Arbeitspapier

Home market effect versus multinationals

We develop a model with two asymmetric countries. Firms choose the number and the location of plants that they operate. The production of each firm increases when trade costs fall. The fall also induces multinationals to repatriate their production into a single country, which is likely to be the large country because of the home market effect. The net effect on total output is favorable in the large country and ambiguous in the small country. We extend the model to endogenize country sizes and we show that in an equilibrium with multinationals only, a rent can be taxed by governments.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 2829

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
Standortwahl
Multinationales Unternehmen
Globalisierung
Wirtschaftsgeographie
Außenwirtschaftstheorie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Toulemonde, Eric
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2007

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2008032859
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Toulemonde, Eric
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2007

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