including ©notice, is given to the source. Export-Platform Foreign Direct Investment (2003)
Karolina Ekholm, Rikard Forslid, James R. Markusen, Karolina Ekholm, Rikard Forslid, James R. Markusen, ...
Export-platform foreign direct investment in which the affiliate’s output is (largely) sold in third markets rather than in the parent or host markets has received empirical attention recently, but...
Trade theory consists of a portfolio of models. What elements might be useful in modeling the offshoring of white-collar services, or do these issues call for an entirely fresh approach? I try to...
Trade and direct investment in producer services and the domestic market for expertise
James Markusen, Thomas Rutherford, David Tarr
Foreign producer services can provide substantial benefits for domestic firms. We build on earlier monopolistic-competition models of intermediate producer services in this paper. Results show that:...
James Markusen, Anthony J Venables
A number of recent papers reach different conclusions concerning the effects of trade and industrial policy on imperfectly competitive industries; the implications for policy are therefore sensitive...
Foreign direct investment in services and the domestic market for expertise
Markusen, James, Rutherford, Thomas F., Tarr, David
A growing body of evidence suggests that the close availability of diverse business services is important for economic growth. Producer services such as managerial and engineering consulting can...
Learning on the Cheap and Quick: Gains from trade through imported expertise
James Markusen, Thomas F. Rutherford
Gains from knowledge transmission arising from the presence of foreign firms has received a good deal of empirical attention, but micro-foundations for this mechanism are weak . Here we focus on...
Discrete plant-location decisions in an applied general-equilibrium model of trade liberalization
James Markusen, Thomas Rutherford
F12, F23,
Export-Platform Foreign Direct Investment
Karolina Ekholm, Rikard Forslid, James Markusen
Export-platform foreign direct investment in which the affiliate's output is (largely) sold in third markets rather than in the parent or host markets has received empirical attention recently, but...
James Markusen, Bridget Strand
offshoring, business services, small open economies, F0, F2, F23,