IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/pal/jintbs/v20y1989i2p280-295.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Total Protection: A New Measure of the Impact of Government Interventions on Investment Profitability

Author

Listed:
  • Stephen Guisinger

    (University of Texas at Dallas)

Abstract

Host country interventions in goods markets (e.g., tariffs and quotas) and factor markets (e.g., tax holidays and training grants for workers) are recognized as having substantial effects on the profitability of foreign direct investments. This study proposes two new comprehensive measures—total protection and an internationalized version of the marginal effective rate of taxation—that incorporate all government interventions in a single, easily understood common denominator readily applicable to empirical research. Empirical estimates of the total protection measure for Europe suggest that for new investments government interventions in factor market increase profitability more than trade interventions.© 1989 JIBS. Journal of International Business Studies (1989) 20, 280–295

Suggested Citation

  • Stephen Guisinger, 1989. "Total Protection: A New Measure of the Impact of Government Interventions on Investment Profitability," Journal of International Business Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Academy of International Business, vol. 20(2), pages 280-295, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:jintbs:v:20:y:1989:i:2:p:280-295
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jibs/journal/v20/n2/pdf/8490365a.pdf
    File Function: Link to full text PDF
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jibs/journal/v20/n2/full/8490365a.html
    File Function: Link to full text HTML
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Fiona Kun Yao & Luqun Xie & Jiatao Li & Mingrui Xu, 2023. "Subnational-level government influence and FDI location choices: The moderating roles of resource dependence relations," Journal of International Business Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Academy of International Business, vol. 54(6), pages 1027-1054, August.
    2. Webster, Allan & Ayatakshi, Sukanya, 2013. "The effect of fossil energy and other environmental taxes on profit incentives for change in an open economy: Evidence from the UK," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 61(C), pages 1422-1431.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:jintbs:v:20:y:1989:i:2:p:280-295. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.