Foreign direct investment and the single market

J. Peter Neary

No 200124, Working Papers from School of Economics, University College 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.

Keywords: Foreign direct investment; Market integration; Multinational corporations; Single Market; International business enterprises; Free trade; Investments, Foreign (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F12 F15 F23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-05
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