Foreign Ownership Restrictions: A Numerical Approach |
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Authors: | Bilgehan Karabay Gernot Pulverer Ewa Weinmüller |
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Affiliation: | (1) Research and Monetary Policy Department, The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Istiklal cad., No. 10, Ulus, 06100 Ankara, Turkey;(2) Institute for Analysis and Scientific Computing, Vienna University of Technology, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10, 1040 Wien, Austria |
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Abstract: | In this paper, we analyze the reason behind the use of foreign ownership restrictions on inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). We extend the results developed in Karabay (2005) by changing the condition on share distribution in the model. Due to this change, we are able to analyze the political economy aspect of this restrictive policy, i.e., we can study the effect of the host government’s welfare preference on the optimal foreign ownership restriction. Since the analytical solution to the optimal share restriction policy cannot be specified in general, we use a numerical approach based on collocation to approximate the solution to the problem. Within this framework, under certain conditions, it turns out that the rent extraction-efficiency trade-off is sharper the less the host government favors the local firm. We show that not only economic factors but also political factors play an important role in the determination of the foreign ownership restrictions. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and are not necessarily reflective of views of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey. All errors are our own. |
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Keywords: | Ownership Multinationals Asymmetric information Regulation Singular boundary value problems in ODEs Collocation methods |
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