Mode of International Investment and Endogenous Risk of Expropriation

Ramin Dadasov and Oliver Lorz

No 201035, MAGKS Papers on Economics from Philipps-Universität Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Department of Economics (Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung)

Abstract: In this paper, we develop a politico-economic model to analyze the relationship between the mode of international investment and institutional quality in a non-democratic capital importing country. Foreign investors from a capital-rich North can either purchase productive assets in a capital-poor South and transfer their capital within integrated multinational rms or they can form joint ventures with local asset owners. The South is ruled by an autocratic elite that may use its political power to expropriate productive assets. In a joint venture, the domestic asset owner bears the risk of expropriation, whereas in an integrated rm, this risk affects the foreign investor. This effect lowers the incentives for specific investments in an integrated firm and distorts the decision between joint ventures and integrated production. By setting the institutional framework in the host country, the elite in uences the risk of expropriation. We determine the equilibrium risk of expropriation in this framework and the resulting pattern of international production. We also analyze as to how globalization, which is re ected in a decline in investment costs, in fluences institutional quality.

Keywords: Foreign direct investment; joint venture; property rights; expropriation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F21 L22 P48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2010
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