Foreign Direct Investment in Services and the Domestic Market for Expertise
A growing body of evidence suggests that the close availability of diverse business services is important for economic growth. Producer services such as managerial and engineering consulting can provide specialized knowledge to help domestic firms develop at lower unit cost. But these intermediate services are often nontraded, or costly to trade, which may be one reason that cities and industrial complexes form and economic performance differs across regions. Because services are costly to trade, foreign services are best transferred through foreign direct investment. This has important implications for public policy. Policies that affect foreign direct investment differ considerably from those that affect trade in goods. The authors develop a model of services, results from which show that: A) Liberalizing restraints on inward foreign direct investment has a powerful positive impact on the income and welfare of the importing country. The impact is much stronger than in traditional competitive models of trade in goods. B) Policies to protect domestic skilled labor against competition from imported services can have the perverse effect of lowering returns to domestic skilled labor-because while imported services economize on the use of domestic skilled labor (compared with domestic service industries), the positive effects on scale and productivity in the downstream industry can be powerful enough that the real wages of domestic skilled labor rise after the liberalization of foreign direct investment in service industries. In other words, domestic skilled labor and foreign direct investment are partial-equilibrium substitutes in the model but are typically general-equilibrium complements. C)The increase in the variety of imported services leads to increased total factor productivity in downstream industries, but the relative impact on downstream industries depends on how intensively they use intermediate services. The differential in effects on productivity in the production of final goods can be strong enough that permitting foreign direct investment can actually affect whether a good is exported rather than being imported. Policymakers should be aware that protection of a domestic service industry affects different constituencies differently. Although domestic capital owners may be adversely affected by foreign direct investment, domestic skilled workers in the industry are likely to see demand for their skills-and their real wages-rise. Moreover, downstream industries that use the service unambiguously benefit from foreign direct investment and their expansion can be surprisingly strong.
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AGGREGATE SUPPLY ASSETS AVERAGE COSTS BASE YEAR CD COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE COMPETITIVE MODELS CONSUMER PRICE INDEX CONSUMERS CONTRACTUAL ARRANGEMENTS COST FUNCTIONS DECISION MAKING DIMINISHING RETURNS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMIC THEORY ECONOMICS ECONOMICS LITERATURE ELASTICITIES ELASTICITY ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION EQUILIBRIUM EQUILIBRIUM MODELS EXTERNALITIES EXTERNALITY FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FINANCIAL SERVICES FIXED COSTS FIXED PRICES GDP GROWTH RATE HUMAN CAPITAL IMPERFECT SUBSTITUTES IMPORTS INCOME INCREASING RETURNS INCREASING RETURNS TO SCALE INTEREST RATE INTERMEDIATE GOODS INTERMEDIATE INPUTS LABOR INPUTS LABOR MARKETS LAWS MARGINAL COST MARGINAL COSTS MARGINAL PRODUCT MARGINAL PRODUCTIVITY MARGINAL REVENUE MARKET DISTORTIONS MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION NATIONAL INCOME NET EXPORTS OIL OPTIMIZATION POLICY RESEARCH POSITIVE EFFECTS PRIVATE COSTS PRODUCERS PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION PRODUCTION FUNCTION PRODUCTIVITY PRODUCTIVITY INCREASES PUBLIC POLICY REAL PRICES REAL WAGES RETIREMENT RETURNS TO SCALE SAVINGS SCALE ECONOMIES SCALE EFFECT SUBSTITUTION EFFECT SURPLUS VALUE TARIFF BARRIERS TAX REVENUES TERMS OF TRADE TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY TRADE BALANCE TRANSACTIONS COSTS TRANSITION ECONOMIES UNEMPLOYMENT URUGUAY ROUND WAGE RIGIDITIES WEALTH WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION AGGREGATE SUPPLY ASSETS AVERAGE COSTS BASE YEAR CD COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE COMPETITIVE MODELS CONSUMER PRICE INDEX CONSUMERS CONTRACTUAL ARRANGEMENTS COST FUNCTIONS DECISION MAKING DIMINISHING RETURNS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMIC THEORY ECONOMICS ECONOMICS LITERATURE ELASTICITIES ELASTICITY ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION EQUILIBRIUM EQUILIBRIUM MODELS EXTERNALITIES EXTERNALITY FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FINANCIAL SERVICES FIXED COSTS FIXED PRICES GDP GROWTH RATE HUMAN CAPITAL IMPERFECT SUBSTITUTES IMPORTS INCOME INCREASING RETURNS INCREASING RETURNS TO SCALE INTEREST RATE INTERMEDIATE GOODS INTERMEDIATE INPUTS LABOR INPUTS LABOR MARKETS LAWS MARGINAL COST MARGINAL COSTS MARGINAL PRODUCT MARGINAL PRODUCTIVITY MARGINAL REVENUE MARKET DISTORTIONS MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION NATIONAL INCOME NET EXPORTS OIL OPTIMIZATION POLICY RESEARCH POSITIVE EFFECTS PRIVATE COSTS PRODUCERS PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION PRODUCTION FUNCTION PRODUCTIVITY PRODUCTIVITY INCREASES PUBLIC POLICY REAL PRICES REAL WAGES RETIREMENT RETURNS TO SCALE SAVINGS SCALE ECONOMIES SCALE EFFECT SUBSTITUTION EFFECT SURPLUS VALUE TARIFF BARRIERS TAX REVENUES TERMS OF TRADE TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY TRADE BALANCE TRANSACTIONS COSTS TRANSITION ECONOMIES UNEMPLOYMENT URUGUAY ROUND WAGE RIGIDITIES WEALTH WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION |
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AGGREGATE SUPPLY ASSETS AVERAGE COSTS BASE YEAR CD COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE COMPETITIVE MODELS CONSUMER PRICE INDEX CONSUMERS CONTRACTUAL ARRANGEMENTS COST FUNCTIONS DECISION MAKING DIMINISHING RETURNS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMIC THEORY ECONOMICS ECONOMICS LITERATURE ELASTICITIES ELASTICITY ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION EQUILIBRIUM EQUILIBRIUM MODELS EXTERNALITIES EXTERNALITY FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FINANCIAL SERVICES FIXED COSTS FIXED PRICES GDP GROWTH RATE HUMAN CAPITAL IMPERFECT SUBSTITUTES IMPORTS INCOME INCREASING RETURNS INCREASING RETURNS TO SCALE INTEREST RATE INTERMEDIATE GOODS INTERMEDIATE INPUTS LABOR INPUTS LABOR MARKETS LAWS MARGINAL COST MARGINAL COSTS MARGINAL PRODUCT MARGINAL PRODUCTIVITY MARGINAL REVENUE MARKET DISTORTIONS MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION NATIONAL INCOME NET EXPORTS OIL OPTIMIZATION POLICY RESEARCH POSITIVE EFFECTS PRIVATE COSTS PRODUCERS PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION PRODUCTION FUNCTION PRODUCTIVITY PRODUCTIVITY INCREASES PUBLIC POLICY REAL PRICES REAL WAGES RETIREMENT RETURNS TO SCALE SAVINGS SCALE ECONOMIES SCALE EFFECT SUBSTITUTION EFFECT SURPLUS VALUE TARIFF BARRIERS TAX REVENUES TERMS OF TRADE TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY TRADE BALANCE TRANSACTIONS COSTS TRANSITION ECONOMIES UNEMPLOYMENT URUGUAY ROUND WAGE RIGIDITIES WEALTH WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION AGGREGATE SUPPLY ASSETS AVERAGE COSTS BASE YEAR CD COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE COMPETITIVE MODELS CONSUMER PRICE INDEX CONSUMERS CONTRACTUAL ARRANGEMENTS COST FUNCTIONS DECISION MAKING DIMINISHING RETURNS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMIC THEORY ECONOMICS ECONOMICS LITERATURE ELASTICITIES ELASTICITY ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION EQUILIBRIUM EQUILIBRIUM MODELS EXTERNALITIES EXTERNALITY FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FINANCIAL SERVICES FIXED COSTS FIXED PRICES GDP GROWTH RATE HUMAN CAPITAL IMPERFECT SUBSTITUTES IMPORTS INCOME INCREASING RETURNS INCREASING RETURNS TO SCALE INTEREST RATE INTERMEDIATE GOODS INTERMEDIATE INPUTS LABOR INPUTS LABOR MARKETS LAWS MARGINAL COST MARGINAL COSTS MARGINAL PRODUCT MARGINAL PRODUCTIVITY MARGINAL REVENUE MARKET DISTORTIONS MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION NATIONAL INCOME NET EXPORTS OIL OPTIMIZATION POLICY RESEARCH POSITIVE EFFECTS PRIVATE COSTS PRODUCERS PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION PRODUCTION FUNCTION PRODUCTIVITY PRODUCTIVITY INCREASES PUBLIC POLICY REAL PRICES REAL WAGES RETIREMENT RETURNS TO SCALE SAVINGS SCALE ECONOMIES SCALE EFFECT SUBSTITUTION EFFECT SURPLUS VALUE TARIFF BARRIERS TAX REVENUES TERMS OF TRADE TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY TRADE BALANCE TRANSACTIONS COSTS TRANSITION ECONOMIES UNEMPLOYMENT URUGUAY ROUND WAGE RIGIDITIES WEALTH WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION Markusen, James Rutherford, Thomas F. Tarr, David Foreign Direct Investment in Services and the Domestic Market for Expertise |
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A growing body of evidence suggests that
the close availability of diverse business services is
important for economic growth. Producer services such as
managerial and engineering consulting can provide
specialized knowledge to help domestic firms develop at
lower unit cost. But these intermediate services are often
nontraded, or costly to trade, which may be one reason that
cities and industrial complexes form and economic
performance differs across regions. Because services are
costly to trade, foreign services are best transferred
through foreign direct investment. This has important
implications for public policy. Policies that affect foreign
direct investment differ considerably from those that affect
trade in goods. The authors develop a model of services,
results from which show that: A) Liberalizing restraints on
inward foreign direct investment has a powerful positive
impact on the income and welfare of the importing country.
The impact is much stronger than in traditional competitive
models of trade in goods. B) Policies to protect domestic
skilled labor against competition from imported services can
have the perverse effect of lowering returns to domestic
skilled labor-because while imported services economize on
the use of domestic skilled labor (compared with domestic
service industries), the positive effects on scale and
productivity in the downstream industry can be powerful
enough that the real wages of domestic skilled labor rise
after the liberalization of foreign direct investment in
service industries. In other words, domestic skilled labor
and foreign direct investment are partial-equilibrium
substitutes in the model but are typically
general-equilibrium complements. C)The increase in the
variety of imported services leads to increased total factor
productivity in downstream industries, but the relative
impact on downstream industries depends on how intensively
they use intermediate services. The differential in effects
on productivity in the production of final goods can be
strong enough that permitting foreign direct investment can
actually affect whether a good is exported rather than being
imported. Policymakers should be aware that protection of a
domestic service industry affects different constituencies
differently. Although domestic capital owners may be
adversely affected by foreign direct investment, domestic
skilled workers in the industry are likely to see demand for
their skills-and their real wages-rise. Moreover, downstream
industries that use the service unambiguously benefit from
foreign direct investment and their expansion can be
surprisingly strong. |
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AGGREGATE SUPPLY ASSETS AVERAGE COSTS BASE YEAR CD COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE COMPETITIVE MODELS CONSUMER PRICE INDEX CONSUMERS CONTRACTUAL ARRANGEMENTS COST FUNCTIONS DECISION MAKING DIMINISHING RETURNS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMIC THEORY ECONOMICS ECONOMICS LITERATURE ELASTICITIES ELASTICITY ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION EQUILIBRIUM EQUILIBRIUM MODELS EXTERNALITIES EXTERNALITY FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FINANCIAL SERVICES FIXED COSTS FIXED PRICES GDP GROWTH RATE HUMAN CAPITAL IMPERFECT SUBSTITUTES IMPORTS INCOME INCREASING RETURNS INCREASING RETURNS TO SCALE INTEREST RATE INTERMEDIATE GOODS INTERMEDIATE INPUTS LABOR INPUTS LABOR MARKETS LAWS MARGINAL COST MARGINAL COSTS MARGINAL PRODUCT MARGINAL PRODUCTIVITY MARGINAL REVENUE MARKET DISTORTIONS MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION NATIONAL INCOME NET EXPORTS OIL OPTIMIZATION POLICY RESEARCH POSITIVE EFFECTS PRIVATE COSTS PRODUCERS PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION PRODUCTION FUNCTION PRODUCTIVITY PRODUCTIVITY INCREASES PUBLIC POLICY REAL PRICES REAL WAGES RETIREMENT RETURNS TO SCALE SAVINGS SCALE ECONOMIES SCALE EFFECT SUBSTITUTION EFFECT SURPLUS VALUE TARIFF BARRIERS TAX REVENUES TERMS OF TRADE TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY TRADE BALANCE TRANSACTIONS COSTS TRANSITION ECONOMIES UNEMPLOYMENT URUGUAY ROUND WAGE RIGIDITIES WEALTH WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION |
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Markusen, James Rutherford, Thomas F. Tarr, David |
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Markusen, James Rutherford, Thomas F. Tarr, David |
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Markusen, James |
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Foreign Direct Investment in Services and the Domestic Market for Expertise |
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Foreign Direct Investment in Services and the Domestic Market for Expertise |
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Foreign Direct Investment in Services and the Domestic Market for Expertise |
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Foreign Direct Investment in Services and the Domestic Market for Expertise |
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Foreign Direct Investment in Services and the Domestic Market for Expertise |
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foreign direct investment in services and the domestic market for expertise |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2000-08 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/08/443563/foreign-direct-investment-services-domestic-market-expertise http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19798 |
