Strategic public housing and foreign direct investment

Arbeitspapier

We suggest that public housing matters for FDI. We assume that FDI creates gains for some residents and losses for others. Losers from FDI will oppose FDI. To win support for FDI, local government may want to pay compensation in cash. In the paper’s model, however, cash payments are not successful. But public housing is. – Ultimately we argue that (1) public housing makes FDI more palatable where (2) cash transfers fail, so that (3) local government may choose to invest into public housing to overcome opposition against FDI.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series ; No. WP02/23

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Multinational Firms; International Business ; Publicly Provided Private Goods ; Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
• Subject: Public Housing ; Foreign Direct Investment ; Sozialer Wohnungsbau ; Soziale Wohnungspolitik ; Direktinvestition ; Öffentlicher Transfer ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Dascher, Kristof
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University College Dublin, Department of Economics
• (where): Dublin
• (when): 2002

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/72449
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET