional assumption in the literature, we allow the production in the multinational firm to either complement or substitute for local production. A new result is that the wage in the host country may decrease when production is moved to this country. The reason is that the union in the host country internalises product market externalities between the firms. Furthermore, it is shown that when a single country subsidises inward FDI, total world welfare might increase. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Scandinavian Journal of Economics Wiley

Should Governments Subsidise Inward Foreign Direct Investment?

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Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 2005 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
ISSN
0347-0520
eISSN
1467-9442
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9442.2005.00398.x
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Abstract

What happens when a government has incentives to subsidise inward FDI when labour markets are imperfectly competitive? Contrary to the traditional assumption in the literature, we allow the production in the multinational firm to either complement or substitute for local production. A new result is that the wage in the host country may decrease when production is moved to this country. The reason is that the union in the host country internalises product market externalities between the firms. Furthermore, it is shown that when a single country subsidises inward FDI, total world welfare might increase.

Journal

The Scandinavian Journal of EconomicsWiley

Published: Mar 1, 2005

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