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dig-okr-10986197982021-04-23T14:03:46Z Foreign Direct Investment in Services and the Domestic Market for Expertise Markusen, James Rutherford, Thomas F. Tarr, David AGGREGATE SUPPLY ASSETS AVERAGE COSTS BASE YEAR CD COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE COMPETITIVE MODELS CONSUMER PRICE INDEX CONSUMERS CONTRACTUAL ARRANGEMENTS COST FUNCTIONS DECISION MAKING DIMINISHING RETURNS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE ECONOMIC THEORY ECONOMICS ECONOMICS LITERATURE ELASTICITIES ELASTICITY ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION EQUILIBRIUM EQUILIBRIUM MODELS EXTERNALITIES EXTERNALITY FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FINANCIAL SERVICES FIXED COSTS FIXED PRICES GDP GROWTH RATE HUMAN CAPITAL IMPERFECT SUBSTITUTES IMPORTS INCOME INCREASING RETURNS INCREASING RETURNS TO SCALE INTEREST RATE INTERMEDIATE GOODS INTERMEDIATE INPUTS LABOR INPUTS LABOR MARKETS LAWS MARGINAL COST MARGINAL COSTS MARGINAL PRODUCT MARGINAL PRODUCTIVITY MARGINAL REVENUE MARKET DISTORTIONS MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION NATIONAL INCOME NET EXPORTS OIL OPTIMIZATION POLICY RESEARCH POSITIVE EFFECTS PRIVATE COSTS PRODUCERS PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION PRODUCTION FUNCTION PRODUCTIVITY PRODUCTIVITY INCREASES PUBLIC POLICY REAL PRICES REAL WAGES RETIREMENT RETURNS TO SCALE SAVINGS SCALE ECONOMIES SCALE EFFECT SUBSTITUTION EFFECT SURPLUS VALUE TARIFF BARRIERS TAX REVENUES TERMS OF TRADE TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY TRADE BALANCE TRANSACTIONS COSTS TRANSITION ECONOMIES UNEMPLOYMENT URUGUAY ROUND WAGE RIGIDITIES WEALTH WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION A growing body of evidence suggests that the close availability of diverse business services is important for economic growth. Producer services such as managerial and engineering consulting can provide specialized knowledge to help domestic firms develop at lower unit cost. But these intermediate services are often nontraded, or costly to trade, which may be one reason that cities and industrial complexes form and economic performance differs across regions. Because services are costly to trade, foreign services are best transferred through foreign direct investment. This has important implications for public policy. Policies that affect foreign direct investment differ considerably from those that affect trade in goods. The authors develop a model of services, results from which show that: A) Liberalizing restraints on inward foreign direct investment has a powerful positive impact on the income and welfare of the importing country. The impact is much stronger than in traditional competitive models of trade in goods. B) Policies to protect domestic skilled labor against competition from imported services can have the perverse effect of lowering returns to domestic skilled labor-because while imported services economize on the use of domestic skilled labor (compared with domestic service industries), the positive effects on scale and productivity in the downstream industry can be powerful enough that the real wages of domestic skilled labor rise after the liberalization of foreign direct investment in service industries. In other words, domestic skilled labor and foreign direct investment are partial-equilibrium substitutes in the model but are typically general-equilibrium complements. C)The increase in the variety of imported services leads to increased total factor productivity in downstream industries, but the relative impact on downstream industries depends on how intensively they use intermediate services. The differential in effects on productivity in the production of final goods can be strong enough that permitting foreign direct investment can actually affect whether a good is exported rather than being imported. Policymakers should be aware that protection of a domestic service industry affects different constituencies differently. Although domestic capital owners may be adversely affected by foreign direct investment, domestic skilled workers in the industry are likely to see demand for their skills-and their real wages-rise. Moreover, downstream industries that use the service unambiguously benefit from foreign direct investment and their expansion can be surprisingly strong. 2014-08-27T21:11:56Z 2014-08-27T21:11:56Z 2000-08 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/08/443563/foreign-direct-investment-services-domestic-market-expertise http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19798 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 2413 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research |