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| Author: | Brouthers, L. E. Werner, Steve Wilkinson, T. J. |
| Title: | The aggregate impact of firms' FDI strategies on the trade balances of host countries. |
| Journal: | Journal of International Business Studies
1996 : VOL. 27:2, p. 359-390 |
| Index terms: | FOREIGN INVESTMENT INTERNATIONAL TRADE VISIBLE BALANCE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPED ECONOMIES |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The authors suggest that the dominant motives for firms investigating in advanced industrial nations or developing countries (AINs or DCs) tend to be different. These dissimilar principal motives manifest themselves in aggregate impacts on national trade balances. Using market imperfections theory they suggest that firms generally tend to use FDI in AINs for market acces, increasing host- country import levels. Firms tend to use FDI in DCs in order to gain resource advanteges that can be exploited in export markets leading to increased exports and hence, trade surpluses. The findings suggest that the relationship between FDI inflow and trade balance is moderated by whether a country is an advanced industrial nation or a developing country. |
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