Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/73927 
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Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 51.2005
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
This paper surveys recent contributions on the Internalisation issue, based on different theories of the firm, to show how the make-or-buy decision, at an international level, has been assessed through the opening up of the “black box” - traditionally explored by the theorists of the firm – and the simultaneous endogenization of the market environment – as in the International Economics tradition. In particular, we consider three Archetypes – Grossman-Hart-Moore treatment of hold-up and contractual incompleteness, Holmstrom-Milgrom view of the firm as an incentive system, Aghion-Tirole conceptualisation of formal and real authority in organisations – and show how they have been embedded in industry and general equilibrium models of FDI to explain the boundaries of global firms.
Subjects: 
FDI
Internalisation
International Economics
Incomplete contracts
JEL: 
F1
F2
L1
L2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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