Comparative Advantage and the Location of Inward Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from the UK and South Korea

World Economy ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith E. Maskus ◽  
Allan Webster
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Inward Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
The Uk

The Growth of Foreign Direct Investment in Europe

1997 ◽  
Vol 160 ◽  
pp. 63-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray Barrell ◽  
Nigel Pain
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Inward Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
The Uk

Increasing attention has been paid in Europe in recent years to the question of why firms invest abroad. This reflects both the rapid growth in foreign direct investment within Europe, along with recent improvements in the quality and availability of data. At the heart of the debate is a focus on the costs and benefits of foreign investment, such as whether inward investment affects employment and economic growth and whether outward investment is simply ‘job exporting‘, with firms moving to low-cost, labour-abundant locations. An understanding of the motives behind firms’ decisions to invest overseas is of particular importance for the UK, whose aggregate stocks of outward and inward foreign direct investment reached 30 per cent and 21 per cent of GDP respectively at the end of 1995.

scholarly journals Brexit Damage Limitation: Tariff-Jumping FDI and the Irish Agri-Food Sector

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-74
Author(s):  
Frank Barry ◽  
Xiaolu Sun ◽  
Benn F. Hogan
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Food Sector ◽  
Trade Data ◽  
Damage Limitation ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

AbstractA ‘hard Brexit’ would be particularly damaging to the Irish beef and dairy sectors. The UK also exports substantial amounts of these products to the EU however and the vacuum that restrictions on UK access to the EU market would create affords opportunities for Irish-based producers. The aim of the paper is to assess how these opportunities might be best exploited. The results of a revealed comparative advantage (RCA) analysis conducted using international trade data do not prove encouraging. RCA analysis however implicitly treats the stock of foreign direct investment (FDI) as given. Newspaper reports are drawn upon to detail the extent of precautionary ‘tariff jumping’ FDI already undertaken by Irish agri-businesses. These flows thus far have been almost entirely one-way. Flows in international financial services have been in the opposite direction. These asymmetries suggest that targeted efforts by Ireland's industrial development agencies may be able to offset some of the damaging consequences of a hard Brexit.

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