Transport Infrastructure Investments and Competition for FDI

Kate Hynes, Jie Ma and Cheng Yuan

No 201718, Working Papers from School of Economics, University College Dublin

Abstract: This paper studies how transport infrastructure investments affect a bidding war for a firm between two asymmetric countries within a region in a context of imperfect competition, where transport infrastructure investments play the role of a global public good, leading to a reduction in the unit trade cost between the two countries. A number of interesting results are derived from the model. In particular, transport infrastructure investments can intensify fiscal competition between the two countries. Surprisingly, this conventional wisdom seems to be confirmed by this paper for the first time. Welfare implications of the model are also examined.

Keywords: Transport infrastructure investments; Fiscal competition; FDI; Imperfectly competitive market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F21 F23 H40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2017-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-int and nep-tre
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/9092 First version, 2017 (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Transport infrastructure investments and competition for FDI (2019)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ucn:wpaper:201718

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from School of Economics, University College Dublin Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Nicolas Clifton ().