Endogenous Protection, Foreign Direct Investment and Protection-building Trade

Bruce Blonigen and Yuka Ohno

Chapter 6 in Foreign Direct Investment, 2019, pp 205-233 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: We introduce the possibility of foreign direct investment (FDI) in a strategic, oligopolistic setting with endogenous protection and find that a number of unique subgame-perfect equilibria may arise, including a new result we call “protection-building trade.” This phenomenon occurs in our model when foreign firms locating production in the home country try to increase protectionist pressures in the home country (through increased exports) to provide larger barriers against other foreign competitors in future periods. We discuss how the foreign firm behavior surrounding significant U.S. protectionist actions, including the VERs on Japanese automobiles, may be consistent with protection-building trade behavior.

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Multinational Enterprises; Mergers and Acquisitions; Greenfield; Trade Policy; Taxation; Spillovers; Offshoring; Wage Inequality; Firm-Specific Assets; Antidumping; Tariff-jumping; Industrial Organization; Ownership-Location-Internalization Theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F02 F13 F6 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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