Foreign Direct Investment as a Signal

Onur Koska, Ngo Long and Frank Staehler
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Frank Stähler

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Abstract: This paper models competition among multinational firms in an environment of firm heterogeneity, incomplete cost information and strategic interaction. In this context, FDI serves as a signal of productivity: when firms sort into exporters and multinationals, they also show whether they have low or high productivity. We show that the signaling effect of FDI increases the FDI incentive as firms would like to avoid sending a low productivity signal.

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Trade; Firm Heterogeneity; Incomplete Information; Signaling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-10-27
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Journal Article: Foreign direct investment as a signal (2018)
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