Licensing versus direct investment: implications for economic growth Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We develop a symmetric two country model of foreign direct investment (FDI) that captures the internalization decision and its implications for both the rate and magnitude of innovations. When mode choice (licensing versus FDI) is fixed, a subsidy to multinational production increases the rate but decreases the size of innovations. When mode can switch, the rate and size of innovations both increase, provided the subsidy is not too large. Although innovation size decreases for industries where firms already were choosing FDI, innovation size increases for industries where firms switch from licensing to FDI because multinationals choose larger innovations than licensors. 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

  • Glass, A. J., & Saggi, K.

citation count

  • 39

complete list of authors

  • Glass, AJ||Saggi, K

publication date

  • January 2002