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Asha Sundaram: Foreign Direct Investment, Geography and Welfare

Eggers Hall, 341

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The Moynihan Institute and the program for Trade, Development and Political Economy are hosting an in person talk with Asha Sundaram of the University of Auckland.

"We study the impact of FDI on domestic welfare using a model of internal trade with variable markups that incorporates intranational transport costs.  The model allows us to disentangle the various channels through which FDI affects welfare. We apply the model to the case of Ethiopian manufacturing, which received considerable amounts of FDI during our period of study. We find substantial gains from the presence of foreign firms, both in the local market and in other connected markets in the country. FDI, however, resulted in a modest worsening of allocative efficiency because foreign firms tend to have significantly higher markups than domestic firms.  We report consistent findings from our empirical analysis, which utilizes microdata on manufacturing firms, information on FDI projects, and geospatial data on improvements in the road network."

AUTHORS 
Asha Sundaram (University of Auckland)
Jose Asturias (U.S. Census Bureau)
Marco Sanfilippo (University of Torino and Collagio Carlo Alberto)

Category

Social Science and Public Policy

Type

Talks

Region

Campus

Open to

Public

Organizer

MAX-Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

Contact

Moynihan Events Team
315.443.9248

gtsaouss@syr.edu

Accessibility

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