Export-Platform FDI: Cannibalization or Complementarity?

Pol Antràs, Evgenii Fadeev, Teresa C. Fort and Felix Tintelnot

AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2024, vol. 114, 130-35

Abstract: We develop a model of export-platform foreign direct investment in which final goods are produced only with labor and there are no fixed costs of exporting. We derive a simple condition that determines whether an MNE's plants are substitutes or complements. This condition is shaped by the relative size of (i) the cross-firm elasticity of demand the MNE faces for its goods and (ii) the within-firm elasticity of labor substitution across the MNE's plants. In two extensions of the model, we show that this complementarity is enhanced by firm-level (rather than plant-level) fixed costs of exporting and of sourcing inputs.

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Date: 2024
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