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Multinationals and industrial policy

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  • Giorgio Barba Navaretti
  • Anthony J. Venables

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Are there benefits to the host country from multinational investments? Does potential value from these investments make active industrial policy worthwhile? We answer the first question affirmatively, having reviewed economic principles and evidence concerning the effects of projects locating in (or not being off-shored from) a country. On the second, policy can have a limited effect in influencing location decisions, but it is doubtful that it is cost effective. Implementation faces lack of information, risk of capture, and, in many cases, non-rigorous processes. Competition between jurisdictions means that much policy is investment diversion not investment creation. There is a case for supra-national controls (as with EU State Aid regulations), for policy to be used only for well-defined market failures, and for better implementation and more rigorous ex ante appraisal and ex post evaluation. Copyright 2013, Oxford University Press.

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  • Giorgio Barba Navaretti & Anthony J. Venables, 2013. "Multinationals and industrial policy," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Oxford University Press and Oxford Review of Economic Policy Limited, vol. 29(2), pages 361-382, SUMMER.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:oxford:v:29:y:2013:i:2:p:361-382
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    1. Marta Anna G TZ, 2015. "Pursuing FDI policy in the EU Member States and their policy space," Journal of Economics and Political Economy, EconSciences Journals, vol. 2(2), pages 290-308, June.
    2. Marta Anna GÖTZ, 2015. "Pursuing FDI policy in the EU – Member States and their policy space," Journal of Economics and Political Economy, KSP Journals, vol. 2(2), pages 290-308, June.
    3. Nicolai J Foss & Ram Mudambi & Samuele Murtinu, 2019. "Taxing the multinational enterprise: On the forced redesign of global value chains and other inefficiencies," Journal of International Business Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Academy of International Business, vol. 50(9), pages 1644-1655, December.
    4. Xue, Jiashun & Poon, Jessie & Yang, Yu & Ji, Qiang, 2024. "Effect of green industrial policy on China's outward renewable energy investment," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 138(C).

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