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Globalization of the World Economy: What Happened in 1985?

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This paper brings forward a three-country model to analyze the internationalization process in the age of globalization. It is shown that investment of one company increases not only the incentive to invest in another country for every national competitor but for third country's companies as well. That results from the adjustment of the host country's companies which react to their shrinking market share by reducing output and raising the price of their goods. Some host country's companies exit the market. The results are used to explain the surge of foreign direct investment since the mid-1980s.

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  • Kleinert, Jörn, 2000. "Globalization of the World Economy: What Happened in 1985?," Kiel Working Papers 969, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
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    Keywords

    general equilibrium; globalization; multinational enterprises;
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    JEL classification:

    • F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
    • F21 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements
    • F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business

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