Foreign Direct Investment and Host-Country Trading Blocs

Jeff Heinrich · Denise Eby Konan

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We consider the impact of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) on horizontal foreign direct investment (FDI) coming from parent countries outside the PTA.While easier access to a larger market due to a PTA may justify new FDI, preexisting investments may be rationalized as firms concentrate production in a single plant in the PTA.Which effect dominates depends on the extent of pre-PTA tariff jumping.The number of firms in the industry and non-PTA welfare may rise or fall.PTA welfare increases regardless of PTA-induced changes in inward FDI.

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