Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/92789 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Discussion Paper No. 694
Publisher: 
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka
Abstract: 
We examine a foreign firm's choice between exporting and foreign direct investment (FDI) under country-specific cost uncertainty. Unlike exporting, FDI exposes foreign and home firms to common shocks. This results in a correlation of strategies, harming the firms. However, the exposure to common shocks also benefits the firms by enabling them to learn each other's cost realization. The net effect is negative, implying that country-specific cost uncertainty forms a barrier to FDI. The foreign firm, then, chooses exporting unless FDI gives it a substantial cost advantage. Therefore, when FDI actually occurs, the home firm is hurt but consumers always benefit.
Subjects: 
information
FDI
access mode selection
cost uncertainty
globalization
JEL: 
D83
F12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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