Antidumping (AD) petitions are often withdrawn in favor of VERs and price undertakings. We compare foreign firms’ incentive to engage in foreign direct investment (FDI) under a VER and a price undertaking, with special emphasis on foreign rivalry. We show that a VER is less likely to induce FDI than a price undertaking or AD. Thus, the importing country can increase the level of protection by r...

foreign direct investment has been a key topic in development literature for a long time. many economists have written articles on the on recipient’s macroeconomic variables, transfer of capital and technology. the improvement of managerial and human resources, promotion of foreign trade with its emphasized role on economic growth of recipients. other economists have an opposite view. they have...

This study provides empirical findings on determinants of mobile network operators’ (MNO) choices of cross-border entry modes. Arguments mainly from transaction cost theory are used to derive hypotheses and research questions on factors explaining entry mode selection decisions between (1) minority versus majority equity share purchases, and (2) engagements in established operations versus gree...

This paper examines the effects of exchange rates on R&D activities and international strategy choices of the oligopolies. We develop a three-stage game-theoretic model in which two firms located in two different countries (a developing and a developed one) choose the mode of foreign expansion in the first stage. They decide how much to spend on R&D, and how much to sell in domestic and foreign...

Rajah Rasiah This paper seeks to examine the importance of ownership in R&D intensities and export ownership in the automotive parts firms in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Taiwan. Consistent with the portfolio and ownership, location and internationalization theories of foreign direct investment about asset specific advantages, the pooled regressions show higher R&D intensities in...

Although it may seem natural to argue that foreign direct investment (FDI) can convey great advantages to host countries, this paper shows that the benefits of FDI vary greatly across sectors by examining the effect of foreign direct investment on growth in the primary, manufacturing, and services sectors. An empirical analysis using cross-country data for the period 1981-1999 suggests that tot...

This paper deals with the interplay between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the industrial and innovation policies of host developing economies. It aims to redefine the nexus between these different, though yet strongly interconnected policy areas, by bringing the affiliates of multinational corporations already established in a host economy to the first level of analysis. It argues that ho...

We study two governments, each considering whether or not to compete to attract a foreign monopoly Þrm into its own domestic market. The competition, should it occur, would involve offering incentives to the Þrm. The incentives, which are costly for the governments to provide, lower the Þrm’s marginal cost of production. Faced with the offers from each country, the Þrm must choose one of four o...

A country of five million people in 710 square kilometers, Singapore has built itself into an integral part of global markets with living standards that are among the highest in the world. The purpose of this article is to apply a capabilities-based approach to understand how a small, resource-scarce country dependent on global markets has done so well. The core of Singapore’s success has been ...

This paper presents evidence on whether multinationals are flocking to developing country "pollution havens". We begin with data from four developing countries, examining the pattern of foreign investment in Mexico, Venezuela, Morocco and Cote d'Ivoire. We find almost no evidence that foreign investors are concentrated in "dirty" sectors. We then examine the behavior of multinationals located i...