Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/72365 
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Year of Publication: 
2002
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Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP01/24
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, Department of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
This paper extends the theory of multinational corporations, identifying three distinct influences of internal trade liberalisation by a group of countries on the level and pattern of inward foreign direct investment (FDI). First, the tariff-jumping motive encourages plant consolidation. Second, the export platform motive favours FDI with only a single union plant relative to exporting, and may induce a firm which has never exported to invest. Finally, reduced internal tariffs increase competition from domestic firms, which dilutes the other motives and may induce a Fortress Europe outcome of multinationals leaving union markets even though external tariffs are unchanged.
Subjects: 
Foreign direct investment
market integration
multinational corporations
Single Market
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Working Paper

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