POTENTIAL FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT MARKET IN GABON

Foreign Direct Investment and the Single Market*

Market Entry and Foreign Direct Investment

This paper discusses the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on market entry and welfare. It assumes that firms may enter markets in the first period as national firms only. In the second period, however, FDI is possible. The paper demonstrates that FDI reduces market entry because equilibrium profits in the second period decline with a decrease in the fixed cost of FDI. Therefore, compar...

Income Distribution, Market Size, and Foreign Direct Investment∗

This paper studies the role of the host country’s market size in the determination of foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade flows in a general equilibrium model. We propose a simple model with non-homothetic consumer behavior where the distribution of income in the host country implies market segmentation. Facing a proximity-concentration trade-off, in equilibrium ex-ante identical firms ch...

Foreign Direct Investment in India

Foreign direct investment plays an important role in the economic development of the country. It helps in transferring of financial resources, technology and innovative and improved management techniques along with raising productivity. An Indian company may receive Foreign Direct Investment either through automatic route or government route. The paper tries to study the need of FDI in India, t...

Foreign Direct Investment in Mexico

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