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Transaction And Transfer Efficiencies And The Size Of Fdi

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  • DEXIN YANG

    (Centre for International Investment Studies, Shandong University of Finance, Jinan, Shandong, 250014, China)

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This paper develops a general equilibrium model with endogenous international economic structure and international division of labor to identify the forces that determine the size of foreign direct investment (FDI). It shows that the volume of FDI is affected positively by host country's transaction efficiency for final goods and ordinary labor, source country's transaction efficiency for managerial and technical professionals, as well as international transfer efficiency for cross-border movement of managerial and technical professionals; and negatively by difficulty in the production of intermediate goods and international transaction efficiency for traded goods. While consistent with some established hypotheses, the findings have cleared up some misunderstandings in the literature on FDI. It has methodological and theoretical contributions and its findings have rich policy implications in the era of globalization.

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  • Dexin Yang, 2007. "Transaction And Transfer Efficiencies And The Size Of Fdi," Division of Labor & Transaction Costs (DLTC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 2(02), pages 147-173.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:dltcxx:v:02:y:2007:i:02:n:s0219871107000336
    DOI: 10.1142/S0219871107000336
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    Keywords

    FDI; transaction efficiency; organization of economic activity;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • C62 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Existence and Stability Conditions of Equilibrium
    • D - Microeconomics
    • E1 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models
    • F - International Economics
    • F11 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Neoclassical Models of Trade
    • F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
    • F16 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Labor Market Interactions
    • J2 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor
    • J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
    • L - Industrial Organization
    • O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth

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