Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/174898 
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Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Discussion Papers No. 2018-19
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
This study shows that when there is multinational competition for foreign acquisition, the strategic use of a consumer welfare argument in regulating foreign market entry leads to a preemptive foreign acquisition. Even under fierce competition, foreign acquisition will emerge as part of a non-cooperative equilibrium (although multinationals would have gained more had they been able to credibly commit to a cooperative equilibrium of independent foreign sales, either via greenfield investment or trade under complete liberalization) which increases local welfare by more than both the case without foreign market entry and the case with foreign market entry via independent foreign sales.
Subjects: 
cross-border firm acquisitions
foreign market entry regulations
greenfield investment
trade
consumer welfare
JEL: 
F23
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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